Live Power Community Farm

Live Power Community Farm Founded in 1973, Live Power Community Farm is a 40-acre, biodynamic/organic Community Sustained Agri

Founded by Stephen and Gloria Decater, Live Power Community Farm is a solar electric and horse-powered, diversified, Demeter certified biodynamic farm. The farm began operating as a CSA in 1988, making it one of the first farms in California to initiate a Community Sustained Agriculture model demonstrating associative economic principles, and it remains 100% community rather than market based with

all of its production distributed to its member community. It is farmed with biodynamic farming practices, utilizing the biodynamic compost preparations and field sprays to culture the soil and the compost and complete the maturing and ripening processes of the crops to produce the highest nutritional quality, balance, flavor and vitality. The farm is operated as a whole living organism which generates all its needs for maintaining soil fertility and livestock feed through on farm composting of animal manures and crop residues, soil cover cropping, field rotation, and on farm feed production. Four acres of the farm are devoted on a rotating basis to an intensive vegetable garden hosting some 80 varieties of vegetables and herbs. We use a glasshouse and cold frames to propagate vegetable and flower transplants, and grow home orchard fruits and field and forage crops for hay, grain, and pasture. Animal husbandry includes draft horses, dairy and beef cows, feeder pigs, sheep, and laying hens. Each season the farm provides agricultural and food system education and skill development opportunities for beginning farmers, three day on farm class visits for school children and adults, inter-farm and public group visits and tours, and draft horse workshops.

Please note updated beginning time is 9:30. Please arrive early - we have a full day! We welcome all and are looking for...
04/25/2023

Please note updated beginning time is 9:30. Please arrive early - we have a full day! We welcome all and are looking forward to sharing the history of Round Valley together.

Sign up for our CSA!  There are still spots open!Also, for those of you who don't think our weekly basket will fit into ...
08/10/2021

Sign up for our CSA! There are still spots open!
Also, for those of you who don't think our weekly basket will fit into your schedule, our farm box is available for a one time shot.
https://linktr.ee/LPCF_Farm

Live Power Community Farm is excited to announce that our 2021 season is here! Our family-owned, sustainable farm is off...
04/13/2021

Live Power Community Farm is excited to announce that our 2021 season is here! Our family-owned, sustainable farm is offering CSA and farm boxes starting May 6. Get our delicious produce by signing up or ordering through linktr.ee/LPCF_Farm

Dear Friends of Live Power Community Farm,On a recent visit to Covelo, I enjoyed seeing the community building project m...
04/11/2021

Dear Friends of Live Power Community Farm,
On a recent visit to Covelo, I enjoyed seeing the community building project moving forward. As a former Waldorf parent who visited with a Third Grade class when the weather was not cooperating, I know how wonderful it would have been to get the kids inside, out of the rain, after they had sloshed through the fields all day. As a former CSA member (in San Francisco) I know how much I benefited from the wonderful Biodynamic farm products, and I want to support the Decaters sponsorship of workshops for others to learn about Biodynamic farming and gardening. I feel like now is the time to move this dream forward and I encourage you to donate to make it happen.
Leslie Murchy

Help make space for more community at Live Power Community Farm!

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Help make space for more community at Live Power Community Farm! … Kristin Stringfield needs your support for Community Building at Live Power Community Farm

08/15/2020
06/25/2020

BIO-DYNAMIC FARM CREW MEMBER POSITIONS NOW OPEN!

LIVE POWER COMMUNITY FARM CSA
COVELO, ROUND VALLEY, NORTHERN CALIFORNIA

General Farm Description:
Bio-dynamic community farm crew position now open in the epic Round Valley, Northern California! Stipend, meals, housing, WIFI, experiential education provided. Join 3 skilled crew members, 2 farmers, numerous volunteers, animals and livestock on this unique, legendary, bio-dynamic farm. Fun fact! Live Power is one of the first community supported agriculture farms in California, started in 1988. Come seize the opportunity to work and learn on an entirely self -supporting family/small community scale biodynamic farm operated with “Live Power”: draft horse tillage. Crew participates full time, with mentoring, in intensive vegetable production for 100 members, school children class visits, livestock and forage raising for food and land and fertility management, and overall farm care maintenance and operation. Crew will participate and be mentored in:
1. All aspects of the vegetable garden. 2. Biodynamic field practices. 3. Feeding and caring for livestock. 4. General farm maintenance. 5. Participation in school class visits. 6. General farm planning and management. Full day work schedule with ample meal times and afternoon break in hot weather. 5 1/2 days a week.

Skills Required: Good communication skills, a grateful and respectful attitude and willingness to receive and practice technique directions specific to this horse powered CSA farm.
Skills Desired: We prefer to work with people who have at least one season of farming experience and who are committed to pursuing a career in agriculture. Knowledge of, or interest in, Biodynamic agriculture is helpful.

Please contact via phone and email.
Internship Starts: As soon as possible
Internship Ends: November 25, 2020
Number of Internship Available: 2
Application Deadline: As soon as possible
Minimum Length of Stay: 3 months

With growth well underway our produce will be ready for you soon!  We're practicing all necessary safety guidelines for ...
04/10/2020

With growth well underway our produce will be ready for you soon! We're practicing all necessary safety guidelines for your health and ours! Sign up now! Tell your friends!

Hey Everyone, We'll be out of town until the evening of June 23rd but feel free to email or call us in the meantime and ...
06/18/2019

Hey Everyone, We'll be out of town until the evening of June 23rd but feel free to email or call us in the meantime and we will get back to you when we return. Thank you

Mei Lee showing off last weeks vegetable share. We have shares available so please let us know if you're interested.
06/26/2018

Mei Lee showing off last weeks vegetable share. We have shares available so please let us know if you're interested.

Hey Live Power friends!!  Don't forget about the 30th anniversary for The Biodynamic Association of Northern California ...
09/08/2016

Hey Live Power friends!! Don't forget about the 30th anniversary for The Biodynamic Association of Northern California (http://www.bdanc.org/) coming up in about 2 weeks (September 23rd-25th). Come on out to Live Power and enjoy a day of prep-making, education and discussion! Featuring catered meals by Madeline Shepherd and Alexander Decater, square dancing and of course a talent show!

Please reserve meals early by emailing Jon Giusti at [email protected], and please specify saturday breakfast, saturday dinner and/or sunday breakfast.

Dinner will be feast, and we are asking for $18, breakfasts will also be a feast but for only $5!

Hope you all can make it!!!

First beds of the year!
03/02/2016

First beds of the year!

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25451 East Lane
Covelo, CA
95428

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