Beyond the Label: What “Organic” Really Means on Our Farm

To label something is to define it's characteristics into categories that make it easier for us to simplify information and make sense of our world.

But it's one thing to label produce as organic, and another thing to truly live organically.

Streamside doesn't exist to sell bourgeoisie vegetables to our wider community, oh no! 

Our produce has a much bigger, more wholesome story behind it; the fruit and vegetables are the product of patience, care and commitment to protecting our soils, our local fauna and flora and, ultimately our (and your) health and well-being.

Our farm is a place where like-minded people have converged to create an incredible community of impassioned individuals, all with the goal of leaving this corner of the world better than we found it.

So we turn our noses up at raping the land to squeeze every last micro-nutrient out.

We say no to chemicals that annihilate everything they touch. We refrain from growing productive crop after productive crop after productive crop.

Rather, we begin from the ground up, focussing on the microbes in our soil and ensuring they are abundant and in good health.

We make sure there are flowering species everywhere around the farm to feed and house local insects.

We adhere to crop rotations that go above and beyond, with interspersion of lush and diverse cover crops. 

Hell, we love cover crops so much, we've even begun sowing them amongst the crops themselves - and it's not to make our vegetable plants produce higher yields over a shorter time frame - that's not the goal at all.

It's to create a haven of good food that's been grown in healthy soil by passionate people - and how do you put that on a label?!