At Regeneration Farm we are building a functioning wetland permaculture farm using an agroforestry alley cropping system. We provide our local communities with a healthy source of local food, plants and knowledge. We direct market via farmstands, sell to restaurants, process our crops and animals into value added products at certified local kitchens and sell through local foods hubs. We run our farm on the triple bottom line of economic, environmental and social sustainability, using as our strategy a diversified approach of (1) food production, (2) educational workshops and events, and (3) sales of regenerative and edible plants. This business format is set within the context of restoring our two acre plot of agricultural land to provide maximum environmental benefit (including carbon sequestration via topsoil creation and tree planting), ecosystem health and on-farm productivity. In 2019 Regeneration Farm we will lay our agroforestry system groundwork, installing tree crops and long-term farm infrastructure while running a direct market farm growing organic vegetables and pastured pork.
Our Methods
We produce the highest quality, nutrient dense, healthy foods. Regeneration Farm is committed to long term regeneration of degraded and underused farmland, ecosystems, soil, local economies and healthy food systems. We run our farm with current sustainable agriculture best practices to ensure these goals are met. We do not till, always cover over barren soil, rotate our crops, never spray pesticides, herbicides, or any chemical or non-organic fertilizers or materials. We follow organic practices, holistically rotate our animals for pasture rehabilitation and fertilization, keep bees, cover crop our fields and plant a diversity of vegetables, fruit, herbs, flowers, trees and medicinal plants. We utilize multi-layer plantings of both annual and perennial crops together in an agroforestry system to increase our on farm biodiversity, soil health, and our moisture and nutrient retention. Through this system we diversify what we produce, add resilience to our farm business, extend our harvest seasons and create beneficial microclimates for our products to grow. We hope you will join us in regeneration!
What We Value
It is our mission to produce healthy food and plants for sale while building a diverse farm ecosystem and educating about landscape regeneration, sustainability, carbon sequestration and resilient farming in the face of climate change.
We seek to create ecologically abundant, profitable and resilient farms and local economies that model and educate about viable and replicable responses to the environmental, social and economic crisis of our times.
At Regeneration Farm we place the utmost value in our family and community. We greatly value health, both human, environmental, and global. Additionally, self-determination and environmental justice drive what we do. Each of the following also plays a central role in how we operate and how we define our values: cultivating humanity; building resilience; taking action; rooting in a place; striving for balance; acting with love.
We seek to create ecologically abundant, profitable and resilient farms and local economies that model and educate about viable and replicable responses to the environmental, social and economic crisis of our times.
At Regeneration Farm we place the utmost value in our family and community. We greatly value health, both human, environmental, and global. Additionally, self-determination and environmental justice drive what we do. Each of the following also plays a central role in how we operate and how we define our values: cultivating humanity; building resilience; taking action; rooting in a place; striving for balance; acting with love.
Some Specifics
Hogs are Heritage breeds purchased as weaners and pastured in an intensive rotational grazing pattern from March until October based on Holistic Management best practices utilizing Premier1 solar powered electric fencing. The hogs will be stocked at a humane density of 20 or less per acre and receive a combination of organic feed, food/farm scraps from our farm and surrounding farms, expired organic dairy products from Central Coop in Seattle and spent brewers grain from local Woodinville breweries.
Vegetable production will occur in fields and high tunnels. Soil fertility is high and we will be crop rotating by growing in fields that have not been used since 2017 hog rotation. Weed suppression tarps are already in place on 2019 growing fields. They will be removed one month prior to planting allowing surface weed seeds to germinate before being killed back by replacing tarps for two-three weeks before planting. On one field we are trialing a sheet mulching technique where, after removing our weed suppression tarp and allowing seed bank germination, sheet mulch with a base layer of 40 lb paper is top dressed with arborist chips to build soil over winter while continuing to smother weeds. We will plant into the soil layer beneath this mulch in spring. We will do no traditional tiling on our farm. Pest control will be done with organic methods primarily relying on anti-insect netting. Only organic seed is planted, with a large quantity of our farm seed coming from self-saved seed from previous years. We trial and grow a large number of heirloom varieties. Hogs will consume most of the farm waste and what they don't will be composted on-farm. All produce sold will conform to the USDA grades and standards.
Vegetable production will occur in fields and high tunnels. Soil fertility is high and we will be crop rotating by growing in fields that have not been used since 2017 hog rotation. Weed suppression tarps are already in place on 2019 growing fields. They will be removed one month prior to planting allowing surface weed seeds to germinate before being killed back by replacing tarps for two-three weeks before planting. On one field we are trialing a sheet mulching technique where, after removing our weed suppression tarp and allowing seed bank germination, sheet mulch with a base layer of 40 lb paper is top dressed with arborist chips to build soil over winter while continuing to smother weeds. We will plant into the soil layer beneath this mulch in spring. We will do no traditional tiling on our farm. Pest control will be done with organic methods primarily relying on anti-insect netting. Only organic seed is planted, with a large quantity of our farm seed coming from self-saved seed from previous years. We trial and grow a large number of heirloom varieties. Hogs will consume most of the farm waste and what they don't will be composted on-farm. All produce sold will conform to the USDA grades and standards.