Dry Farmed Varieties

Dry farming is the growth of crops without irrigation. Common in areas that experience a cool, wet spring followed by a warm, dry season, shifts in weather patterns suggest dry farming is a practice becoming more suitable for Michigan - especially given July 2018's total rainfall of a mere 0.6 inches!

Each year grown, seeds develop their "memory" of the conditions experienced by its mother plant, building resilience to environmental stresses. Our intention is to develop multi-generational dry farmed lines to better position our gardens for the shifting growing conditions.

We routinely rely on heavy mulching of our dry farmed varieties.

Be sure to check our Digital Resources Collection for informative files including Dry-Farming: Its Principles and Practices