03/20/2022
Big news for the first day of spring!
It’s been quite a winter for us behind the scenes, and a couple weeks ago we closed on 35 acres, a house, pond, and pole barn in Dexter!
It’s a beautiful agricultural property with 30 open acres well situated to grow great food for our community. In this our tenth season we’ll be moving our farm to it’s 4th, and hopefully, final location. This will be a huge job, and we’ll be calling on our community for help throughout the season. We are already planning some breaks in production to help accommodate the transition as well, so we’ll apologize and say thank you in advance for your understanding.
We’ll be moving on from our 1890’s farmhouse too. Katie grew up here, we were married in the backyard, our girls were born here, and so was Garden Fort. We settled here ‘temporarily’ following our first season of getting our hands dirty in Wisconsin, and in the fall of 2012, with a shovel and a ridiculous amount of naive enthusiasm we made our first 30’x30’ garden plot. It took us the better part of last year to gather the courage to move on from such a special place to us. We’ve learned so much, and grown in ways we never could have imagined, but ultimately the journey we’re on is leading us onward, and away from this place we’ve called home for the past decade or four.
The goal here is to gain land security, continue to scale our production, and invest in more season extension and additional infrastructure to more reliably serve our current and future customers. Our vision is to provide local, nutrient dense, delicious, moreganic greens for our community, year round, do our part of contributing to food security, and elevate the quality of life in our region. We know we are but a small drop in the bucket, but with your help and continued support we hope to at least make bigger drops and set the bar just a little bit higher for the scale, scope, and impact of the local food movement in Southeast Michigan.
Onward!
* Images run in chronical order from Katie and her sister at the old farmhouse in the 80's (and a drawing she made of the house when she was six) to some shots of the new location at the end.*
