We’re a market farm enterprise located near Ludington, Michigan. We practice sustainable agriculture, which means
applying natural fertilizers and biological pesticides; we use techniques that conserve soil and water quality. Our goal is to
improve the soil; doing so will result in strong plants. So, making and adding compost to the soil is a big part of our activity at
the farm. The result is food as nature intended: fresh, nutrient dense and produced without harm to the environment.
Peacefield Farm is Certified Naturally Grown: we follow all of the requirements of the National Organic Program (NOP), as
published by the USDA. All of our crops are grown without artificial inputs, i.e., we don’t use artificially created chemicals or
pesticides on our growing plants. Instead, we nurture the health of our soil with compost and natural rock amendments.
We invite you to come look around our farm....look around our web site, too.
You are welcome to visit anytime.
2007 was our first year growing crops for sale. Growing produce on a small (2,200 s.f.) garden
area, including a 430 s.f. hoophouse, was challenging. We didn't make a profit....but we made a lot
of friends.....and loyal customers! Our signature B.L.S.G. (Baby Lettuce Salad Greens) was a hit with everyone. That bag
of ready-to-eat lettuce greens remains one of our most popular items today.
2008 was a repeat of the first year....only better! More vegetables. More customers. More friends! We polished and
refined our unique email marketing method: delivering to customers their weekly order, which they had emailed to us.
2009 was an eventful year: we moved to a new (to us) farm area. We had purchased 15 acres nearby which had grown
commodity field crops (field corn) for several years. During the first 3 years we prepared the soil and made plans to start a
small market farm, growing over 50 varieties of healthy produce on 1 acre. We worked on improving the land with lime, soil
amendments, cover crops and compost. In addition, we planted alfalfa/broom grass mix on the acreage for the purpose of
improving the soil.
For 2010 we increased the amount of land under cultivation by 1/2 acre, so we were growing vegetables on 1 1/2 acres and
bringing vegetables and small fruit to 3 farmers markets each week.
Dona Nobis Pacem (Bring us peace)
Rich & Lorrie Dykstra
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