To my mind, there are two absolutes for Diggin’ Roots: That our time together is precious time, and that Growing Food Feels Good.
Plain and simple: we want to be farmers. We want to harness this miraculous energy to grow food and live resourcefully. We want to raise laying hens, sheep, and innumerable, delicious, seasonal, vegetables. Moreover, we wish to do this NOW, and we hope to learn through it all how to be more integrated, and more efficient w/ all of our systems.
We are amateurs, to be sure, but to begin to grasp the fundamental truth of our earthly interdependence has been both liberating and panic inducing for Sarah and I. Embarking on a lifelong tutorial together, we are encouraged by an increasing, almost palpable consciousness of food origins, food security, and vibrant, self-sustaining local economies.
Growing food brings us joy in our place. Through farming we:
- Connect with our family, friends, and neighbors
- Tend the earth for sustained fertility and Tilth
- Live healthy lifestyles
- Are grounded through our sust
enance
- Learn to be better stewards
- Create centers of biodiversity, adaptation, and education
The inception of Diggin’ Roots Farm represents our humble belief in these positive effects, as well as our intense desire to perpetuate them through space and time.
In the end, Sarah and I are simply seeds without the nurturing encouragement, guidance and reality-checks of family and friends. Our greatest happiness is to feel happy w/ others and to have the luxury of sharing our bountiful existence. Your participation in this grand experiment gives us reason to work so hard.
Thank you for believing…
Your Filthy Farmers,
Conner and Sarah
