We know…It’s a cliché, but we strive to make every day Earth Day. Organic is to Earth Day like, well, like holly boughs are to Christmas. Thinking about the impacts to our planet and our loved ones is what prompted us to farm organically from day one, back on our original 2½-acre raspberry patch in […]
If you’re like a majority of your fellow Americans, climate change is something you’re concerned about. And whether you know it or not, all that delicious, fresh, healthy organic produce you put into your shopping cart (whether online or in-store) is helping fight climate change. Well…at least the dirt it’s grown in is. See, it’s […]
Nerdy farming stuff ahead…proceed at your own risk. We often say that organic farming is farming “in harmony with nature.” That’s true. And it’s also true that farming in a truly regenerative organic way demands so much more than simply avoiding the use of harsh chemicals and synthetic fertilizers. It demands our proactive understanding of, […]
Girl Power! We celebrate International Women’s Day (March 8th) with an intergenerational story about Nancy Armenta, her work, and her agricultural heritage. Nancy is a seed breeder for Mission Ranches, the farming division of Earthbound Farm. She works with traditional seed breeding methods to develop new varieties of organic greens for Earthbound Farm. As the […]
We hope you’ll pardon this slightly meandering intro to this article…and we hope you’ll find it worth it. Years ago we used to be a part of the Monterey Bay Aquarium’s annual Cooking for Solutions and Sustainable Food Institute events. And every year, as part of those events, we hosted a meal for some of […]
Is This Why They Call it Rocket? 😉 Without getting NSFW…it all started on an early February day about 20 years ago when a young man with a heavy Brooklyn-before-it-was-hipster accent called us to ask, “What’s arugula for?” He sounded like he was in his early 20s. And we said, a bit perplexed, “You mean […]
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