Organic Gardening

Growing food and medicinal plants is essential to MPA+E's commitment to community engagement and promoting regional self-sufficiency. We currently cultivate nearly an acre of organic gardens, providing a large part of our food needs during the growing season, as well as canned and frozen vegetables, root crops, and other storage vegetables for the winter months. We also supply vegetables to our local food cooperative and a few friends. Our goal is to expand the gardens to supply more food to the local community while developing efficient, bioregionally appropriate cropping systems and plant varieties that we can share with others who wish to grow food.

While our gardens are full food crop experiments and plant breeding projects they also provide medicinal plants, flowers, and a beautiful place to stroll and graze.