Aspire Regenerative farm
Grown with intention
Grow more than a harvest.
Aspire is a diversified family farm building healthier soil, stronger local food systems, and a season worth gathering around.
Rooted here since 1998
Farming for the long view.
We grow food the way a good future demands: with patient rotations, living roots, careful water use, and a market close enough to know by name.
Our 420 acres are managed as one connected habitat—part working farm, part watershed, and part promise to whoever tends this ground next.
- Land in active cover crop rotation
- 82%
- Pollinator strips
- 14mi
- Growing seasons
- 28and counting
Below the surface
One farm.
Three living systems.
Healthy fields are not managed one input at a time. Explore the relationships we watch every day.
The carbon bank
Keep a living root in the ground.
Multi-species cover crops feed soil biology between harvests, building structure that holds water and supports the next crop.
- Organic matter trend
- +0.7% since 2021
Every drop placed
Irrigate from real field signals.
Moisture probes and low-pressure drip lines help us water the crop zone—not the road, the wind, or yesterday's forecast.
- Water use reduction
- 24% per produce acre
Edges that work
Make room for useful wildness.
Native borders slow runoff, shelter beneficial insects, and turn the spaces between fields into connected habitat.
- Native species planted
- 36 across field borders
The farm keeps time
Every season.
Hands at work.
Turn the field dial to see how a full year of work becomes one generous harvest.
Season ledger2026
- Field checks
- 186 / year
- Daylight range
- 5.8 hours
Field phase 01
Wake the soil.
We test, plan, transplant, and time the first passes around soil temperature—not the calendar alone.
- Soil sampling
- Transplanting
- Pollinator seeding
Field phase 02
Tend the momentum.
Long days bring irrigation checks, succession plantings, and the first full harvest rhythm of the year.
- Precision irrigation
- Weekly harvest
- Habitat scouting
Field phase 03
Gather and return.
The farm reaches peak color while crop residue and new cover crops begin feeding the next cycle.
- Storage harvest
- Cover crop drilling
- Community suppers
Field phase 04
Listen and plan.
Quiet fields give us time to repair equipment, study records, and map a smarter rotation for spring.
- Crop planning
- Equipment care
- Seed selection
Meet the ground first
Better farming starts with paying attention.
“The field tells you what it needs. Our job is to notice before we decide.”
That is how farm manager Eli Mercer approaches every acre: boots on the ground, records in hand, and no single recipe forced across unlike fields.
Field principle 04Measure what matters. Change what helps.
Harvest house / 7:40 a.m.
Picked close.
Packed with purpose.
Today's wash line
1,240 lb
Greens, roots, herbs, and summer fruit headed to local kitchens within 48 hours.
Leaf & herb
Tender greens cut cool and washed once.
Roots
Carrots, beets, and radishes with real field flavor.
Vine crop
Sun-ripened tomatoes, peppers, and squash.
Grain & pulse
Small grains and dry beans for pantry staples.
Trace your food
A short trip, fully visible.
Follow one harvest from living seed to a table in our community. Every stop is close enough to know.
LOT ASP-2604 / START
Choose for place, not fashion.
We select proven varieties for our soil, climate, flavor, and the kitchens they are headed toward.
- Farm distance
- 0 miles
- Recorded
- February 18
LOT ASP-2604 / GROW
Build resilience into every row.
Scouting, careful irrigation, and flowering borders support the crop without separating it from the landscape.
- Farm distance
- 0.6 miles
- Field days
- 74
LOT ASP-2604 / PICK
Harvest at the useful moment.
Crews pick in the cool hours and move produce quickly to shade, preserving texture before the first mile.
- Farm distance
- 1.1 miles
- Picked
- 6:15 a.m.
LOT ASP-2604 / READY
Cool, clean, and keep it simple.
The harvest is washed only as needed, cooled promptly, and packed in reusable crates for the day's route.
- Farm distance
- 1.4 miles
- Ready
- 9:40 a.m.
LOT ASP-2604 / ARRIVE
Delivered while the field is fresh.
Restaurants, schools, and families receive the crop through a route designed to keep food close and accountable.
- Average trip
- 38 miles
- Elapsed
- Under 48 hr
Measured in more than yield
Progress you can walk through.
Our goals are practical, public, and tied to the ground beneath us.
Field health pulse2022–26
Food donated annually
18tons
Local partners
46kitchens
Packaging reused
91%
Next landmark
100 acres of connected native habitat by 2029.
Come see what is growing
Meet us at the field edge.
Walk the cover crops, visit the harvest house, and leave with something that was in the ground that morning.
- 01 Field gateMeet your farm guide.
- 02 Growing groundWalk the active fields.
- 03 Harvest houseFinish where food is packed.