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Welcome to Mariposa Valley Farm
Community.
What does it mean to you?
I know what it means to me. It means a love of the people around me and the activities we are doing. It means sharing experience and adventures with like minded people. It means teaching those around me with a hunger for a more fulfilling life. It means Mariposa Valley Farm to me.
I founded Mariposa Valley Farm with the explicit intent of building Community. I look around my community and I see a real need for opportunities for my friends and neighbors to come together and discover the true meaning of community.
I am designing Mariposa Valley Farm to be a center of activity, where my community can come and learn what it feels like to be intimately involved with nature. Where their children can break away from their televisions, hold a tiny seed in their hands and experience the wonder of watching that tiny seed grow into the food they eat. Where I have the honor of teaching my community what I have learned along the way. And where my community, on the farm and off, grows and becomes richer.
That is my idea of community and how I, as one person, can help to create more of it.
What’s your idea of community?
What does it mean to you?
I know what it means to me. It means a love of the people around me and the activities we are doing. It means sharing experience and adventures with like minded people. It means teaching those around me with a hunger for a more fulfilling life. It means Mariposa Valley Farm to me.
I founded Mariposa Valley Farm with the explicit intent of building Community. I look around my community and I see a real need for opportunities for my friends and neighbors to come together and discover the true meaning of community.
I am designing Mariposa Valley Farm to be a center of activity, where my community can come and learn what it feels like to be intimately involved with nature. Where their children can break away from their televisions, hold a tiny seed in their hands and experience the wonder of watching that tiny seed grow into the food they eat. Where I have the honor of teaching my community what I have learned along the way. And where my community, on the farm and off, grows and becomes richer.
That is my idea of community and how I, as one person, can help to create more of it.
What’s your idea of community?
_I've been asked...what made me become a farmer. This farm is my life and this is my promise to you.
My goal at Mariposa Valley Farm, is to supply this generation and the next, with food they love, education they need and plants they want, in an economically viable and ecologically sustainable format. I am collaborating with my family, friends and colleagues to grow a farm that inspires people's senses and encourages a love of self and nature, through tangible experiences and opportunities on the farm. This farm will allow me the opportunity to spend time with my family, continually learn, and live my life to its' fullest potential.
While MVF is my life, I have been blessed with the support of some wonderful people. The UCD Veteran Association, The Farmer Veteran Coalition, CA Farmlink, ATTRA, the Yolo County Master Gardeners and NRCS, have all played a significant role in forming MVF. With the help of countless volunteers, this year we have planted almost 2 acres of produce and 400 feet of hedgerow, which has enable the farm to start a small CSA, sell produce at the local Farmers Market and donate hundred of pounds of certified organic produce to the local homeless shelter…and we are just getting started.
2012 is shaping up to be a wonderful year! We will be installing U-Pick flowers and berries, planting dwarf fruit trees with an adopt-a-tree program, starting our on-farm farm stand and the beginnings of an Aquaponics program. Be sure to find us on facebook to keep up to date!
My goal at Mariposa Valley Farm, is to supply this generation and the next, with food they love, education they need and plants they want, in an economically viable and ecologically sustainable format. I am collaborating with my family, friends and colleagues to grow a farm that inspires people's senses and encourages a love of self and nature, through tangible experiences and opportunities on the farm. This farm will allow me the opportunity to spend time with my family, continually learn, and live my life to its' fullest potential.
While MVF is my life, I have been blessed with the support of some wonderful people. The UCD Veteran Association, The Farmer Veteran Coalition, CA Farmlink, ATTRA, the Yolo County Master Gardeners and NRCS, have all played a significant role in forming MVF. With the help of countless volunteers, this year we have planted almost 2 acres of produce and 400 feet of hedgerow, which has enable the farm to start a small CSA, sell produce at the local Farmers Market and donate hundred of pounds of certified organic produce to the local homeless shelter…and we are just getting started.
2012 is shaping up to be a wonderful year! We will be installing U-Pick flowers and berries, planting dwarf fruit trees with an adopt-a-tree program, starting our on-farm farm stand and the beginnings of an Aquaponics program. Be sure to find us on facebook to keep up to date!
