Flower Fly Farm

Flower Fly Farm is a small, urban, agroforest farm located in Gilbert, Arizona. Agroforestry is a farming method based on integrating trees/shrubs, pasture, and agriculture as one holistic system. It fosters high levels of diversity, productivity, disease and pest resistance, soil health and fertility resistant to soil erosion, and pollinator and wildlife resources. The focus is long term health and productivity over short-term gains. Our mission is to grow and provide the local community a diversity of fruits, nuts, vegetables, herbs, and sundry using organic methods that promote long-term soil, plant, people, and farm ecosystem health. This is our mission because genetic, biological, and diet diversity is a key component of long term health for both people and the environment. Eating a variety of foods in season is the easiest and best way to have a diet rich in all of the nutrients you need, filled with different and new flavors, and that is a pleasure for all of your senses. Moreover, growing a majority of our food locally is more economically, socially, and environmentally sustainable than importing most of our food. We specialize in perennial plants that include heirloom, rare, native, common, and locally adapted plants. The plants produce fruits, nuts/seeds, select vegetables, herbs, edible flowers, and sundry. While we grow annual plants (grows less than one year before dying), the focus on perennial plants helps support our no-till approach to farming. We also raise heritage chickens, ducks, and turkeys for fertilizer, pest control, and eggs. The birds primarily feed on pasture plants and their seeds, bugs, and fallen fruit and nuts. Flower Fly Farm has many trees/plants still maturing, so many more varieties of fruit will become available in the coming years. For now, what we grow includes moringa, prickly pear fruit and pads, summer apples, peaches, roselle, sour oranges, elderflowers, chicken/duck/turkey eggs, blood oranges, nectarines, apricots, fig leaves, grape leaves, comfrey, rose hips, a variety of herbs and edible flowers, figs, mesquite flour, and more.