Producer

Oxford Farms was started in 2018 with the goal of producing local, clean, nutrient dense food for you and your family. Healthy soils support healthy plants and animals which in turn are nutritious food for people.

Oxford Farms is a 130-acre piece of land with mountain top vistas, rolling pastures, forested areas and a scenic pond. It began as a farm back in the late 1700?s though it has seen many non-farming uses over the years. It is being managed as an ecosystem which is to say that it does more than produce food. It is a source of clean surface water, clean air, wildlife habitat, a balanced biology that favors native species over invasive ones and pests, a healthy functioning soil system that can remove carbon from the atmosphere and store it underground as well as cycle important minerals to the plants. Resilient and stable natural systems require biodiversity and complexity. This means diversity of animals, crops, land use rotations, intercropping, annual and permaculture plantings.

Our commitment to you is that the food produced by this farm will be defined both by what it is: nutrient dense as produced in a healthy functioning soil ecosystem, and what it is not: nutrient deficient as produced in dead soils, the result from synthetic fertilizers and pesticides like glyphosate (Roundup). Healthy soils require more than just the absence of these chemicals. Among other techniques, we rotationally graze cattle and sheep in a humane way to help bring our soils back to life. The animals are kept both healthy and happy by these frequent moves.