Matthew — Treadlight Farm: Growing specialty cut flowers, other ornamentals, and vegetables — Our unique, “no-till” growing methods set us apart from most other farms

MatthewTreadlight FarmBovina Center, NYA loan of $10,000 helps me to double our production and get our flowers and produce to market.Personal StoryIrene and I came to farming on two different roads. Irene, from New Jersey, has a background in landscape conservation. Armed with an MS from the University of Pennsylvania, she set out to conserve farmland in the most direct way possible: by working on it. She believes that the more people rely on the land, the better stewards of it they become. Im from California, and studied sustainable development at NYU. I fell in love with farming while a Fulbright scholar in Mali and Senegal, researching farmers who resisted the loss of their lands to industrial-sized operations. Irene and I converged on a vegetable farm in Argentina in 2011, and weve been farming side-by-side ever since. Together, we have combined farming experiences of more than a decade.We are committed to small-scale, ecologically-minded agriculture because we have seen the kinds

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