Our Story

What if I told you the Father, Mother, Daughter, and Son-In-Law live together in the same house? One may think that this is a setup for a sitcom or a throwback to living more than a century ago. Well, we're here to tell you, on our family farm, we all live in the same house!

Each of us has a slightly different background when it comes to farming and gardening. But we all had one thing in common, our dream to live a healthy life by growing and producing our own food on a small-scale farm and sharing our harvest with the community.

We were given an opportunity to make this dream a reality in the spring of 2022. Every morning we're thankful to be waking up and seeing our loved ones in the kitchen, thanking the Lord for our blessings, and talking about what our goals are for the day.

Small-Scale Family Farm and Bakery

Setting Up Infrastructure

After moving in, we had to get the farm set up. First things first, John built a mobile chicken coop for pastured free-range eggs. We also use the chicken manure to make compost.

We live on the backside of a slope with few areas of flat land. To be able to fit 100-foot beds, we had to reshape our lower field. The soil is heavy clay, which is great for nutrients but it's terrible for compaction and growing vegetables. As our initial process, we brought in lots of organic matter and mixed it into the existing soil. We planted cover crops to help with the compaction, to add more organic matter to the soil, and to attract beneficial bugs. Cover crops are an ongoing process on the farm that never stops.

The cycles of nature

We love tasty food and vegtables, especially if they are chemical free. We made the decision that we will not be using any of the typical "cides", like pesticides, and rather than eliminating pests we attract beneficial and predatory insects to ensure there is a balace in the ecosystem. We know there is a risk we may lose some crops due to bad bugs and natural plant diseases. We're okay with that as part of the natural cycle on the fram.

We harvest in all four seasons by using a caterpiller tunnel. This allows us to warm up the environment during the cold winter months and to cool off our plants in the summer months. Everything grows better inside since we are able to manually regulate the seasons.

Hand made goodies

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