Windrose Farm

All Photos courtesy of Armida Gordon

If you don’t find Barbara & Bill Spencer out standing in their field then you will meet them under the huge tree in the yard where the red headed woodpeckers farm their food. Bill will tell you how they, the woodpeckers, are not harvesting the acorns for the nut, but harvesting and storing the nut in their holes to attract the worms who are the intended food target.

While current agriculture, the science of soil, is about monoculture and begins with killing every living organism in the soil with pesticides, then adding chemical fertilizer to feed the plants and when the plants get sick, as they will, more chemicals are added to cure them. Our entire future of food is invested in monocropping based on a chemical addiction that by nature is not sustainable.

Whew…….

Am I glad that Barbara & Bill have dedicated their lives to growing a little of everything and are transitioning their beautiful farm to becoming completely biodynamic. I know I’ll sleep (and eat!) better.