Know Where Your Food Comes From

Life gets easier when you know exactly where your food comes from.

We chose our specific land for several reasons: Class II soils which can produce crops, availability of clean water, unmet demand for locally produced, organic foods, and proximity to several urban markets. We knew North Florida was ready for real food!

Within five years of starting our farm we learned that we couldn’t do this all ourselves. We partner with other farms that we trust to ensure a year-round abundance of high quality food for your family.

Reducing Food Miles

“Organic” produce in the grocery stores travels thousands of miles, is likely imported from other countries, and may be weeks (or even months) out of the ground. Most fresh produce loses a great percentage of its nutrition content within a week after harvest.

During its trip it accumulates carbon costs that are never realized by the customer or vendor. Instead, these costs are left for the future generations to bear. 

Participating in a regenerative and local foodshed improves the region’s water quality and soil health, while promoting biodiversity and soil conservation, among many more ecological benefits. We believe in increasing awareness of the externalized costs of industrial, conventional agriculture which makes food appear cheaper in the grocery store, but places costs on our society and our health in ways that are more difficult to calculate.

Regenerative Farming

When we take care of the land, the land takes care of us! Since the beginning we’ve practiced the triple bottom line – the farm must be sustainable ecologically, socially, and economically to survive.  That means we must protect and improve our natural resources, pay the highest wages possible, and maintain the highest productivity and lowest costs possible. 

We grow everything in the soil that we’ve invested in for over a decade and use untreated, non-GMO seeds and planting stock. We want to demonstrate that organic and regenerative farming can be accomplished with respect to our ecological, human, and economic resources.

We utilize ancestral agricultural practices that originated from the local Potano and Alachua Seminoles peoples, as well as many other groups around the world. We believe everyone deserves nutritious food that is not contaminated with harmful petroleum-based inputs and instead comes from farming that doesn’t pollute our soil, aquifer, or surface water. It’s a necessity for the health and regeneration for the earth we grow on, and in return for our own health.

• Mechanical cultivation and mulching (with hay) are our primary weed control methods (no plastic here)
• Cover crops, compost and animal manure are used regularly to build soil
• Rotation grazing with our pigs
• Relay cropping helps us plant multiple crops on the same land each year
• We rely on our own transplants and direct seeding whenever possible
• Supporting other organic farmers and local mills by feeding all of our livestock organic soy-free feed