Organic Agriculture Demonstration Farm

The Real Economic Society’s demonstration farm is an experimental agricultural operation where we seek to imbue the landscape with natural diversity by minimizing the impact of our agricultural production. We achieve this by ranking output below special diversity and health of the overall ecological setting.

We are  constrained by the limitations of our property border, which abuts with a 60 acre parcel that is farmed using industrial mono-cropping methods such as heavy mechanical tillage, multiple aerosol treatments of various chemical pesticides, chemical fertilization and single crop production; essentially a soil micro-biome dessert.

On the other border we have a nursery tree farmer with an unfortunate affinity for Roundup, which, as is in constant use by both neighbours, represents our biggest ecological threat.

We have excavated deep ditches down the length of either side of the property to divert the runoff from these neighbours into the Grand River, which is contaminated cess-pool where cows just upstream stand in the river defecating, and the RV resorts lining the river routinely dump untreated sewage directly into the river.

Despite these contamination sources on our borders, our soil tests reveal zero contamination from any of those sources, and so we also experience such a robust diversity of species that its more of a wildlife preserve than a farm.

Nonetheless, our vegetable, fruit and herb production are outstanding, even though we have to live with a continuous exploitation of our agricultural handiwork by the very flora and fauna we prioritize.

We are seeking to prove a macro-theory that the presence of one organic, regenerative ecological farm has an outward-radiating rehabilitative influence, as increased populations of species nurtured by our property’s natural abundance fosters recovering populations of species destroyed or displaced by the scorched-earth approach of our neighbours.

After the population peaks and the convergence of ecological failures drives human population sharply lower in the next century, it is our conviction that the future of humanity lies in the Real Economic approach to everything.

Farming Organically is the Noblest Profession

The opportunity inherent in operating an organic regenerative and permaculture-oriented farm in the context of economics and ecology is priceless. A truly sustainable food production farm incorporates the diversity of nature with the absence of synthetic, engineered genetics and chemical inputs.

A farm is the embodiment of economics; a microcosm of economic productivity that recognizes the fundamental nature of the ecological primacy of the economic possibility, and seeks to align its husbandry with that priority foremost.

But rather than view the land as an asset to be exploited as is the current economic default, we regard the land as part of the skin of the living organism called Earth, a biological space ship upon which we all hurtle through the heavens together on at unfathomable speeds, twirling endlessly throughout time and space.

If we fail to recognize this reality, and realign our behaviours towards its rehabilitation and ecological diversity, then we will become just another barren dustball, careening along with faint traces of the promise of what was once the human race.