For the coming season, some real changes are coming to Tarryall Mountain Farms. Yes, we have learned how to grow and produce and leave things better than we found them.................and we're intent on passing all of that on to people who can put it to good use.

For the coming season, our focus will be completely on growing things sustainably and making the fruits of our efforts available to people intent on eating good food and leaving the world around them just a little bit better off.

We have had a bunch of interested visitors throughout the past few seasons and we continue working to educate ourselves and everyone around about just how productive growing at high altitude can be.

We have new and more ideas already rolling around in our heads as we contemplate 2011-- so stay tuned..........

We are pleased to now be Certified Naturally Grown. CNG (www.naturallygrown.org) is a grassroots and farmer run alternative to Organic certification. Check out the website to see what it's all about.

The use of cover crops and rotating the various species of plants in each given section of the farm are a couple of the tools we use to improve the quality and yield of production while improving soil health and balance. These techniques help in a variety of areas including pest and weed management. At the farm you'll notice big areas of plants including oats, buckwheat, rye, vetch and peas which all serve as cover crops. Ultimately they help in erosion control, add organic materials, provide a diversion for some of our less than friendly insects, and some help restore nitrogen into the soil among many other things. The farm is divided into 8 sections with an organized crop rotation from section to section each year. Potatoes are followed each year by a cover crop, the brassica family (kale, orach, mustard, turnips, etc) follow carrots, lettuce follows brassica, potatoes follow brassica, etc.