“You’re not experiencing agriculture standing in a parking lot in front of a table of vegetables. That’s what most markets are like,” she said. “When you come to my field and you get a basket, we’re helping you pick carrots and we’re showing you how tomatoes ripen. It puts a face on the whole process of growing food.”
“You have to pick it, store it, prep it, process it, bunch it, bag it,” she said. “That really limits the amount that two people can do.”Neubauer is writing a book about agritourism and hopes it will not only save farms and help them thrive but also help communities learn more about where their food comes from, which is where the regenerative system fits.
“Little farms like ours, these small farms growing food for communities, are a drop in the bucket on acreage,” she said. “So in an offseason, you’re planting a kind of crop that will help pull nitrogen from the air, put it into the plants and at the end of the season, you shred the plant, which decomposes and puts that nitrogen in soil,” Brooke said, as an example.
Along with selling an abundance of fruits and vegetables, the farm allows kids to interact with farm animals.