A tactically organic & regenerative, earnestly purposeful farmstead

By acquiring and reincarnating forgotten skills and mindfully cultivating our small, six-acre farm, we get closer every season to growing, gathering, and harvesting all that we need of nature’s abundance while creating a sustainable, at least partially, off-grid way of life with more than enough to go around.

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Let us grow, together, sustainably

We believe those with access to them, and their inherent advantages, have an ethical obligation to source fresh foods consciously, critically, & locally. Our belief is that if you can afford to avoid a big grocery store (if even just a section of it, even just once), you ought to. It is the growing community here in agreement and recognition of this responsibility and opportunity, that we want to serve.

We have found it unavoidable to reckon with our opportunity and privilege to be growers of precious soil and its produce, to sow and reap the land in support of our families and our growing CSA community. We have made a commitment to no longer ignore or accept with complacence the complicated ethics, logistics, and economics our society has neglected about what, who, and how much goes into basic, essential goods & nutrition.

The Morckels

Practially motivated by the pursuit of self-reliant, traditional sustainability and passionately complelled by the confluent complexity and minimalism of natural systems, we strive to actively practice and encourage a productive, humble, agrarian lifestyle.

We’ve found that the small farmer/homesteader lifestyle is, in its simplest description, a commitment to pay attention. The farmers are required to devote an atypical, unreasonable amount of time, physical labor, and mental bandwidth to the farm, all of her inputs and outputs, and all of her living things.

But our idea is that the homestead “kills many birds with few stones,” so to say. By default, regular activity keeps you physically well, as does the abundant exposure to soil and sunlight, as does the product of the necessary physical labor- fresh, organic fruits, vegetables, herbs, mushrooms, eggs, and meat. The farm & the gardens encourage a recognition of both tangible and metaphysical purpose, with an unavoidable requirement of discipline that we doubt could be detrimental to the heart or the soul.

David

On the farm, David is the zealous garden designer and overseer. He has a strange fascination with the traditional inefficiency of settler-style, human-scale homesteading and a passion for the pursuit of self-reliance, sustainability, and polymathy.

Off the farm, in the real world, David is a music & sound professional. Formerly a touring county/southern rock guitarist and music teacher, David has an ongoing career as a location sound mixer in the Central Ohio video production community. David’s gardens will rarely total more than a half acre of crops, but you’ll likely be astonished by how much beautiful, bountiful Ohio nutrition a small scale, intensive operation like his can yield.

Erin

Erin actively chases unique lessons. Off the farm, she’s a high school educator, with courses in AP Environmental Science and Biology. On the farm, shes serves as the “genetics consultant”, making selective and strategic choices considering the perennial goal to foster remarkable, resilient, healthy, and happy population of blooms, birds, and bovidae alike.

Off-farm, as a 11th year teacher in Westerville, Erin has truly integrated the lessons learned on the farm with the teachings she shares with her students. Her egg layer program values selectively breeding for diversity in egg color while ensuring exceptional nutrition by employing free-range & pastured practices.

Erin has an undeniable eye for agrarian aesthetics and truly captures our authentic farm experience through our farm’s public content and social media. A gifted and expressive florist, she has an unmistakable passion for native and cultivated flora and fauna. She’s both an educator and a curious learner alike. Whether she’s foraging around it, nurturing it, or embracing its bounty, Erin truly preserves every minute of daylight at the farmstead.

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