The Land

Dirtfolk Farm is located on 80 acres of diverse land with in the Illinois Valley, in rural Southwest Oregon. We enjoy oak savanahs, wetland areas, mixed conifer forest, and grow food on a 5 acre sprawl of land adjacent to the Althouse Creek watershed.

We are located within a larger land project named holo’bolo that engages in community healing, collaboration, solidarity, and learning projects.

History

Dirtfolk Farm occupies Takelma land, and we recognize the history of white supremacy and oppression that enables us to exist and farm on this land. In reparation, Dirtfolk Farm will contribute a portion of proceeds to local indigenous-led groups as reparations to honor the historical ecological stewardship, indigenous wisdom and knowledge, and stand in solidarity with the First Peoples of this land.

Located within the so-called “Emerald Triangle” of cannabis production, Dirtfolk Farm operates on an abandoned cannabis growing operation. Our vision is amplified by how our community has been effected by these operations - water and land polution, land for growing food becoming financially inaccessible, human and worker’s rights concerns, and the general ecological extractive practices of cannabis production. Having the privledge to

Growing Practices

Dirtfolk Farm utilizes regenerative agroecological practices to preserve the health of the soil, water, and products we produce. These practices include:

• reduced tillage
• zero synthetic fertilizer and pesticide use
• crop rotation
• mulching and cover cropping
• use of safe compost materials & 1-ingredient amendments
• and integrated pest management

These practices help us preserve water, sequester carbon, grow healthy, resilient plants, and preserve soil structure. Although we utilize “organic” practices, we do not pay to recieve the USDA Organic label at this time.