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How It All Started/Who Are We?
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Erich Burton, creator of 2 Beans or Not 2 Beans Farm, grew up on Wolfville farmer’s markets and music. A Love of the outdoors guided Erich to work seasonally as a tree planter in Western Canada since 2009, allowing time in the colder months to volunteer on permaculture farms and natural building projects across the globe.
Erich has collaborated with many different projects over the years that have all accumulated into the 2 Beans Farm Dream.
A journey over a decade in the making, from off-grid Earthship home construction and study in New Mexico and the Iroquois 6 Nations Reserve, to permaculture farm work trades in California, Mexico, Guatemala, and Costa Rica, to regenerative farming communities in Portugal and Spain, to a rammed-earth-built school house in Nepal, International volunteering on grassroots projects have deeply influenced Erich, allowing him to form a skill-set and vision for what he’d like to create here in Gaspereau as 2 Beans or not 2 Beans Farm !
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Meg Henwood is an organic farmer and community herbalist. She is passionate about seed saving, labyrinth walking and designing, the healing power of herbs and their integral part of the food system, permaculture, farming by hand, caring for animals, and community engagement in the garden! She enjoys art, music, dancing, drawing and writing and sees farming as an essential creative outlet to express her joys in the garden. She continues to work on her long term vision of community supported agriculture through interactive play and learning on the land with workshops, Community Labyrinth and Community Seed Vault.
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Meg started farming on Vancouver Island with Kildara Farms a certified organic family farm, she worked with the family for four seasons. She went on to start her own farm in 2019 for 3 seasons and arrived at 2 Beans Farm in June 2022.
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Principles​
With the ever-changing, uncertain state of the global economy, we increasingly recognize the importance of growing healthy, tasty food that local customers can trust. We focus on organic regeneration of the soil and biological soil health as a means to ensure quality in nutrient density and flavour in our produce. We sell at Local Farmers Markets directly to our customers.
We avoid the use any synthetic chemical pesticides or fertilizers on the farm and work on building soil fertility and native micro-biology for long-term regeneration of the land. We source rich, finished compost from local livestock ranchers, integrate leaf mulch, cardboard, unsprayed hay, and allow pasture grazing of laying hens to build organic matter in the field. We mainly use broadforks and tarps to stimulate earthworm activity as well as feed our own earthworm castings bin to colonize our compost piles.
We are embracing our pace of learning throughout this process and strive to incorporate permaculture principles in our farm design www.permacultureprinciples.com
Learning through patient observation and interaction of the land, working with nature rather than against it, and referring to elder farmers in the surrounding area for experienced guidance when applicable as well as follow textbook methods from Jean-Martin Fortier's Ferme de Quatre Temps.
