Secret to Great Food: Why Soil Health is Everything

When you bite into a crisp apple or a flavorful carrot, you’re tasting the soil it grew in. At Brookeside Farm, we don’t just grow plants; we grow soil.

How we build healthy earth:

  • Cover Cropping: Instead of leaving fields bare in winter, we plant “green blankets” like clover to put nitrogen back into the dirt.
  • No-Till Methods: By minimizing how much we dig up the ground, we protect the complex underground networks of fungi and earthworms.
  • Compost Gold: We turn farm waste into “black gold,” a natural fertilizer that keeps our plants strong without the need for synthetic chemicals.

Healthy soil means a healthy planet, and more importantly, it means more flavorful food on your dinner table.