About 5,000 acres of the farm are organic, including one amazing stretch where we grow some of our
organic wheat. It's called “the Bench,” and it sits 1,500 feet up a nearby mountain. In the words of
farm manager Patrick Boss, “I
t's just a beautiful location. There's no pests up there. There's no
diseases. It's all by itself. It's hard to get to, but the growing conditions up there are fantastic. It's
purely organic virgin (land) that has never been touched by chemicals, and we're never going to
change it”
“The whole atmopshere of being out there is exciting,” he says. “You're actually producing something
that you know people are going to eat and enjoy, that they're going to touch and feel. That's a big part
of it.”