We at Murray Family Farms take great pride in quality produce grown RIPE, the right way.
Regenerative
What’s Regenerative Farming?
Regenerative farming is a holistic and sustainable approach to agriculture that seeks to regenerate the health and fertility of the soil, enhance biodiversity, and promote carbon sequestration while producing nutritious and healthy food. Regenerative farmers aim to work with nature rather than against it, using practices that mimic natural ecosystems and cycles to support healthy soil, plants, animals, people, and the planet as a whole.
What does that entail?
Regenerative farming practices can include minimizing soil disturbance, using cover crops and crop rotation to build soil health, reducing or eliminating synthetic inputs such as pesticides and fertilizers. Each year our soil is augmented with hundreds of thousands of pounds of natural composted organic matter By promoting healthy soil, regenerative farming can increase crop yields, reduce greenhouse gas emissions, and support the resilience of the farm ecosystem in the face of climate change.
Regenerative farming represents a shift away from industrial agriculture and towards a more sustainable, environmentally friendly, and socially responsible model of food production..
Why?
Why grow Organically?
The Cornerstone of Organic is picking ripe as opposed to mature. Although we experience more loss as an organic farm, all of our fruit is picked at optimum ripeness which results in better taste and more nutrients.
Why grow Regeneratively?
The intention fo regenerative agriculture is to be able to pass on the land in which our family farms in the same or better condition than where it was when we started.
Organic
Exceptional Flavor
The sensory quality laboratory at Washington State University tested consumer preferences for organic and conventional strawberries. Blindfolded participants were more often than not able to pick out the organic berry.
Better water for our county.
Irrigation on a field of crops will carry a certain amount of soil, nutrients, and chemicals downstream or into underground aquifers. The more chemicals applied per acre, the greater the challenge in preserving water quality.
More vitamins & Nutrients
In 2014 British Journal of Nutrition, found that organic crops — ranging from carrots and broccoli to apples and blueberries — have substantially higher concentrations of a range of antioxidants and other potentially beneficial compounds, and that review included data from more than 300 studies!
““When we first started traveling to sell fruit, back when we were bringing our kids in to Farmers Markets in backpacks, we really started to see what an impact the flavor had on people. It was excellent to have the affirmation that what we were growing was a favorite for people.””