Lets get down to root of the reason you're here...
here at O'Crowley Farms our choices are driven by the health of the end consumer, which means we farm for healthy soil, which benefits every truly good cause we can think of.
On the farm we emphasize life--life begets life and a healthy, thriving, busrting with life farm system insists it can grow better life in the food it produces for you.
I painted this trying to capture the orchard and a little of the vision of what it is and what we see in it.
Roots are literally at the root of everything we farm. That's why they are in the sweet spot here in my painting. We use no tillage in the orchard and have seen the biology in our soil change drastically.
Spiderwebs were a challenge to paint into a watercolor--but ihopefully you can spot the little web just below this box-the spider populations have exploded in the orchard--and that is a good thing.
I started painting the flowers in by season--trying to be all scientific. However my enthusiasm for fitting more flowers in took over and I found myself just tucking them in everywhere. I'll simply ask you to recognize my artistic license, but in the same breathe tell you, that they are not all in bloom at the same time.
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Farming for soil health eliminates many of the cheaper shortcuts to producing food--but we aren't trying to raise cheap calories here. Our goal really is to raise the most nutrient dense food we can--food with real substance, food that heals bodies and minds. We want food that gets its nutrients from soil filled with the microbiology that opens the gold mine of minerals that the earth is made of. We don't want to realize in 1 year or 100 years, that in the chemical dripline of fertilizers feeding our food supply, we had missed a vitamin or 2 that was the key to health, healing, or longevity...lets stick with the earth that has it all in quantities and quality that nature intended.
Farming like we do doesn't only make amazing food, but when you have soil that can grow food like this, it also cleans the air, pulls carbon from the atmosphere (and puts it to amazing use), increases water infiltration, eliminates runoff and erosion, and expands the water holding capacity of the soil. I didn't want to stop, but my husband said I needed a period there....seriously we feel we can't say enough about the exciting wins of modeling our farm to work with the earth.
Down To earth farming
We are so happy that you are here and would love to share the journey we have taken to be able to offer you the beautiful food the orchard grows. We are without a doubt, down to earth, real people. We have had our health challenges and our trials and many a bump in the road that has helped change the direction of our lives and shape and sharpen the focus.
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When I was a kid, the little hole in the wall, local health food store had a sign on the checkout that read:
Aren't health nuts gonna feel stupid one day laying in the hospital, dying of nothing.
As a kid it irritated me, because as I'd mull it over every which way I'd think: " If
I was a health nut I'd not choose to die in the hospital period, if I was not dying of anything I'd still not be in the hospital, that I wasn't at already, and if I have nothing to die of I'd be happy not feeling stupid....but you would feel really stupid if you checked into the hospital to die of nothing so the joke was on the health nut after all--hopefully we've gotten smarter...I hope.
But now I have to think of people near and dear to me who have tried in every way they knew to be healthy, have some amazing lab work but are still not well....
so much to discuss.
