Farm Mission statement and Values

 
 

MISSION STATEMENT

With love for the Earth, ourselves, and others as our guiding principle, we strive to do meaningful work that connects us more and more deeply to our community and ourselves, thereby creating the life we want, brimming over with gratitude and the abundance of Mother Earth. 

Love: 

  • The earth

  • Ourselves (self care, health)

  • Community

  • Each other (co-workers, family)

  • The food we grow

Balance our work: 

  • with personal life

  • relationships with personal relationships

  • with Spirituality

  • Schedule

  • Having conviction around decisions

  • By maintaining boundaries 

  • Vacations: travel, trips/time with friends/family, cabin, fun time

Support and Honor Community by: 

  • Hosting events with friends and community 

  • Collaborating with others

  • Helping others through food donations or discounts, holding events, financial contributions, other collaborations

  • Being active in social justice movements

  • Promoting diversity

  • Offering educational opportunities 

  • Cultivating a work environment that feels supportive to crew members

Strive for efficiency by: 

  • Designing and building it into our work and home life 

  • Creating a minimalist living space and work space

  • Continual reflection on how to improve systems, structure, and function

  • Planning and organizing work and home life by maintaining good habits, rituals and routines

  • Goal setting and following up with those goals

  • Annual or seasonal reviews

Our work will be meaningful because: 

  • We will practice taking care of the Earth! 

  • We will be present and maintain a spiritual practice within our day to day lives

  • We will spend our time with people we love

  • We will give back in many ways to our community and build this into our work and home lives 

FARM VALUES

  • Avoid resource intensive practices

  • Preserve the resources we do use for as long as possible

  • Minimize waste

  • Grow food we want to eat and enjoy growing

  • Grow crops that are efficient (high financial return, low labor input)

  • No till as much as we can

  • No synthetic pesticides, herbicides

  • Financially sustain our lifestyle 

  • Don’t overwork ourselves

  • Efficiency/Lean principles

  • Ecologically minded

  • Perennial crops

  • Employ people

  • Educate people

  • Create a team that feels like family

  • Aesthetically pleasing place to be

  • Eat together

  • Vacation time

  • Put in the time to research and learn so that we may always be growing as growers!