..."What are you going to do to get you soils healthy and mineralized?... If soils and livestock are healthy and mineralized, production is not a problem. This is called leading, versus pushing. Pushing crops and livestock leads to stress and problems."
~The Organic Farming Manual
We Grow Food to Feed Families
And are committed to working hard to bringing the fruit of the earth to you.
Our love for food, and our desire to provide quality, sustainable products to our local community, drives the hard work required to produce, pick, pack and put our large variety of fruits and vegetables into your hands.
How do we do it?
We strive to be as economically and ecologically sustainable as possible. Our way of life depends on us educating ourselves on the responsible use of resources, and the needs of our customers.
We are learning new things about the earth, our product, and our community everyday to make our operation better. We believe that sharing this knowledge with our neighbors and customers, strengthens our local health and agricultural economy, leading to long term stability as a farm and business.
We currently practice cover cropping, crop rotation, integrated pest management, use of regionally selected and bred seed varieties, mulching, and season extension techniques. We are currently a three-season farm, and with the recent additions of our high tunnels, are working to produce for market year-round.
We have recently added livestock to help us complete our nutrient cycle and improve soil conditions, and perennials and permanent no-till beds to help reduce land-use stress and reduce our resource use.
These practices improve our soil's health, suppress pests, limit the need for supplemental irrigation, and help us continue to move away from the use of synthetic chemicals and fertilizers.
All of these elements contribute towards our goal of providing an affordable, quality, product to our community for as long as possible!
How We Got Here
It all started with a can of spaghettios on the Natural Resource field trip bus at NC State, and we haven't looked back. Our desire for a simpler life and our love for nature drew us together and got us farming. We were married in 2011.
One of the seven Parker sisters (Yes, that's how we got our name), Janice was raised on a multi-generational tobacco and produce farm with roots in Southern Maryland since the 1600's. We spent 2 years in Maryland working with my family and running our own markets before moving back to North Carolina in 2013.
Michael is a Denton boy born and bred, so it wasn't long before we came back home. The Fine Farming Company was born in 2014, and through three children, settling on our own property, and the trials and successes of farm life, has evolved into Seven Sisters Farm as we know it today
There is a natural way to make you young...
Go out in a field
And start right in to work: dig, hoe
Keep your thoughts and yourself in that field,
Eat the food you raise...
Be willing to manure the field you harvest.
And that's the best way--take it from me!--
To go on being young at eighty
~Goethe (Compiled by Wendell Berry in What Matters? Economics for a Renewed Commonwealth)
