Nurturing Growth Through Regenerative Practices

Like many, during the COVID lockdown, I took my hobby of gardening to the next level, turning our front yard in Oklahoma City into a native plants pollinator habitat and turning our back yard into a small farm. In 2024, I retired from full-time ministry and my husband, Jim Reilly, and I bought a one-acre farm in Ranchos de Taos NM. Today, we are learning how to grow healthy food using regenerative, veganic techniques and philosophy.

We aspire to grow produce to supply local food banks, and to run a booth at the Talpa Community Farmers Market where funds raised will go to support local animal shelters and clinics.

What is regenerative agriculture?

In a nutshell, regenerative agriculture is an approach to farming and land management based in indigenous practices that go back millennia, that takes a holistic approach, takes nature as its model, and looks at agriculture as part of a web in which all things are interconnected: the people who grow the food and their larger communities; the diverse variety of plants that are grown and the many critters, above and below the ground, that are nurtured by and, in turn, nurture those plants; and all the beings that grow, die, decay, and bring new life.

For more, see: https://www.regenerativefarmersofamerica.com/

What is veganic farming?

In veganic farming, we replace chemicals and animal-based fertilizers with sustainable plant-based materials.

For more, see: https://veganorganic.net/