SUSTAINABILITY

We worked with our good friend Chunling from Farmhouse Productions to put our farm together with the principles and values we want to embrace as a company. She uses a method called Regenerative Farming, which quite simply, works with nature rather than against it. With this method, the basic rules are:

• Keep the soil intact and don’t turn it over or plow it, which conserves all the important ecosystems, worms and microorganisms that help our plants grow

• ⁠Companion planting, or planting multiple types of plants in one planter which complement each other. This helps eliminate the need for pesticides and provides nutrients in the soil that help each other out. For example, snails love tomatoes but don’t like the smell of onions, so we plant them next to each other and keep the tomatoes happy!

• ⁠Protect the soil by keeping it covered, which means it wont be exposed to harsh sun or heavy rain that can damage all the important work going on under there. UV light is an antiseptic so it will kill all the healthy bacteria that is feeding our lovely plants.

• Try to replicate what happens in nature. You will see multiple plants growing together and helping each other out. Some taller plants provide shade for the smaller plants, some protect the others from insects and some feed the soil nutrients that the others need.