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. 

​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:
For 2020, we expanded again, and started mushroom logs, expanded our medicinal woodland conservation area, added many native fruit including plum, and expanded our canes and berries. 

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. 

For 2021, we have expanded plans to take our land another step closer to our dream. I am designing systems for my Permaculture Design Certification, and am working to increase our medicinal plants, food plants, compost, conserving and preserving endangered medicinals and natives, and more. 

Our plans for 2021:

• Add another 60-80 plant types to our medicinal and natives gardens
• Increase our permaculture reclamation in our energy optimization and organization
• Integrate fermented plant biological supports and controls In our systems
• Add another 1-2 dozen fruit types
• Expand our trialing areas so that we can trial grains as we work to become more self-sufficient (upland dry rice, quinoa, millet, amaranth, barley, oats).
• Work with farm experiment groups to trial plants that were indigenous to this area in the past
• Grow more seeds to share with our seed grants
• Increase our food and food to share with our local food pantry
• Design and implement water systems to help during dry times and to get rainwater catchment into the back acre
• Build an outdoor kitchen that includes open fire cooking and wood fired oven
• Build a garden washing system where we redirect used plant water back into the gardens
• Expand our native nursery greenhouse to include more future trees and natives
• Plant winecaps to be a part of our woodland medicinal area
• Build a space where people can stay when they come to visit - either an RV, 2-3 season tent on a platform , or a tiny house. 
• Start planning and budgeting to transition our home to solar within 10 years. 
• Create solar systems for the greenhouse and add a drying shed for herbs behind the greenhouse that utilizes the hot greenhouse air.
• And, more!