This is our little slice of paradise and haven for learning here in Carpinteria.

Jose Cardiel and I are working together on this property as a fluid, learning example project.

We are on a slow mission to create a simple, duplicatable, little to no-till permanent bed Bio-dynamic farming system that is easy to do and scalable for our bigger farmer friends.

There are a lot of problems in Agriculture. While we seek out the best farmers with the most sustainable practices, growing the cleanest, healthiest food for you to eat, we also see the major room for improvement. And while they are the best for now, they are not the best from what has been done before nor the best of what is to come.

If there’s anything that we are as a business, it is that we are future optimists.

We believe in the eternal struggle to do better, and don’t expect or demand more from anyone else, that we cannot do ourselves.

So, that’s where we find ourselves at 3155 Foothill Road. Striving to do better ourselves, and then striving to package what we do as a profitable, duplicatable, easy to implement system for those around us.

The dream is that 5 years from now, Jose and I have developed such a straight forward simple way to tractor farm and nourish the soil, that we can go to Driscolls and Boskvich and not “cancel culture” them for repeatedly ripping and discing their soil, leaving it dry and lifeless. But rather say, “hey, why don’t we inoculate the soil, feed the bacteria, rip the bed, shovel the furrows, throw a quick, light surface till and plant straight back in a quick cover crop or a beneficial succession planting.”

Because that is where future optimists are trying to go. Away from cancel culture and towards better practices.

With that said, Jose is starting his first round of bio-dynamics at the farm, spreading his first finished compost, moving the chickens around, and looking for more food scraps to compost. Hopefully we will have our “better bucket” compost program up and running soon…

See you next week. Keep your chin up. And turn the TV off until January 21. Better days are coming as long as we all do our best and help those around us.

Jason Lesh

Farm Cart Organics, Founder

P.S. We want your boxes back! We are saving them, cooking them in the UV rays to kill off any Covid remnants, and are looking forward to the day that we can start re-circulating them. It has been super painful to know that we have been creating more waste than normal during the past 7 months of Covid. Please help us come back to normalcy.