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September 2016

"Welcome to Our Farm"

Welcome to our desert oasis. Located 60 miles West of Las Vegas, between Las Vegas and Death Valley. Our goal is to strive to become as self sustainable as possible and being good stewards of our land and animals.
The main goal and focus is in raising animals humanely and providing them the best possible environment in which to grow. This environment must include full access to grass pastures.  Our beliefs is what guided us on our path to becoming the only “animal  welfare approved” farm for our fresh pastured organic eggs, chickens, and geese.
All farm activities are performed with organic and or bio-dynamic growing methods and principles.

Farm fresh purple potatoes

NOne of favorite crops are our potatoes . The purple potatoes like any purple produce are loaded with anthocyanin which is in the powerful flavonoid family of antioxidants . We will make some Peruvian potatoe soup for dinner....
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Cover crops

We roatate our crops and use lots of cover crops to build our garden beds. We are getting these beds ready for some winter crops. We cut the cover crops down to mulch our beds then we use our broad fork in the beds and put compost and worm castings in the gardens . Our free range hens help us work...
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Making Acid Compost

Composting wine pomace and stems with our pine needles makes terrific acid compost for tomatoes and the vineyards....
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Wine pomace

It takes a team to work the farm, we get in and get things done and there is never a boaring day as we always have something to do....
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Aged garden bed

Like fine wine the older well taken care of garden beds the better they become . This garden bed is about sixteen years old we make sure to rotate crops and cover crop building our soil to grow great tasting food. We cover cropped this bed for eighteen months now it's ready for winter greens,...
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