The Farm

Real agriculture, not a garden with a website

The majority of the property’s acreage stays in production. The plan, in phases:

Phase 2 — Foundations: pasture-raised meat (cattle and other livestock on managed pasture) and market vegetables (large garden plots serving community tables first).

Phase 4 — The long crops: an orchard of apples and hardy fruit suited to North Idaho, and blueberries — a signature planting, well suited to the region, beloved at market, and beautiful in rows.

Why a farm at all?

Because food is not a metaphor. A community that grows its own meat and vegetables is materially resilient, teaches its children where life comes from, gives honest work to its young adults, keeps its elders useful and outdoors, and sets a common table that no catering budget can imitate. The fasts mean more when you raised the food you’re abstaining from; the feasts mean more when you raised the food you’re sharing.

The economics

Community tables first; surplus sold at farm stand and to neighbors in the Sandpoint area. Farm work is a shared obligation of the community, a paid occupation for some, and the daily curriculum of the young adult house and school. In time, the orchard and blueberry fields are intended to become a genuine income stream for the community’s institutions.