The Forbes Family Farm

About us

We weren’t born farmers, but an interest in healthy eating and a passion for cooking led us to start gardening in whatever space we had available. We bought a basil plant to grow in our windowsill and soon turned our little condo balcony into a container garden with tomatoes, peppers and lettuce. As our family grew we moved into a little house with a great backyard. We began to grow more of our own produce, planted fruit trees and got backyard chickens. 

We’ve always had an appreciation for healthy eating, but our understanding of what healthy eating looks like has changed over the course of the last 15 years. There are so many trends and guidelines around healthy eating, it can often be hard to know who to trust. While we have dabbled in some of the trends ourselves, we often come back to a quote from Michael Pollen, “Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants.” Eating food…that’s ultimately what led us down this path to becoming farmers. There are a lot of “food-like products” out there that may fill our stomachs, but they lack the wholesome nutrients of organically grown fruits and vegetables or the rich protein and flavor of animals allowed to forage in their natural environments.