The Farm
A working farm
At Rocklands Farm, we seek to foster reverence, intimacy, and stewardship in our community through holistic land management and practicing regenerative agriculture, focusing on growing grass and building healthy soil while imitating nature’s patterns and processes in order to provide you with delicious, nutrient-dense wine, meat, and eggs.
Regenerative Agriculture
Regenerative agriculture is a step beyond sustainability - while traditional western agriculture depletes natural resources, and sustainable agriculture seeks to conserve current resource levels, regenerative practices increase those resources in both quantity and quality for utilization by future generations.
Regenerative agriculture practices use holistic land management, a system which considers the diverse social, economic, and ecological factors that come into play on the farm. A farmer managing their land holistically uses biomimicry (the imitation of nature) to create a system in which each organism is recognized as part of the greater ecosystem - just like a symphony, where individual notes come together to form whole movements, the farm becomes a whole that is greater than the sum of its parts, from microscopic organisms in the soil to large grazing animals on the pasture.
Creation is the model for our management philosophy and farming systems: from ecosystem function, to livestock husbandry, to vine vigor, nature provides an incredible model for healthy land, healthy plants and animals, and healthy people. It turns out that imitating nature’s patterns and functions also serves to build soil carbon, which drastically increases soil health, as well as removing carbon from the atmosphere.