05/25/2026
Hartley Farms goals update 🌱♻️
Our focus is no longer just gardening.
We are building regenerative infrastructure and long-term resilience systems for our family.
Current Hartley Farms goals:
🌳 Expand perennial food production
🍠 Increase calorie crop production through sweet potatoes, cassava, bananas, pumpkins, and tropical systems
🐐 Reduce commercial feed dependence through mulberry, moringa, pigeon peas, Leucaena, Mexican sunflower, perennial peanut, bamboo, and rotational browsing systems
🌱 Save seeds from all successful crops to develop locally adapted Hartley Farms genetics
♻️ Build closed-loop fertility systems using compost, livestock manure, mulch, and biomass production
🐓 Integrate poultry, pigs, cows, goats, and gardens into regenerative nutrient cycles
🌾 Develop rotational grazing systems for long-term pasture and soil improvement
💧 Improve water retention through mulch, canopy growth, organic matter, and ground cover
🌿 Eliminate exposed sand with living roots and biomass-producing plants
🌳 Expand orchard and tropical food forest systems
🥫 Increase food preservation through dehydration, fermentation, pickling, seed storage, and long-term food storage methods
🍽 Produce multiple complete meals each week entirely from the farm
🌻 Continue developing pollinator habitats and native support species
🪴 Expand propagation systems using cuttings, slips, pups, and seed saving
🐖 Build livestock systems that support both food production and farm income
🌱 Transition the property into a self-building regenerative ecosystem over time
The goal is simple:
Build a productive, resilient, regenerative homestead that feeds our family, improves the land every year, and becomes less dependent on outside systems with each season.
