Our Growing Practices
Broadly speaking, our growing practices include regenerative, traditional and organic methods as we explore what sustainable agriculture has the potential to be. We incorporate Permaculture principles in our designs where we are able and as we learn new ways to do so each year. We try to wake up and go to sleep every day acknowledging and giving thanks to those who share this place with us. They include populations of elk, deer, bobcat, coyote, eagles, hawks, ravens, owls, songbirds, rodents, arthropods and soil organisms of all sorts.
- Combination of no-till and tilled garden beds
- Cover crops and crop rotations
- No use of synthetic biocides or fertilizers
- Modest use of naturally derived and organically certified sprays. Ask us for specifics.
- Drip Irrigation for water conservation
- Growing a diversity of native plants, fruits, nuts and vegetables
- Native plant propagation
- Habitat restoration
- Tree guilds and polyculture beds(in progress 2009)
Examples of our growing methods include: