A Growing Field

This article is about Nature Edge Farm that’s run by a man named John Christian, an organic farmer, living on four and a half acres of land in Canterbury, Connecticut. Christian has a farm and a greenhouse, which springs and ponds help him nature his plants and farming. Christian had bought the land three years ago to raise goats and chickens. As an organic farmer he suspects not to be rich. But he does hope that his soil in his greenhouse does. Organic farmers don’t use fertilizer nor chemical pesticides, but they do study the soil to help plants grow through nature.

In Christian’s greenhouse, he grows lettuce, arugula, kale, and bok choy. In the winter when herbs grow along with the plants, he makes the herbs into olive oil and soap. He sells it to the farmers markets three days a week. He works everyday, which he says he never has a day off.

In 2007, Michigan State University had a program that many students wanted to go to the farm and research what an organic farmer do. Some students never been on a farm but were very interested. The World Wide Opportunities is an organization that gets to work on organic farms in 53 countries.

Jami Morgan, a student of Michigan State University plans to start her own CSA business with her mother and sister in law. She is going to a three month program in France, to research how they grow crops in a different climate.