Juniper Jungle Permaculture Farm

Juniper Jungle Farm is located on the eastern outskirts of Bend, OR. We are cultivating 9 acres of row crops out of 15 for the 2014 growing season. JJF is also home to chickens, ducks, rabbits, turkeys, and seasonal beefs and pigs which help the farms sustainability and fertility. Our farming practices are customer certified organic and are influenced by permaculture and biodynamic principals which are a more holistic approach to agriculture. These methods are the foundation of a once locally based sustainable food system.
Sustainable agriculture does not use non-natural fertilizers or pesticides. We believe in pulling weeds with our tractor, hoes, and hands instead of using herbicides. At Juniper Jungle, we fertilize with manure from a local non-profit horse rescue called Equine Outreach; we compost and till it into the soil for our crops. We spend great energy focusing on soil enrichment because, like any farmer in our area, we grow in a desert climate that doesn’t provide an annual amount of foliar debris to sustain a balanced and productive soil. We are taking many steps to improve the growing environment as responsible land stewards, some of which we’ve listed here: adding plant debris and nutrients through compost, use of mulch to control water and nutrient evaporation out of the soil, use of nitrogen fixing crops, and efficient water management.
We believe in the saying “healthy plants make healthy people,” so we focus on choosing heirloom varieties of vegetables for added taste and health benefits. Heirlooms are varieties of plants that have been chosen and bred by natural means by farmers and horticulturist over generations for the consumers and farmers benefit. Juniper Jungle Farm stands firmly against the use of Genetically Modified seed.