Jared & Sara’s Story: We are responsible farmers, eaters, and advocates for small, local, and sustainable agriculture and businesses. Hand Sown Homegrown is a husband and wife farm that cherishes heirloom varieties, saving seeds, and preserving the world’s garden heritage. We treat the soil like a living organism and use natural growing practices and heirloom seeds. We’re striving to become Biodynamic certified. We started off in agriculture three years ago as we interned on a farm and started a kitchen garden. The second year we expanded our garden and took over a retiring couple’s successful farming operation with heirloom tomatoes. This, our third year of growing, are excited to start farming 1.5 acres fulltime.
We’re starting a farm this year and every year as we treasure fresh, local, and sustainable food.

Plan for 2009 and beyond: The plan for this year and every year is to focus on our soils health. We’re looking at adding many basic elements to our newly established farm. We’re looking to install drip irrigation on our entire farm. We’ll bring in some biodiversity with chickens and ducks, and learn, learn, learn about plants cycles and habits.