We will never use chemical pesticides, herbicides, fungicides, or synthetic fertilizers at Odd Crop. Everything we do is for the long-term health and care of the land, the soil, and the ecosystem we are growing in. We believe in other methods like cover cropping, crop rotation, drip-irrigation, limited-till, row covers, bug netting, hand-dug raised beds, composting, mulching, and much more. We are not organic certified, because that takes several years of production and requires a hefty certification fee. When the time comes for certification we will decide if it’s worth it for our production!

We are growing in our hometown region and want to feed anyone who is local and would like our slow grown food. It takes a lot of labor hours and upfront costs to produce slow-scale organic food, but we don’t want to feed only those who have the economic ability to order from us. So we are working on putting together a long term Community Food Program, but for now are calling on the larger community to support with our Donate Community Share or you can donate directly via our Donate page.

We never want to take advantage of other workers via Odd Crop. The reality is we chose to grow at a smaller scale (2.5 acres) because it doesn’t require us to get more help via employees. As former farm crew members we know how tight it is for farm owners, but it’s also that much more impossible to make a living wage as a crew member too. We do not wish to continue that struggle