Organic Farm & Orchards
This spring we’re expanding our organic farm to include over one half acre of Biodynamic food and flower cultivation.
Biodynamics: Biodynamic methods work to create a harmonious balance on the farm or garden and honour each individual element and every aspect as an indivisable and integral part of the entire system. They include organic practices such as crop rotation, recycling through composts and liquid manures, and increasing plant and animal bio diversity. Special plant, animal and mineral preparations are used as well. The wisdom of working with natures rhythmis are as plain as day. The influences of the sun, moon, stars and planets are seen as an esential aspect of our experience here on earth and are treated with great consideration. Naturaly these methods and practaces lead to a reduction of pests and diseases in plants and animals, and an increase in the nutritive and life giving value of the food produced.
This long term project will be the root of our agricultural progam. Serving as the fertile ground through which we ‘ll feed the mind, body and soul of our students, guests and community members.
“But food, as we have seen, is far more than a simple product to be consumed: it is happiness, identity, culture, pleasure, conviviality, nutrition, local economy, survival.” – Carlo Petrini, Slow Food Nation