ABOUT US
Early Owl Farm is a small, diversified, family farm. Our focus is growing delicious, nutrient-dense vegetables and beautiful cut flowers, raising happy chickens and taking care of our land.
The health of our farm's ecosystem is extremely important to us, and our farming practices reflect that. Although we're not yet certified organic, we strictly adhere to organic farming methods.
In fact, we go beyond the rules of the organic certifiers and practice what is called Regenerative Agriculture: "Regenerative Agriculture is a holistic land management practice that leverages the power of photosynthesis in plants to close the carbon cycle, and build soil health, crop resilience and nutrient density." (Regeneration International) If you'd like to learn more about this philosophy,check out: http://www.regenerationinternational.org.
VEGETABLES
We grow a wide array of vegetables in order to offer a nice variety to our community. We source our certified organic seed from companies in the Pacific Northwest who know what grows well in our climate. We use certified organic compost, worm castings and cover crops for fertility and organic matter, inoculate our soil with mycchorhizal fungi and take great care of our soil biodiversity. We invite beneficial insects and all sorts of other creatures to our farm by planting the flowers they love right alongside our vegetable crops and by maintaining hedgerows of native plants.
FLOWERS
About 80% of the flowers sold in the United States are imported from other countries and must be completely free of pests in order to pass through customs. This results in heavily fumigated flowers with extremely high carbon footprints ending up in people's homes. At Early Owl Farm we take great pleasure in growing all our gorgeous blooms on our property in Eugene, without pesticides, fungicides or travel times.
CONTACT
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