At Wild Scallions Farm, we are devoted to growing beautiful foods and flowers for our community while rebuilding topsoil and providing habitat for diversified native insects and birds.
- Building topsoil (aka sequestering carbon) with the aid of green cover crops, obsessive mulching, and minimal tillage.
- Creating a stable farm ecosystem with diversified hedgerows and native flowering plants for beneficial insect and bird habitat.
- Surface water irrigation from rain barrels and ponds
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Wild Scallions Farm is the life work, livelihood, and passion of Matt and Renee Clayton and our daughter Eliza Mae. We farm roughly 5 acres of a diversified mix of orchard trees, woody and herbaceous perennials, and annual fields spread out on the south and western slopes of Mount Tirzah in southern Person County, We practice crop rotation with our annual fields, the more complicated the better!
We have been farming here since 2004, bringing our produce and flowers to the Durham Farmers market.
Our farm also includes a homestead herd of La Mancha dairy goats. They are pastured in the woods surrounding our fields, creating a "goat moat" to reduce deer and groundhog pressure in the fields. The goats also happily consume many many weeds, orchard prunings, woody okra stalks and more and provide our family with milk and manure for compost, and generally contribute to a "no waste" farm with plenty of nutrient cycling.
We have been farming here since 2004, bringing our produce and flowers to the Durham Farmers market.
Our farm also includes a homestead herd of La Mancha dairy goats. They are pastured in the woods surrounding our fields, creating a "goat moat" to reduce deer and groundhog pressure in the fields. The goats also happily consume many many weeds, orchard prunings, woody okra stalks and more and provide our family with milk and manure for compost, and generally contribute to a "no waste" farm with plenty of nutrient cycling.