Farm Description

 "Man, despite his artistic pretentions, his sophistication, and his many accomplishments, owes his existence to a six-inch layer of topsoil and the fact that it rains."

-Chinese proverb

 

“To be hopeful in bad times is not just foolishly romantic. It is based on the fact that human history is a history not only of cruelty, but also of compassion, sacrifice, courage, kindness...The future is an infinite succession of presents, and to live now as we think human beings should live, in defiance of all that is bad around us, is itself a marvelous victory.”  Howard Zinn
 

The Broadened Horizons Organic Farm is a small, family operated teaching farm dedicated to the learning, the practice, and the teaching of sustainable based agricultural practices.

Our working, restored farm served as our living outdoor laboratory for the natural restoration of native soil fertility, slow release water retention, and the reforestation effort to create a diverse woodland canopy on portions of a former over-abused, rundown, and degraded cattle farm.

Through an outreach educational program that sponsored workshops in subjects of new farm or homestead start-up, permaculture design, earth systems awareness, organic gardening, rainwater collection and retention, and simple construction techniques to increase a building's energy efficiency and livability, we trained a few new farmers, and many others in the practice of simple and sustainable living.

Where we go from here

 

"It may be that when we no longer know which way to go,
that we have come to our real journey."  ~ Wendell Berry