We’re a market farm enterprise located near Ludington, Michigan. We practice sustainable agriculture, which means
applying only natural fertilizers and pesticides, and using techniques that conserve soil and water quality. The result is food
as nature intended: fresh, nutrient dense and produced without harm to the environment.
While we are Certified Naturally Grown and we follow all of the requirements of the national organic
standards, known as National Organic Program (NOP). 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 have chosen to comply
with the NOP requirements.
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. Especially, when you're trying to sell some of
the extra produce! Yet, it was a successful year. 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. In 2007 we had purchased 15 acres nearby which had been
used for commodity field crops. During the past 2 years we prepared the soil and made plans to start a 3 acre market farm,
growing over 50 varieties of healthy produce. We worked on improving the land with lime, soil amendments, cover crops and
compost. The soil could be certified "organic", if we so chose.
So, 2009 was our first harvest off this land. And we were blessed with a bountiful harvest....beyond our expectations!
During the year we sold our produce at two area farmer's markets: Ludington on Friday afternoons & at Pentwater on
Monday mornings.
Dona Nobis Pacem (Bring us peace)
Rich & Lorrie Dykstra
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