Field Notes
Growing Food with Integrity: The Key to Nourishing the Body, the Environment, and the Community
Recent studies suggest that the quality of soil in terms of quantity and variety of soil microbes affects the microbiome of the gut that is consuming them.
This means the healthier the soil is, the healthier the veggie is, and the more nutrients the consumer receives.
Every vegetable you buy from our farm will have been harvested within the past 24-48 hours. This is part of the effort to get the freshest produce to you so that you can get the full flavor and therefore the most amount of nutrients. We also carefully select seeds for flavorful varietals and ones that will thrive within our particular climate.
Better Earth: The Soul of the Soil
Many of our techniques on the farm come from the French market gardeners who were able to feed ALL of Paris back in the mid 19th century into the early 20th century. These market gardeners would grow on small amounts of land similar to ours. They grew very intensively and were able to do so because of their management practices.
When ready to sell, they'd harvest and load their produce into a wagon and bring it into the city. Then they'd load up their wagons with horse manure from the city and bring it back to the farm to spread on their fields (or to further compost it, then spread it).
This is how rural and urban communities can and should work together.