We believe the best way to care for our crops is to care for the ecosystem.  We plant many native, pollinator-friendly perennials around our annual cropping areas to create a habitat for many beneficial species of plants that will protect our crops.  These plants also help to prevent erosion by securing the soil in place with roots and filtering any rain runoff that might carry our nutrients down into the bay.

By reducing the amount of tillage or aggressive mixing of our soil, we support the animal, bacterial, and fungal communities which naturally reside there. This balanced biological environment helps to support plant growth by creating soil structure and nutrition which will provide everything the plants need. Additionally, we use crop-rotation to break pest cycles and vary the nutrient requirements of the soil.  We plant cover-crops between production crops to serve as green mulches, break-up compaction, and aggregate deep nutrients toward the surface.