Shintaku’s Farm Fresh Eggs and More

Mission

to explore possibilities for self-sufficiency and lasting joy through gardening

Practices and Values

  • Organic grown and maintained soil amendments since 2008
  • Use of animal manures from the farm
  • Crop rotation, cover cropping, fallowing
  • Honoring indigenous techniques and traditions
  • Mindful to annuals, perennials, and canopy growth
  • Preservation techniques
  • Seed saving
  • Community building

Seasonal produce

fall

  • eggs
  • tomatoes
  • peppers
  • squash
  • apples
  • pears
  • onions

winter

  • meat birds
  • fruit

spring

  • eggs
  • greens
  • fava beans (fresh and for seed)
  • nettles
  • asparagus
  • flowers

summer

  • eggs
  • garlic (soft neck braids and turban)
  • onions
  • tomatoes
  • peppers
  • potatoes
  • flowers

Chickens

free range chickens and roosters raised for meat and egg production

Flowers

  • sweet pea (July – August)
  • tulip (April – May)
  • sunflowers (July – August)
  • calendula (June – August)

all food, produce, plant starts, and seeds are available on a sliding scale basis