We are Erich, Meg and Leyda-Anonna, the passionate farmers and sweet baby of Earthling Farm and Food Forest! see our website for all the details : www.earthlingfarm.org We currently run our farm in Nova Scotia, but we are relocating for at least 2-3 years (hopefully longer) in Comox Valley! Erich will be working for September-October 2025 and March-July 2026. Eventually this work off the farm becomes part-time as we grow as a farm. We would love to spend 2-3 years building the soil, creating healthy water supplies (ponds and rain catchments), saving seed, raising chickens and planting food forests! We would love to find a match by this fall 2025 to begin bed preparation for cover crops, garlic, strawberries. We would also be able to sell our seeds, dried herbs, storage onions, garlic and squash at the fall/winter markets if we are approved as vendors or at a market stand. We also hope to maintain a small CSA in the first or second season. Each season we would like to maintain and grow produce for a 25 Person CSA and/or attend the local market for community members to access our produce ! A Market stand on the land could be a very wonderful addition as well. We are honored to be stewards of the land here in N.S. Our family, friends, volunteers and community help make our farm possible and we would love to welcome community to our farm space in B.C as well! We co-create, learn and grow on about an acre of land , and have 6 Food Forest garden zones integrated throughout the growing space. Earthling Farm is a home-scale farm that grows vegetables, fruits, and culinary and medicinal herbs by hand, with love and care. We use organic and permaculture based practices that provide nutrients to regenerate the land and food systems. We love raising and rotating chickens through the garden during the season. They act as our natural pest control and help manage/fertilize beds. We use our own compost created on the land and locally sourced composted manure from horses, donkeys, llamas, chickens, ducks, peacocks and quail! We pick up leaves all fall for leaf mulch and use local straw and spent hay from our neighbor. We also grow by hand meaning we do not have a tractor. We have a small push tiller to prepare the ground (previously hay field) and then we broad fork with baby on back, weed with hoes/hands and sheet mulch. We value the art of learning by experiencing! We love to share the delicious and nutritious experience of growing and harvesting your own food. We enjoy and celebrate the farming season by preserving, cooking and eating together! Everyday we are listening and working with the land to help restore and support healthy soil, thriving ecosystems and increase bio-diversity of plants and animals (native and non-native species). We practice and thrive with creative work and play in the gardens and in our home. Through music, dancing, art and education we enjoy the days on the farm. We are also home to The Gaspereau Mountain Community Food Forest a project that we started in 2022. Please see website for details.
We would like to find a farm aligned with our practices. We would want the soil to have been untouched as much as possible, covered as much as possible, grown in already for a few seasons, grazed by animals and or organically grown. We would be willing to take on orchard care if available.