Human Scale

At Sungrounded Farm, we farm on a scale that makes sense for people, not machines.

This means:

• We crop about 1.5 acres of ground.

• 1.4 of those acres are managed only with a walk behind tractor and hand tools, meaning we can grow a huge quantity of food proportional to this space.

• We till as little as possible in order to leave the soil biology intact and not invert the soil profile.

• We use appropriate technology to grow a lot of food in a small space— we care for our soil and plant in permanent raised beds so we can grow more food in a small space rather than cropping more ground.

• We’re growing! In 2022 we added a small four-wheel tractor to the family and an experimental tractor cultivated field that allows us for more space and mechanization for long season, heavy and space hogging crops like potatoes and squash. After initial ground breaking, we will proceed with our low tillage- high compost model in this field as well. This will allow us to feed our community better for a longer season, while preserving the bodies of our crew!

  Healthy Food comes from Healthy Soil

Our Growing Practices

Farming with our hands.

One of our favorite parts of farming is playing in the dirt! We use innovative technologies to make ourselves as efficient as possible, but most of the work on the farm is done by hand. Because we’re small, we spend our days sowing seeds, transplanting starts, hoeing weeds, and harvesting crops with our trusty knives. This means we get to know each and every plant and care for it well.

Using synthetic fertilizers and chemicals is detrimental to the soil biome we are creating.

This means that we don’t use them!

We feed our plants with compost and organic soil amendments. We promote biodiversity by growing many types of crops, planting hedgerows providing habitat for beneficial insects. We only intervene with natural methods when absolutely necessary, and never with commercial pesticides. We are dedicated to being good stewards of our land.