"Recall that whatever lofty things you might accomplish today, you will do them only because you first ate something that grew out of dirt" - Barbara Kingsolver
Rocky Comfort Natural Farm is a small-scale naturally grown market garden specializing in heirloom and unique gourmet varieties. Our goal is to supply the most nutritious, locally grown, chemical-free produce possible, while bettering our soil and trying to improve our environment.
Growing heirlooms helps to preserve the heritage and biodiversity of our ancestors, which is quickly disappearing in modern mass-produced commercial agriculture.
We are constantly working towards our sustainability, by limiting our inputs and sourcing what we need locally when possible. We use minerals that aren't mined and refuse inputs from corporate-controlled industrial factory farming and animal operations.
Our goal in farming the way we do is to mimic nature as much as possible, rather than trying to constrain and control it. We see disease, weeds, and pests as messengers of a soil that isn't perfectly balanced, and are working towards that balance.
We farm naturally by the fact that we minimize our fertility inputs (nitrogen specifically), and add every mineral and element on earth to our produce, making it nutritionally superior than crops fed a bagged NPK fertilizer. Organic agriculture allows many pesticides, fungicides, and herbicides which we never use, and often employs heavy tillage, plastic mulches, heavy nitrogen use, and other practices that are less than earth friendly, that we choose not to use.
Rather than using any product okayed by the NOP (National Organic Program), we search for the safest and most beneficial insect-friendly methods to keep our pest levels manageable, and use mulches and very shallow hoes to keep the weeds down when necessary. (We often leave the weeds as cover crops and carbon/mulch sources.)
Growing heirlooms helps to preserve the heritage and biodiversity of our ancestors, which is quickly disappearing in modern mass-produced commercial agriculture.
We are constantly working towards our sustainability, by limiting our inputs and sourcing what we need locally when possible. We use minerals that aren't mined and refuse inputs from corporate-controlled industrial factory farming and animal operations.
Our goal in farming the way we do is to mimic nature as much as possible, rather than trying to constrain and control it. We see disease, weeds, and pests as messengers of a soil that isn't perfectly balanced, and are working towards that balance.
We farm naturally by the fact that we minimize our fertility inputs (nitrogen specifically), and add every mineral and element on earth to our produce, making it nutritionally superior than crops fed a bagged NPK fertilizer. Organic agriculture allows many pesticides, fungicides, and herbicides which we never use, and often employs heavy tillage, plastic mulches, heavy nitrogen use, and other practices that are less than earth friendly, that we choose not to use.
Rather than using any product okayed by the NOP (National Organic Program), we search for the safest and most beneficial insect-friendly methods to keep our pest levels manageable, and use mulches and very shallow hoes to keep the weeds down when necessary. (We often leave the weeds as cover crops and carbon/mulch sources.)