THE FUTURE IS IN YOUR HANDS.
The mission of “Future Farms”
is to bring healthy food and farms to you and your family. We
believe that in the future, farms will have to be returned to human
scale in order to regain and ensure diversity, accessibility, and
longevity. Future food production should develop with people at a
local level, and there's nothing more local than a farm in every
yard! So forget about involuntarily dealing with capital market
fluctuations, technocratic institutions, and synthetic petroleum
inputs, we'll show you how to grow food how it's supposed to be
grown, in harmony with life and human needs on earth!
If you're short on time, we'll setup
the infrastructure for you, then all you have to do is water, weed,
and harvest. Check out 'Edible Landscaping' for further details.
ABOUT OUR GROWING.
We practice what we recommend. We've
turned our yards into a farm!
“Future Farms” mainly uses two
types of agricultural methods, the row garden and a variation of the square foot
method. Row gardening is a simple way to use a larger piece of land
for growing food, this is the standard method that most people are
familiar with, in which plants are planted in rows. The square food
method was developed by Mel Bartholomew in order to grow more crops
in a smaller area. It encompasses a raised bed infrastructure with
trellised plants growing vertically to save space. We use a more sustainable variation of this method.
In all cases we use organic compost to
keep the soil alive and healthy, we never use synthetic fertilizers.
We plant organic, non genetically modified seeds, we conserve water
by using drip systems instead of sprinklers, we utilize crop rotation
and cover cropping methods, and we are completely chemical and
pesticide free. Plus, we live and grow locally in Cotati and Santa
Rosa, which reduces the environmental costs of transporting food,
while strengthening social cohesion within our communities.
Come see our setup, give suggestions,
ask questions, and grow it yourself!
