First and foremost, we love healthy food that is delicious.
We believe as farmer poet Wendell Berry says, “eating is an agricultural act”, but we also believe that we have a responsibility to care for the land and animals who feed us. Nature and plants heal us. Food is medicine.
While seeking answers and solutions to an autoimmune issue, our Founder Michele Logan researched and discovered that the way that most “healthy” food was grown on a large scale really was not what we common folk believed to be true. Labels on organic food really don’t tell the whole story about the food we put in our bodies. There's a saying that we are what we eat ate. This is also true for the health of the soil that plants are grown in.
In 2015, Michele and her family moved to the Somerset Hills of New Jersey. She felt a calling to combine her love for food with healing the land that was allowed to go fallow after being farmed more than ninety years ago. An unsuccessful successionary forest grew, and choices made by previous owners and neighbors led to an imbalance of invasive plants, soil erosion, and poor soil health in the forest.
We are a regenerative forest farm on a ridge above the Raritan River in the Somerset Hills of New Jersey.
Our goal is to get back to basics practicing sustainable, regenerative agriculture and permaculture principles to heal the land, and grow nutrient dense, hyper-seasonal specialty produce that is inherently of this place. We farm in nature’s image, without the use of GMOs, pesticides, fungicides, herbicides, glyphosate, or other chemical inputs. We utilize a rotational pastured plan for our multi-species flock with the aim of holistically healing the land, and building soil health, which ultimately produces the healthiest food possible. We also believe in a high standard of care for the animals who feed us, and a living wage for the farmers who grow our food. This is food the way God intended it to be.
As we continue to build our farm infrastructure, we are also building our soil, our flock, our gardens, permaculture terraces, mushroom yards, and silvopastures. It is our intention to inspire others to do what they can to incorporate the philosophy of interdependence in their own life, even if they live in an apartment. By supporting local agriculture that is working to heal our land and rebalance our ecosystem, you are bringing the best food possible into your home to ultimately heal yourself and your family.