welcome to:Laird Woodland Farm & Agrarian Studio
Located in Harper, Kansas. We grow culinary and medicinal herbs and mushrooms.
Our desire for this land is that it would flourish. We believe that to do this we must listen to the land—its history, watershed, topography, vegetation and creatures—on their own terms, asking questions and listening to what each have to communicate. We believe that this kind of relational listening will lead to healthy ecosystems.
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We do not use any herbicides or pesticides or synthetic fertilizers on our farm. We are currently classified as Certified Naturally Grown and we are moving towards organic certification but we want to do even better than that. We seek to cultivate soil that is alive and well, utilize carbon sequestering practices, and increase the diversity of our plant friends and local creatures.
Mostly we love to see land, bodies and communities whole. We believe that the health of our bodies and communities is intricately connected to the health of our land.
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This farm has been in our family for over a hundred years and it has seen many iterations. In the early 1900's it provided eggs, milk, cream and butter for the residents of Harper County. Starting in the thirties it became a snake and wild animal farm providing zoos and circuses around the world with rattlesnakes, bull-snakes, prairie dogs, kangaroo rats and much more. By the seventies the farm was a cabinet of natural curiosities curated by Lem and Stella Laird who would often host school children who came to see the various artifacts and to walk the creeks and woodland.
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We are makers and researchers as well as farmers. This means we are always trying out new ideas. This could be ceramics made from site harvested clay, sound panels of mushroom mycelium, a tea house built exclusively from on farm materials (one day), hosting a perennial wheat test plot for the Land Institute or simply writing about our experience with land.
2024 Herbal CSA
Our 2024 Herbal CSA is open for new sign-ups.
We are full for the 2024 season. Please sign up for our email list to be notified of pop-ups and where we are stocking.
Our Herbal CSA consists of four season-specific shipments that reflect the rise and fall of the seasons with elements specific to this place. A Spring CSA might include: juniper hydrosol, cottonwood resin balm, roasted root tea and our first harvest of chamomile. Along with your herbal products you also get to choose an herbal single from our apothecary. Included with a CSA subscription is a tea cup made by a local artisan and a tea strainer with a lid. I often tuck in extras: tea samples for you to share, or new products to try. I offer a pen-pal CSA mailed to your home, as well as a local pick-up option for Harper, Reno and Sedgwick Counties. Local pickup also includes a monthly selection of fresh herbs.
