About Us

Ceres & Co. is USDA Certified Organic. Our greenhouse produces certified organic plants in the spring, and our gardens are brimming with produce! We are small - only about a quarter of an acre garden - but use intensive gardening methods.

In the off-season, we get busy with bread baking organic bread. French baguettes and hearty braided whole wheat, oat and nut loaves are our specialties. We do not have a certified inspected kitchen.

Ingredients We Use

Our plants are raised in OMRI approved potting soil, we use organic seeds when available and if not, then no treated or GMO seeds. As for bugs, so far we have been lucky - by letting the bugs work things out for themselves, we are not destroying beneficial bugs and they do seem to stay pretty much in balance. We do hand pick potato bugs and take them to the chickens.

Our Practices

In addition to being Certified Organic, we use biodynamic organic farming practices (but are not certified). We apply BD-500 (made here on the farm with our own manure) in spring and fall. An organic dairy herd resides here, so we have plenty of access to organic manure. Mulching, composted manure and organic plants and seeds work together to produce excellent crops. Ruth Stout’s book, No Work Gardening, has had a great influence on my farming practices.

Highlights

We grow 53 different heirloom tomatoes, all different shapes, sizes, colors and flavors! In addition, we have onions, potatoes, leeks, squash and greens.

Our herbs are packaged in biodegradable cellulose bags.

Misc.

For more information on biodynamics, go here: http://www.biodynamics.com/node/111

For more information on our source of organic herbs and spices, go here: http://www.mountainroseherbs.com/about/otoc.html

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