About Lunar Hollow Farm

Lunar Hollow Farm is a few acres of beautiful land outside of Deerfield, Wisconsin. We moved to this place in September of 2018, and in our first growing season of 2019 we created many medicinal beds, a large food garden, installed 2 orchard spaces, got chickens, and started beehives. In 2019 we expanded our planting areas, started mushroom logs, and created more food beds. In 2020, we added a greenhouse, expanded our bulb and perennial cutting flowers, and added more woodland medicinals. 2021 saw us add raised beds for greens and food we want to keep the deer/voles/groundhogs/skunks out of, as well as additional woodland and shade medicinals. For 2022, we have big plans to expand even more, and create more underplantings and integrate our food forest areas with other edible and medicinal plants. 

​At Lunar Hollow Farm we use organic and permaculture principles. As a white person using the principles of permaculture, I acknowledge that permaculture comes from practices created by indigenous cultures and peoples around the world for thousands of years, and was appropriated by white men in a position of power over the past few decades. I acknowledge I am privileged to own land, and that I am using processes created by indigenous people. To me, the principles of permaculture go beyond food forests and soil building and are principles that can be used to create a more equitable, restorative, and cooperative community.

LUNAR HOLLOW PLANS:
2020 was an interesting year. We planned on having people here to volunteer to help me with medicinal herb growing for HWB, volunteers helping in the US Community Apothecary for HWB that is located here, and to offer plant walks, classes, and other educational events and activities. With COVID, that all changed, and so the focus instead was on getting a greenhouse, starting medicinal trees and endangered medicinal natives in that space, expanding fruit, food, and orchard. And, expanding the perennial medicinals both in prairie, beds, and woods. We have a large woodland garden started that includes mushroom logs and many wonderful native medicinals. 

As we navigate how this might work into the future with covid, our US Community Apothecary space is going strong, our gardens are going strong, and there is much still to do. 

Lunar Hollow is Denise, Brice, Aidan, and Gavin. We also have a dog, a few cats, and several chickens.