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.

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.

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.