About OUr Services
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Regenerating Lands & Starting Farms
Our services and products help people in our community regenerate degraded land by designing and managing projects for removing invasive vegetation, reducing compaction layers, increasing carbon sequestration and preparing land for planting.
Our plans help clients actualize the vision for their land, communicate action plans with contractors and organize onsite teams. Our farm design software helps our clients select crop varieties, project yields, estimate the amount of carbon tons per year sequestered, and anticipate the cost of inputs and labor for installing, maintaining, harvesting and marketing specific crops.
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Plants for Your Regenerative Project
We keep a large inventory of plants that control erosion, rapidly generate biomass, break-up compaction layers in the soil, provide a source of ‘living mulch’, add deep carbon and stable nitrogen to the system and serve as ‘in-field windbreaks’ to reduce evapotranspiration. Many of our plants are native and selected to be multi-purpose and ascetically appealing.
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Growing nutrient-dense & improving soil health
Our wholistic nutrient management plans and maintenance packages build soil health and manage pest and disease by boosting the nutrient levels of our client’s crops. Our lab analysis and recommendations set targets for growing nutrient-dense food, balancing carbon to nitrogen ratios (C:N), using a diversity of carbon amendments (vermicast, compost, biochar) and cover cropping systems. We also design systems to empower our clients to generate their own on-farm soil amendments and fertilizers.
Getting Started!
We start all of our work with a soil fertility test and site visit. Testing the soil to identify and correct any nutrient imbalances in the soil is an essential first step all commercial farmers employ to ensure they grow healthy crops. All site visits include a soil fertility lab test, recommendations for applying soil amendments and is the first step in developing your regenerative farm plan, project-level design or crop nutrient service. Those interested in installation or maintenance services may schedule a consultation with our team during your site visit. Each additional consultation hour is $75. Learn more about our additional services and the steps for starting your regenerative farm.
Regenerative Farm and Soil Health Plans.
Design & Forecasting: Our design software allows us to communicate conceptual designs to our clients and to project the potential carbon sequestration, input cost, yields and return on investment for particular agroforestry designs.
Regenerative Management Plans: Taking the time to set-up systems for your farm will save you time, money and heartache. A well-organized farm enables you to grow healthy plants in a way that is enjoyable. Farming involves a lot of tasks from prepping new growing areas and restoring soil health and nutrient cycling, to planning out crop rotations and inter-cropping, projecting sales, setting-up irrigation and managing water use, managing and monitoring nutrients, pests and disease.
Agroforestry Design & Demonstration Farm.
Design Packages: We make agroforestry design easy by selling individual and packages of plants selected to function together as an agroforestry system and intended for succession growth. This system of planting provides growers with a short-term cash crop while they wait for longer-term tree crops to mature. We offer perennial ground covers, shrubs and trees that are ideal for our North Shore growing conditions, attract pollinators and ‘beneficials’ , serve as a living mulch and nitrogen fertilizer source, encourage a rich soil ecology and restore on-farm ecosystem services.
Demo Farm: Our demonstration farm displays agroforestry concepts, serves as a propagation and budwood bank, provides living examples of our hardscape products and soil-building systems, demonstrates the use of our functional plants for creating windbreaks and making fertilizers and is used to share the process for moving fallow land into a thriving, productive system. Our demo farm is open during our workshops and special events or by appointment.
Nutrient Management & Carbon-Building Systems.
Crop Nutrient Management, Maintenance, and Monitoring: Our approach to building soil health and managing pest and disease begins by boosting the nutrient levels of your crops. Plants that are healthier produce more root exudates to feed soil biology and fuel nutrient cycling, have a more robust root system and rhizosphere, and produce secondary metabolites, triggering natural plant immune and defense systems. If you’re starting a farm, a good first step is a soil test.
Carbon & Soil-Building Systems: Soils that have low organic matter, poor air and water space, low biological activity or diversity and that are compacted will create the conditions for plant nutrient deficiencies and high pest and disease pressure. If you are just getting started or have been working on degraded or intensely used land, it is critical that you improve the health and function of your soil if you want to grow healthy crops. We take an active approach to improving your soil and crop health by helping you grow your own fertilizers, plant cover crops and set-up vermicast and other soil-building systems on your land.
Privacy Hedges, Windbreaks & Outdoor Living Spaces.
Momona ~ The Farm Art Project
Working with the land creates beauty and provokes inspiration. We love sharing the creativity that people feel from being out on the land and working with their hands in our farm art studio and with elements from the land itself. Our Farm Art Project is an effort to bring local artist out to the farm to create ‘landscape art pieces’ and natural building projects. We demonstrate these projects through our farm design workshops. Check out our Farm Art Project and workshops to begin designing your own edible landscapes, living archways, arbors and outdoor living features.
Our nursery offers varieties of clumping bamboo and other varieties of quick growing plants ideal for planting privacy hedges and defining outdoor living space. Our plant packages, hardscape and natural building products bring old world charm from around the world to your outdoor living spaces. We partner with natural builders and suppliers to offer whole sale or custom-made stone sinks, open-fire cooking features, outdoor shower towers and tubs, stone pavers, pergolas, arbors, ornate garden gates and other unique products. Check out our kitchen garden and outdoor bath plant packages and design workshops to start creating a space for health and wellness on your farm and taking steps to bring your life closer to nature.
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