As a highly diversified farm, we are always revisiting how to best work with the land. We are guided by what will provide the greatest benefit to our diversified orchards over the long term.
Our decisions are largely driven by our primary land management goals, which include building soils, capturing and utilizing water on the landscape, and, of course, putting our orchard trees in the best possible situation to produce a valuable crop.
We encourage pollinator habitat within our tree rows and act to maximize this habitat as much as practically possible. We also plant tree species other than our main crop trees for the many benefits they provide our orchards, including dappled shade, protection from prevailing winds, and beneficial insect habitat.
We love the natural world, we love growing food, we love eating food, we love sharing food with other people.
Our agricultural practices support our guiding principles as stewards and facilitators of our land, where we aspire to grow food and flowers that benefit our bodies, our customers, and the land itself. We take pride in the fact that we grow our food without the use of chemical products and that our agricultural production systems facilitate ecological diversity.
“Adopt the pace of nature. Her secret is patience.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
