About the Farm

The Farm

Reconnecting Roots Farm is situated on 3 acres of an upland farm, east of the town of Arlington, WA. The farm is on the site of a former dairy and has been part of local food production for over 100 year, a tradition we are proud to carry on.
 
Our growing methods are based on principles of agroecology and regenerative agriculture, where soil health, ecological diversity and sustainability are cornerstones to how we farm. We follow all organic farming practices as well as focus on principles of soil management that recognize healthy soils as the foundation of growing nutritious foods. We do this by minimizing tillage, minimizing bare soil and practice cover-cropping extensively. The result is a quality product we can be proud to deliver to our customers.
 

Our Mission

Reconnecting Roots Farm was started with the simple goal of changing our unsustainable food system. For generations people only ate what they could grow themselves or was grown within their local region. This created a connected community with a shared regional culinary identity. These communities were in tune with the ecology of their region and the changing variety of food each season brought.

Our modern food production system upended this approach, replacing it with a system that relies heavily on manufactured inputs and fossil fuels. This change has resulted in environmental destruction, massive losses of soil and bio-diversity, supermarket shelves packed with tasteless, nutrition-less food and a myriad of negative health consequences. Just as importantly, it has caused people to lose connection to the land and the communities that land once supported.

At Reconnecting Roots Farm our mission is to create a new, local, sustainable food system, where people in our community can connect to the land they inhabit and feel satisfied knowing their food is healthy and grown without harming the environment. We want to engage people in taking an active role in a local food system, where nutritional, seasonal and sustainable food once again becomes part of a Cascadian culinary community.

The Farmer

Farmer Brett started Reconnecting Roots Farm in 2021 after spending a season training in the Viva Farms Practicum in Sustainable Agriculture program.

Brett’s love of farming started out as a hobby in gardening as an attempt to get outside and away from a desk while pursuing a career in the aerospace industry. His interest in growing good food lead him to many of the ideas and organizations that occupy the local food space, including the Slow Food movement, bioregionalism, heritage livestock and heirloom seeds. Brett decided that by growing delicious food for the community would be a great way to introduce others to the local food movement and the benefits of sustainably grown food, so he traded his computer for a shovel and started farming.

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Location

  • 13410 228th St. NE, Arlington WA, 98223

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