USDA Certified Organic CSA farm offering seasonal produce shares, flower shares, and garden plant starts.
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Salamander Springs Farm
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Off-grid permaculture farm producing heirloom cornmeal, dry beans, vegetables, and staple grains near Berea, KY
Salamander Springs Farm is an off-grid permaculture farm built from scratch since 2001 on Appalachian mountain land near Berea, Kentucky. Owner Susana Lein established the farm after nearly a decade developing permaculture systems with small farmers in Latin America. The farm produces a variety of vegetables, staple grains, dry beans, fruits, nuts, berries, herbs, flowers, forest medicinals, ramps, and mushrooms. Its signature product is whole-grain stone-ground cornmeal milled from KY Rainbow, a colorful heirloom dent corn Lein has developed since 2001. It also sells tender-kernel yellow popcorn, black turtle beans, pinto beans, and KY Rainbow corn seed. Customers buy through the Berea Farmers Market, a CSA, local stores and restaurants, and mail order. The farm also offers farm tours, permaculture workshops, and consulting. Learn more on their About Page.
Salamander Springs Farm uses no-till methods across all crops, including its grain and dry bean fields, which have been broadcast-seeded since 2003 in a continuous relay cover crop system. No pesticides or commercial fertilizers are used; soil fertility is built through permaculture and biodynamic principles, including keeping the soil covered with living roots, compost, and mulch. Cornfields are grown in no-till three-sisters polycultures of pole beans, pumpkins, and squash, drawing on traditional Native American milpa practices. Contour swales and ponds are used to retain moisture and nutrients on-site. The farm runs entirely off-grid, relying on a small solar electric system and a gravity-fed spring water supply. Dried fruits, chilies, tomatoes, herbs, and teas are produced using a solar food dehydrator built on the farm. All structures on the property have been self-built using locally harvested lumber, clay, straw, and salvage materials.
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