Shepardale in numbers
Shepardale is subdivided into 2 sections (tap or click the description to highlight it on the map):
- annuals: peppers and strawberries. Contains 10 2.5x50' beds. See the 2025 crop plan
- raspberry patch contains 5 5.0x50' beds.
How we farm here
Our long skinny field on the “other side of the wires,” this area is divided from the rest of the farm by a utility company access road and power lines. Mark Shepard coined the term STUN (Sheer, Totally, Utter Neglect) for his style of farming, and given how often we make it back to this area, we christened it Shepardale in his honor. It is home to our apiary, a recently planted raspberry patch, and a small area for vegetables we want to keep isolated from others for seed-saving purposes. We also store woodchips here – loads and loads of woodchips.