Mission

In a world of quantity, I have found myself lost, so I have set out on a journey toward what matters most to me: quality. Unfortunately, it’s not normal or easy anymore to get food grown with the intention of nutrient density, health, and positive impact on the environment. Instead, our everyday products are grown with the intention of profit. This comes at a great cost, which I am not ready to pay.

Growing food with better intentions comes at a cost as well: it’s slower, it’s labour-intensive, it’s less „productive“ — but once you feel and taste the difference, that cost is an easy one to pay.
That is why I will never sell food on a regular basis at the market, and why you won’t find vegetables in the produce area.

But then another aspect came along. I bought this piece of land, which I now call home, just a few years after a ferocious wildfire burnt down most of the trees. Nature is amazing at recovering, and the oaks are growing back into trees again, but the ever-spreading infestation of invasive eucalyptus, and the correspondingly heightened fire risk, calls for creating a more resilient, diversified forest — one that is home to many beings, and from which one can build their next home or shed, heat it, feed themselves and their animals, and simply have an oasis of life.

So I started collecting acorns and other tree seeds to germinate and plant, and quickly realized there is a local community with the same problem and the same approach to solving it.

So the idea was born, and it took shape over the following few years. The goal was to grow a small batch of healthy, organic tree seedlings using locally sourced seed and soil. You can find the longer version of that story here.
To round off these thoughts: the small batch stands for non-commercial, and the local seed sourcing is very important to ensure the most adapted genetics for our local climate and soils.