Heal the land
Our goal is to get back to basics.
The film behind these words follows water through the farm in one continuous close-up: resting on cracked bark, sinking through soil among the roots, rising through a green stem, and settling on a leaf in evening light.
Our Roots
Our Story
A regenerative forest farm in the Somerset Hills of New Jersey, healing the land one season at a time.
Where It All Began
Healthy food
that is delicious
Healthy soil makes healthy food. We are what we eat ate.
One line carries the exchange from soil to plant, where it divides: one route through the animal, one straight from the garden. Both arrive at you.
“Eating is an agricultural act.”Wendell Berry
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. The fallow years left behind an unsuccessful successionary forest, invasive plants, and eroding soil.
The living line descends and stops where the land was left fallow. Below the break its strands carry on without ever joining.
Interdependence
Earth · animals · people
We honor the interdependence of the earth, animals, and people.
The exchange runs from soil to flock, gardens, permaculture terraces, mushroom yards and silvopastures, into your home, and back to the soil.
It is our intention to inspire others to do what they can, even if they live in an apartment.
High standard of care
We believe in a high standard of care for the animals who feed us, pastured in rotation as multi-species flocks.
Inspire others
Farmers are compensated fairly. It is our intention to inspire others to do what they can.
Our Prayer
“Maranatha” means
Come, O Lord
The first Christian prayer. We honor God in all things.
“This is food the way God intended it to be.”