The Dirt Road Farmer

The Dirt Road Farm was born out of my deep love for hard work, mother earth, family, and a desire to give back to the community I came.  

  12 years ago I embarked on a personal learning journey about local foods and small scale regenerative agriculture.  My vision for the farm has transformed since its germination in my brain, I have plans and ideas for years ahead!

   We’ve chosen to focus on annual crops and floral offerings out of the gate because it will help build the options for other products on the farm.  Eventually I will include culinary mushrooms, berry crops, and other perennial food crops like asparagus in the farms offerings. We seek to be as diversified as possible in the northern growing season.  

   A large part of this vision for me is a community, I have grown passionate about teaching young people about healthy food, and would love to spearhead a program in our community that can involve youth and adults interested in learning and growing chemical-free food together.  

Reasons I pick the varieties of seeds I do, (in order of importance) 

#1 “Days to maturity”  this is of significant importance because of how far north we live.  Anything over 120 days will be tough here without season extending structures.

#2) Disease resistance- can be very important for specific vulnerable crops ie; cucurbits & powdery mildew.

#3 Heirloom/open pollinated VS. Hybrid- this is mostly important or seed saving reasons.  Many heirloom varieties are unique and have interesting stories of cultivation or resurgence in popularity which is just icing on their coolness cake! Hybrids are typically varieties that have been bred through natural plant science to emphasize favorable characteristics of reliable varieties.  

#4 Sometimes, just really love a cool plant name!