What is Natural Farming?
What Is It?
Natural Farming is a special, more natural way to grow crops.
It’s focused around the philosophy that Nature knows best—that balanced biological ecosystems provide plants with a holistic array of nutrients that promotes plant growth like no artificial additive ever could.
With Nature, Not In Spite of It
Natural Farming is about growing with Nature, whereas most commercially grown crops are grown in spite of Nature, meaning they are pumped full of pesticides, preservatives, and other unnatural chemicals just to keep them alive, nevermind flourishing.
The Only Thing Added is the Plant
Natural Farming avoids the use of artificial additives, fertilizers, pesticides and herbicides, and waste products such as manure. No waste products translates to a lower risk of pathogens being reintroduced to the food chain, and no unnatural additives means that everything is natural and self-sustaining.
Instead of plants receiving additives, they are the additive: they are introduced to a nutrient-rich ecosystem built and kept alive by indigenous microorganisms (IMOs) such as fungi, bacteria, nematodes, earthworms, and more.
All About Balance
These microorganisms form balanced ecosystems—a ‘living soil’—which are perfect homes for any plant.
Balanced ecosystems not only keep the plant alive better than additives could, but they provide more resources for plants, mimicking what Mother Nature would give them under idealized circumstances. These ecosystems promote more holistic plant health while keeping the peace with the surrounding Nature.
Better for Everyone
Natural Farming doesn’t disturb Nature like most commercial farms do, and it doesn't drain the environment of its resources. In fact, Natural Farming typically benefits the surrounding area by supplementing the existing indigenous ecosystems.
Whereas most farms continually deplete the soil then try to pump it back to life with additives, Natural Farms keep the soil teeming with life and all its necessities throughout and beyond the life cycle of a plant.
Everything that plants need to flourish can be cultivated in and by Nature. And by working in tandem with natural forces, we can grow crops the right way—that is, to be Healthier, Happier, more Natural than 99% of what’s out there.