Cultivation

Techniques and Goal: Light Dep and Full-Term cultivation, grown using Natural Farming and organic practices. We rely on materials from our own land and supplemental organic amendments to support a balanced, microbially rich, nutritionally diverse ecosystem that allows each cultivar to fully express its genetic potential. Our overall goal is to create an "island" of biodiversity in our garden, in which we will use to facilitate the spread of native flora and fauna to the rest of the 11.5 acre parcel and beyond. We are constantly surveying the property, observing and learning our native species and how they interact with each other and the environment. We hope to one day restore the land here that has endured decades of abuse due to logging and carelessness/lack of respect for the property. We spend many hours exploring Trinity County backroads learning native species and collecting native seed, which we then spread throughout our property to germinate and naturalize. We actively battle invasive species on the property, and use any plant matter from doing so to ferment into fertilizer to then feed back to the garden and native plants. A major part of natural farming is cultivating microbes from healthy resilient ecosystems and spreading them to less diverse un-balanced soils. We do this by collecting from different fertile and biodiverse areas of the property, propagating using a simple starch source, and spraying in liquid form to inoculate the phyllosphere and rhizosphere of our garden and property. Doing so gives a true, deeper expression of the terroir here. Representative of both the plants full genetic expression, and our microclimates environmental and energetical influence on the plants.