Pachamama Farm

About

Mission:
Pachamama Farm & Wellness enhances the well-being of its community by producing pure food, offering educational programs, and providing healing services in Nature.

Vision:
Our vision is to:

Inspire all people to align with the natural rhythms of the earth.
Deepen people’s ecological consciousness and self-awareness.
Promote a reverence for the sacred act of farming and the art of healing.
Provide a model for living balanced and sustainable lifestyles in harmony with Nature.

Goals:
Our goals are to:

Help create a sustainable food system in our region and around the world.
Develop and promote an earth-centric community.
Serve as an agricultural educational resource and healing arts center.

Values:
Our values include:

Ethical: We consider the natural environment to be sacred, and we relate to it with ecological integrity.

Respectful: We offer amiable living and working conditions, and encourage the input of employees, volunteers, customers, clients, and program participants in achieving the mission, vision, and goals of the farm.

Regional Self-Sufficiency: We participate in the development and preservation of locally available resources, such as open pollinated seeds, which increase genetic diversity and food sovereignty in our region.

Educational: We aim to advance current knowledge of sustainable agriculture and nature-based health and wellness philosophies, and to teach it to others.

Products

Carrots, Peppers, Lettuce, Leeks, Garlic, Broccoli, Cauliflower, Turnips, Tomatoes, Canteloupe, Cabbage, Honeydew Melons, Banana Peppers, Watermelon, Cherry Tomatoes, Squash, Sugar Snap Peas, Snow Peas, Fava Beans, Green Beans, Spinach, Kohlrabi, Kale, Chard, Scallions, Eggplants, Zucchini, Celery, Parsnips

Farming Practices

We have chosen not to be a “certified” organic farm because we believe that our community trusts us enough to know that the ecological integrity of our production methods is superior to any of those proposed by the USDA’s “organic certification” program. We also feel that the time and money needed to certify our farm is better invested into the farm itself. The farm is in many ways a wildlife sanctuary and is subsequently treated as such.

We never use any synthetically derived fertilizers or pesticides on our farm. The only product we’ve used as a rare insecticide application is Neem Oil. This is an extremely ecologically friendly extract from the Neem Tree. Our customers can be sure that if ever an emergency should arise in our crop production regarding nutrition or insect infestation that demanded acute action, any products used would be in compliance with the USDA certified organic production guidelines.

At Pachamama Farm, we use holistic practices in an effort to preserve precious topsoil and contribute to biodiversity whenever possible. We are consistently learning new ways to improve our farming systems and our relationship with Nature. Knowing that nutritious food comes from well-balanced soil, we use specific farming techniques and amendments to try to ensure that a wide variety of minerals and biological organisms are present in the soil to support our crops. Our fields show great potential thanks to the use of similar methodologies on this land prior to our arrival. Other efforts to build the foundation of our ecosystem include planting protective hedgerows and integrating soil nurturing cover crops into our field rotations.

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