Our aim at Erehwon Farm is to bring you the freshest, most natural, and most nutritious produce that we can. Although we are not certified organic, our growing practices are in line with the organic guidelines. We amend our soil with compost, fish oil, kelp, soy meal, and alfalfa meal. In addition we use cover crops to add nutrients to the soil over the winter and in land that is not being planted.
We use floating row covers to help control pests and to reduce the frequency of watering seeds and young plants. Row covers also protect the crops from wind, heavy rains, and bright sunlight. Areas between rows are mulched or mowed to control the weeds. We encourage volunteers – especially children – to come out and remove insect pests by hand.
We are also striving to be more earth friendly by reusing, re-purposing, and recycling as much as we can. Our subscribers and customers often bring us their compost-able yard and kitchen waste rather than putting these in the garbage, helping us and them to be more earth friendly. We use their old newspapers and cardboard for mulching.
For refrigeration we use units that would have otherwise been thrown out. Two of them are old freezers that we have re-purposed with temperature controllers to hold produce at near-freezing temperatures. We are working to reduce the use of plastics and other fossil-fuel products. Those we do use, we recycle.
We are endeavoring to incorporate some permaculture practices. This includes companion planting, using plants to deter pests, sheet mulching to control weeds, and planting perennial crops.
