Producer
Boundless Farmstead
City: Bend, OR,
Website: boundlessfarmstead.com
About Us
Boundless Farmstead is 15 miles east of Bend in the Badlands of the High Desert. We are surrounded by sagebrush and juniper, and views of the beautiful Cascade Mountains. We are a 20 acre mixed vegetable farm, having 10 acres in vegetables and rotational cover crops, 5 acres in pasture/hay, and 5 acres mixed in orchard, outbuildings, and our home. We have an 80 share CSA program, sell wholesale to restaurants and grocery stores, and sell at the Downtown Wednesday Farmers Market.
We practice sustainability in all facets of life; from building soil to building relationships, from deeply rooting with perennials to deeply rooting in our community, and constantly working towards low waste in our food production, packaging, and home life.
To us, being stewards of the Earth means more than growing vegetables; it means practicing sustainability in all facets of life. Homesteading is about reducing waste, becoming closer to nature, lessening our footprint, and leaving the world a better place than when we entered it. ?Farmsteading is growing all of our own food or trading with farmers we know and trust. ?It means reducing waste by minimizing packaging, composting, and thoughtful purchasing, reducing water by using drip and conservation irrigation and pasture management techniques, reducing materials in the landfill by reusing materials from Central Oregon and picking up compost from restaurants. It means planting perennials, improving the soil, and never using chemicals.
And most of all it means creating community through food; eating, cooking, and sharing the bounty!
We practice sustainability in all facets of life; from building soil to building relationships, from deeply rooting with perennials to deeply rooting in our community, and constantly working towards low waste in our food production, packaging, and home life.
To us, being stewards of the Earth means more than growing vegetables; it means practicing sustainability in all facets of life. Homesteading is about reducing waste, becoming closer to nature, lessening our footprint, and leaving the world a better place than when we entered it. ?Farmsteading is growing all of our own food or trading with farmers we know and trust. ?It means reducing waste by minimizing packaging, composting, and thoughtful purchasing, reducing water by using drip and conservation irrigation and pasture management techniques, reducing materials in the landfill by reusing materials from Central Oregon and picking up compost from restaurants. It means planting perennials, improving the soil, and never using chemicals.
And most of all it means creating community through food; eating, cooking, and sharing the bounty!
Practices
We DO NOT:
We never use chemicals ever (even our home laundry detergent, dish soap, salves, etc are homemade). We never use single use plastic mulch to ward off weeds. We never use sprays, even organic sprays, that hurt bees and beneficial insects. We never use GMOs or treated seeds.
We DO:
We practice crop rotation to minimize pests and disease. We only use organically certified amendments including Perfect Blend (chicken manure blend), feather meal, and fish bone meal, and a few OMRI certified micronutrients (Boron, Manganese, and Zinc). We cover crop with Rye, Triticale, Peas, Clover, and more to add green manure back to the land to sequester carbon. We wash our vegetables in fresh, clean Central Oregon water without adding bleach. We use iodine, vinegar, OMRI approved "Sanidate" (a hydrogen peroxide based sanitizer), and soap as cleaners for our wash station. We grow a diverse array of vegetables and never monocrop. We gather food waste and build compost daily. We reuse and avoid plastics as much as possible. We have bee hives and try to plant pollinator and beneficial insect habitats. We plant perennials, annuals, flowers, and trees to diversify our little ecosystem.
We are working on:
Using less plastics (help us by bringing your bags to the farmers market and Central Oregon Locavore). Using less fossil fuels. Building more compost. Growing and making more and more of the food we consume (this year's projects include homemade apple cider vinegar from homegrown apples and more drying beans).
If you have any more questions or concerns, please call us and schedule a trip to the farm! We love transparency, communication, and involving our community in our process.
We never use chemicals ever (even our home laundry detergent, dish soap, salves, etc are homemade). We never use single use plastic mulch to ward off weeds. We never use sprays, even organic sprays, that hurt bees and beneficial insects. We never use GMOs or treated seeds.
We DO:
We practice crop rotation to minimize pests and disease. We only use organically certified amendments including Perfect Blend (chicken manure blend), feather meal, and fish bone meal, and a few OMRI certified micronutrients (Boron, Manganese, and Zinc). We cover crop with Rye, Triticale, Peas, Clover, and more to add green manure back to the land to sequester carbon. We wash our vegetables in fresh, clean Central Oregon water without adding bleach. We use iodine, vinegar, OMRI approved "Sanidate" (a hydrogen peroxide based sanitizer), and soap as cleaners for our wash station. We grow a diverse array of vegetables and never monocrop. We gather food waste and build compost daily. We reuse and avoid plastics as much as possible. We have bee hives and try to plant pollinator and beneficial insect habitats. We plant perennials, annuals, flowers, and trees to diversify our little ecosystem.
We are working on:
Using less plastics (help us by bringing your bags to the farmers market and Central Oregon Locavore). Using less fossil fuels. Building more compost. Growing and making more and more of the food we consume (this year's projects include homemade apple cider vinegar from homegrown apples and more drying beans).
If you have any more questions or concerns, please call us and schedule a trip to the farm! We love transparency, communication, and involving our community in our process.