Blue Crow Botanicals
Blue Crow Botanicals is a small herb company. We organically grow and wild harvest medicinal herbs and process them into extracts and oils to express their healing power. Blue Crow is intentionally a small, local business in order to preserve the personal relationship we have with the plants and the medicine we make as well as our clients and community.
The Compost Co-operative
The Compost Co-operative is a worker-owned business. Our customers are valued investors in the community. We are committed to building with others a local economic infrastructure that is socially just, economically sustainable, and environmentally sound.
The People’s Medicine Project
The People’s Medicine Garden contains medicinal plants from the Americas and Eurasia. In our medicine garden, we choose plants that are easy to grow, safe, and tasty, and focus on teaching simple remedies and preparations. Weekly throughout the growing season, we gather with volunteers to tend the garden, harvest herbs, and make medicine. The herbs are dried for teas, or made into tinctures for the clinic, or taken home by volunteers. There’s always plenty to share!
Sage Farm
Sage Farm produces heritage breed, pastured pork. All pigs are grazed using intensive rotational methods, ensuring maximum foraging and resulting in incredibly flavorful pork. Our pork is available at Sutter Meats, Atlas Farm Store, and the Greenfield Farmers’ Market. We also offer horse-powered logging services. We are a licensed timber harvester and available for contract with foresters and landowners.
Pollinator Project
Just Roots recognizes the important role native pollinators play in our food and ecosystem, and our local food economy.
Native pollinator species are on the decline. Some of the native pollinator species that used to frequent our farm are no longer here, but with an investment of time, materials and infrastructure, Just Roots aims to create an environment on the farm that helps to draw them back and build the health of their population and the health of our farm.
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Individuals, institutions, even municipalities seek to support the health of pollinators. Just Roots is working to create a native pollinator nursery program to help supply its own farm as well as these other outlets with the plants and seeds they need to play a role in building the health of our native pollinator populations and in so doing, supporting a healthier local food system.
Just Root’s Pollinator project is a mission-driven program that aims to
1) support native pollinators,
2) invest in overall health of our food system and farm-scape,
3) educate folks on the importance of supporting our native pollinators, and
4) offer clean (NO-Neonics) native herbaceous pollinator plants to the public through farms markets, JR’s CSA and other food programs.
Project Plan:
Phase 1: 12 varieties of native pollinator attracting plants will be selected to begin our own nursery. We will be saving seeds but are also investing in startup seeds/plantings to help catapult the nursery program. 6 new pollinator beds are being added to our farm-scape, filled with compost, planted and mulched. Seeds will be continually propagated. Cold frame system are being added to support the over-wintering of plants.
Phase 2: As Just Roots undergoes the installation of a 5 acre community solar project in the future, opportunities for additional tree and shrub plantings along a natural fence line will not only attract native pollinators but add to the native plantings on the farm.
Greening Greenfield
Project Partners: Thanks to the support we have received from the Claneil Foundation and Greening Greenfield, Just Roots is able to invest in the infrastructure and time needed to bring the Pollinator Project to fruition. We are deeply grateful for the support we’ve received from these groups that go to support the global health of our farm and our food system.