Cultivating high quality produce through sound ecological practices. Son of Something farm grew from the idea that growing food can change the world. Through the cultivation of locally grown food on a small scale a great impact can be made to the health of the people, the community and the natural resources. In 2010 I was working as a wild land firefighter and my father had his second triple heart
bypass surgery. Realizing that heart disease accounts for 1 in 4 deaths I wanted to do work on the preventive side of this problem, to help not only my own family but to help others. At the same time I realized how much big agriculture was impacting our environment negatively. Changing careers and moving back home I started working on the idea of a farm that could make a positive impact for the health of people, my community and my environment. I immersed myself into sustainable agriculture and began to experiment with growing on the land that I had been raised. Eventually I convinced my dad that it was best to tear out the front lawn and to put in our annual vegetable beds. I started putting in long term perennials such as fruit trees, Goji berries and artichokes on other parts of the property. Luckily my dad is a collector of goods so there was an abundance of materials to be up-cycled into infrastructure for the farm.
