Share Your Story
As a 501(c)(3) nonprofit we're committed to ecologically-minded agricultural education. Please share your story about how our work has influenced, inspired or changed what you do and how you do it. We'll be updating our website to highlight your stories. Click below to fill out our form to share your experience, photos, and links to your garden, farm or operation.
STORIES:
Erin Worrall is a farmer, educator, and mom of four in Southwest Virginia. Her background in marketing provided a unique perspective on starting a farm, and enabled her to scale from a home garden to half acre operation in just two seasons. She is driven to farming by her passion for fostering community, believing that connection to our food builds connection with the people and place that surrounds us.
Chef’s Harvest Farm
Michael Russo attended the Frith Farm Event at Rough Draft Farmstead and immediately went home and implemented everything they learned; specifically the termination of cover crops and using said cover crops as a sheet mulch. Michael watched and listened to the presentation provided over 100 times. Check out the progress of Chef’s Harvest Farm.
Dead Head Produce
My husband found the No-Till Growers YouTube channel once he began obsessing over regenerating the soil health in our yard. We moved into our house in 2022; the yard was overgrown with invasive grasses, there was terrible compaction.. He refused to believe that expensive raised beds and constant external input was the best option for us to begin growing food here and once he found the No-Till page he was hooked. To quote him, “We go to YouTube as gardeners to solve a problem often times, and Jesse quickly became that channel for me.” -Jess Hallman
Gardens at Studio 369
Landon found No-Till Growers via Instagram and found the information on composting, cover crops, and rotations to be helpful and successful. Landon writes: “I also credit [No-Till Growers] with introducing me to no-till gardening which made my farm possible. We could never have afforded a tractor or other heavy machinery, but with these practices we’ve started a successful CSA and keep our family fed on less than an acre of garden space.“
Tater Towers
Michelle had been working on farms for several years. She found solace in the farming interviews of the Market Garden Podcast during the isolationist times of covid-19. She is now building Tater Towers, a market garden in rural Idaho. She regularly revisits the Farm Tour series featuring Sage Hill Ranch Gardens when looking for inspiration and guidance for growing on steep slopes and terraces.
Apostle’s Garden
Farmer Jackson found success in his market garden through deep mulching. Jackson’s alternative site selection has inspired simple systems and lean practices that can be relocated if need be.