OPEN RIDGE FARM

Open Ridge Farm is husband and wife team, Jonathan ("Jona") Felts and Gretchen Ferrell, with day labor and entertainment provided by our daughter, Opal. Our farm is 3.5 acres along Rock Creek, watershed of Mt. Mitchell, in the South Toe Area of Yancey County, consisting of a young fruit and nut orchard, market gardens, and certified Farm Kitchen with dining space... The short story is that we practice organic, "no-till" agriculture. We aim to grow nutrient rich soil, which yields nutrient rich food for our community. We never apply synthetic chemicals or fertilizers... The slightly longer version is that we came to farming with a permaculture background, but found that production agriculture didn't seem to have much precent for incorporating so many tenants of what we knew as good practice (mulching, intercropping, etc). Using the methods small scale farmers were following at the time created more questions than answers in 2013. After a couple of years following what seemed to be..

Primary location: Burnsville United States