FARM HISTORY 

The Women’s Environmental Institute runs an organically certified demonstration and education farm which supports a CSA, farmer training programs, community visitors and volunteers. In 2006, 2 years after Women’s Environmental Institute was started, we took over the neighboring farmland on Amador Hill in North Branch in an effort to connect our environmental justice work with agricultural justice. We started with a 25 member CSA (which has now grown to over 100) and we focused on using the farm as a demonstration and education farm. The methods we use are based on organic farming best practices and Growing Power methods. We’ve spent the last 19 years working to restore the soil quality through cover cropping and rotation and we currently grow over 150 varieties of vegetables and fruit. Jacquelyn Zita, our Director of Operations, manages the farm.