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Email: Fieldtoforkfarm@gmail.com

Phone: 970-216-2642

Address: 3526 Front Street, Palisade, CO 81526

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Who Are We?

We are Scott and Jessica Washkowiak our farming journey together began in San Diego California when we were foot loose and fancy free surfing and traveling. We are both avid Skateboarders, Snowboarders, Surfers and cyclists fueling our bodies for our sports lead us to the Organic Life we live today. The closer we got to our food the better we felt and growing our own food gave us the opportunity to give the respect we wanted to give the earth and the natural world. Our love of food and farming grew into our farm that we share with the Communities of Western Colorado. We have been farming side by side since 2008. We worked on many different organic farms and orchards and eventually we started Field To Fork in Palisade Colorado in 2011 we began leasing land and in 2014 we purchased the land of the Field To Fork Homestead.

Scott was raised in La Salle Illinois and worked on farms as a young man. Scott also attended Colorado State University 1995-1998 and Studied Horticulture and worked at the Universities Bio-dynamic Organic Communal Farm. Scott loved farming but snowboarding and Surfing took over his Twenties and in 2006 he meet Jessica in Breckenridge, Colorado. When they meet he told her he wanted to have a organic farm one day and be a organic farmer. At the time he was working in landscaping and he also owned and operated a small business hosting guests on Surf Safari Tours in Baja Mexico (Surf Sherpa). Scott need a cook one year for Surf Sherpa and Jessica said “I can cook” off to Baja they went and have been together ever since. A few years later after living in Breckenridge, Colorado and Baja, Mexico seasonally they really wanting to settle down and farm and surf more. May of 2008 Scott and Jessica moved to Oceanside, California and Scott started working on Organic Farms and building his skills and gained more knowledge. Scott has 25+ years of farming experience and education.

Jessica was raised in Grand Junction, Colorado and her ties to the Grand Valley lead them back to Palisade, Colorado in 2011. Jessica attended Colorado Mesa University and studied Television and Radio Broadcast. Cooking has been a passion for Jessica since she was young and using organic farm fresh produce took her cooking to the next level. Scott would bring fresh produce home from the farms he worked at and soon she was volunteering and wanting to learn as much as she could about gardening and farming. Jessica found herself having a green thumb and enjoyed working outside in the gardens and orchards farming and gardening took all her time and dedication. Sharing the bounty of their labor is the most rewarding aspect of her work. Jessica has 14+ years of farming experience.

“Growing food and sharing the high quality ingredients raised on our farm is the most rewarding work of our lives. We are very happy to spend our life together running our farm and serving our community”.

What Do We Do?

Currently we operate 20,000+ square feet of greenhouses and a large market garden that consists of 200 x 100ft permanent no/low till garden bed systems. Our farm also has a 4 acre orchard of mixed Stone and Pomme fruit. We like to think of our farm as a dynamic hybrid market farm. We raise pasture raised chickens for eggs and meat production as well as pasture raised hogs. We are certified organic by the USDA.

HOW?

In our market gardens and greenhouses we use a biological soil system approach. Our systems are natural and the way family farms used to be. Our farm is highly productive and we do this through balanced soils, intense planting and strategic planning. Over time we have been very successful and know our methods grow beautiful nutrient dense produce.

Our focus is healthy soils that simply grow high quality produce. We spend most of our time balancing and adding proper nutrition to our soil for each specific crop. We amend the proper nutrients every time we plant any certain crops. If the soil is balanced and healthy it will grow healthy plants naturally with no artificial chemicals. We don’t use any petrol based fertilizers, herbicides or fungicides. Every material amendment we add for control systems on the Field To Fork Farm are plant, animal or mineral based controls derived from nature and made for human use and consumption. Field To Fork is Certified Organic by the USDA. We follow the Biodynamic Calendar and perform all the Biodynamic Preperations on our farm.

Field To Fork

3526 Front Street
Palisade, CO 81526

970-216-2642