Miolea Organic Farm

You have to research and read alot if you want to learn why your vegetables look the way the do or what is causing the little wholes in the leaves or why the leaves are curling or tomatoes have black spots on the bottom or you get the idea. 

It helps if you like puzzels because that in way is what it is, if you have no history behind you with growing large scale vegetable plots.  But this is what's so cool about the farming community, there are people out there with working knowledge and practical work experience, except for what we are doing.  We are not the only organic vegetable growers but in our neck of the woods there aren't alot of older more experienced organic vegetable growers.  In Maryland there is a large contingency of organic growers and like our own local farm community they are very gracious to spend time with you and answer your questions.  It seems like we all have this same idea of growing food that is healthy for us to grow and  more importantly for the long term healthy to eat. 

I find the people in the organic community and farming in general to be stewards of the soil, the water and the ecology in general.  I know there are folks out there that are the complete opposite, they have mono-culture farms that are detrimental to the environment and the water and the nieghborhood,  But I don't see organic folks like this, or those people that are using sustainable agricultural practises abusing the land and resources.  The people that are part of the sustainability movement are those people that are commited  as we are commited  to using ecological practises that mimic the poly-culture that mother earth provides and sustains.  We try our best to learn from the history of farming and mother nature to make sure what we do is not harmnful to us and the people that work here and food that we eat and sell.  George Santayana said "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it."  When it comes to growing history is the greatest lesson.