Native Planter Episode Two: Sharing the Landscape

Mike’s been farming Churchill Orchard for 12 years now!

He’s developed his own game… Mike talks about learning how to farm with nature and still bring in a delicious harvest in this 3-minute video.

Mike: “The oak trees take what, 5% of the space of the orchard?  Maybe.

I guess I would argue that we take up a lot more space than the oak trees do. Whether it’s roads, cars, citrus trees, etc…. the least we can do is carve out a little bit for what has been here for eons.

We don’t need to fill every square foot with citrus. The hope is to find it some balance, right? We look for that balance because we think it makes for better farming. We think that having more habitat for birds, more habitat for certain insects, promotes what we’re trying to do agriculturally. We can we can have a successful orchard and give up that space and have a magnitude healthier environment for the orchard.”