Guide

How to grow, harvest, and sell a wide diversity of vegetables, fruits, and nuts in thriving gardens where wildlife flourishes and soil becomes richer year after year.

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Under Construction

This guide is a work in progress.

In the last few years, I have learned uncommon methods for growing richly organic food without fertilizers or pesticides. I've learned from others. I’ve practiced and observed their methods for myself.

As I establish my farm and scale it up in these next several years, I hope this guide evolves into a valuable free resource. I hope it helps new farmers find nourishment in their lives—empowering them to work in harmony with nature, feed their communities vitally organic produce, and generate stable income.

Background

A few years after beginning my agricultural studies, I discovered Syntropic Agroforestry. This practice involves growing a diversity of plants, including trees, and “chop and dropping” the plants periodically to accelerate the system through succession (regeneration of soil life). Different flowers, fruits, capabilities, heights, and lifetimes are all selected to create a stable and balanced ecosystem that increases in fertility year after year, without amendments.

Known by different names—regenerative ag, rotational grazing, syntropic agroforestry, cover cropping, chop and drop, forest gardening, etc—many have shown that growing diverse plants and periodically culling a portion of the vegetation with tools or with livestock does wonders for land. It accelerates the fertility and health of the soil and local ecosystem.

Introduction

This guide will share how I grow, harvest, and sell produce. This is just one way to farm. This method may appeal to you if you (a) love nature and want to be around more wildlife (b) enjoy using your hands and being physically active (c) want to grow a wide diversity of produce (d) have a strong interest in climate action and carbon sequestration.

This method of farming is unusual. In this method, food is grown in a diverse ecosystem (instead of neat beds or homogenous fields).

Todo Nov 2024: Add picture of sand raised bed.

Regenerative Practices

Todo Nov 2024: move practices from about page here.

Looking Forward

I hope my farm becomes an inspiring demonstration of growing food in harmony with nature. I hope you, others, and I enjoy this guide as it unfolds 😌