Our Story
Seedbed Community Farm is located in Mebane, NC. We grow organic vegetables and raise animals for a CSA and garden stand. Our farm provides a space for community members to grow food together, to access land and nature, and to learn about agriculture, the environment, and our world.
Our farm began as a vegetable garden 2016 where members of a small community gathered on weekends to learn gardening practices and work together to produce healthy, organic vegetables at a low cost small plot. This collaboration was so fruitful that in 2017 we launched our community supported agriculture project, where members support the farm by purchasing farm shares and often by joining in the work. We expanded our small garden plot to cover several fields and two of our members became full-time farm managers. Since then we have planted fruit trees and added chickens, turkeys, guinea hens and goats to our farm community. We also hold workshops and seminars to share our knowledge and to learn from others.
Our farming practices
We study and incorporate farming practices from many different traditions — from the traditional milpa practices of southern Mexico that grow complentary crops together to french intensive gardening that allows us to make the most of every garden bed, to the latest no-till regenerative practices for building soil — as part of our ongoing work to develop a bio-diverse, resilient agricultural ecosystem that is embedded within a rich social fabric. While we are not a certified organic farm, our practices are organic. We never use synthetic herbicides or pesticides or GMOs.