OUR STORY
REGeNeraTIVE AGRICULTURE
The farm is located in the countryside south of Buffalo NY, where regenerative and organic growing practices have been used for decades in vegetable production. We believe that healthy agri-ecosystems and soils make for vigorous, nutrient dense, and delicious crops which in turn nurture and fulfill those who consume them.
Through stewarding a healthy environment for plants, we allow them to grow naturally and at their own pace, responding to and synergizing with their environment; being shaped by it just as the environment is shaped by the plants. This idea is summarized well with the concept of “terroir”:
noun
the complete natural environment in which a particular good is produced, including factors such as the soil, topography, and climate.
the characteristic taste and flavor imparted to a good by the environment in which it is produced.
ter·roir
/terˈwär/
In our cannabis crop, we have tried to keep things close to nature so that this expression of our ecosystem can come through in our dried flower. We do this through using various regenerative farming techniques, some of which are detailed below.
LIVING SOIl
Our outdoor native soil is host to a community of beneficial life including mycorrhizal fungi and aerobic bacteria. We support these communities by providing organic matter and constant plant cover on the soil. We farm strictly without the use of synthetic herbicides, pesticides, and fertilizers like nutrient salts which all negatively impact organisms living in the soil including fungi, bacteria, microbes, and insects.
No Till
Our cannabis field is not tilled so that soil structure can develop over time and so mycelium (fungal networks) and sensitive microbiological life can remain intact season to season.
Compost
Compost is made on the farm from our vegetables, cow manure, and woodchips. It is our main input that replenishes what is taken off the farm from crop harvest.
Cover cropping
Cover cropping is important because it keeps the soil covered for healthy soil life, de-compacts the soil with plant roots, and provides green manure at the end of the cover crop’s life cycle. Nitrogen fixing legumes are included in the cover crop to fix atmospheric nitrogen into the soil for vegetative plant growth.
Companion Planting
Our cannabis plants enjoy the company of clover, a nitrogen fixer and soil de-compactor, in between rows during the growing season. Nitrogen fixing plants ally with rhizobium bacteria to create root nodules, the site of nitrogen fixation where the bacteria supplies nitrogen to the plant in exchange for nutrients from photosynthesis.
