Freedom Farm Asks For Donations

Freedom Farm, a non-commercial experimental agricultural research station, is expanding operations this year and seeks donations of material, new or used.

With several hundred trees to plant, Freedom Farm can use your cast off and surplus farming supplies. We need stakes to hold up baby trees (most are 2 yeas old, at about 4 feet tall); rebar to secure drip irrigation lines and make individual enclosures; and fencing, particularly chicken wire, to keep critters out. Anyone with stakes of any size, and/or pieces of straight or candy cane shaped rebar of any size, or any pieces or rolls of any kind of fencing, that they are willing to part with, are requested to contact us!

Also desired is: shade cloth (material that allows sunlight through but provides some shade for tender plants), lumber for above ground planting boxes (such sizes as 2 x 8, 2 x 10 & 2 x 12, of any length), canopy parts (connectors and poles) to erect shade structures, irrigation parts (tubing, connectors, sprinklers, etc.), shiny and sparkly things to hang on wires to scare off birds, bird netting, and such like.

We have waiting to go into the ground (in D pot plugs and 1 gallon pots): 30 crab apples, 20 native lilac, 40 native plum, 170 lace bark elm (does not get elm disease), 300 Nan King cherries, 15 vining honeysuckle, 40 non-vining honeysuckle, 40 wild rose, and a handful of other things.

All of this will take a lot of stakes, rebar, fencing and such. And once the fruit trees begin to bare we will need ways to keep the birds away. Any assistance you can render will be appreciated by us, and our trees.

About Freedom Farm
Freedom Farm was established by a group of writers, researchers, environmental activists and gardening enthusiasts on privately owned land. Its purpose is to generate real world experience and techniques in organic high altitude desert farming, which can be used by the participants to improve not only their own lives, but the lives of the millions around the world who live in similar conditions. We hope to achieve this through the written reports of "Freedom Farmers" in various agricultural and "back to the land" publications and via email. Freedom Farm is all about discovering earth-friendly ways to improve the lot of the subsistence farmer.

Nestled in the sage and juniper forest that is the northern Nevada wilderness, it is located just above the 6,000 foot level in the Pah Raw Mountains of the Monte Cristo Ranch area above Palomino Valley, about 40 miles northeast of Reno, Nevada. Perched on the steep slopes of a remote mountain canyon, Freedom Farm is only accessible via Jeep trail, and then usually only from April to October. Visitors enjoy incredible views of the valleys north of Reno across into the Sierras and beyond, into California.

With a year-round stream crossing at the bottom of the property there is tremendous abundance of wild life -- quail, chukar, cottontail and jack rabbits, coyote, chipmunk, vole, squirrel, antelope, deer, wild horses and once, a bear. Although the property is nearly 100 acres, only about 15, on the Jeep trail side of the stream, have been subjected to human impact. The largest portion (roughly 85 acres) is on the far side of the stream, and has been kept pristine.

Agricultural activities began at Freedom Farm in 1995 with the planting of our first experimental orchard of some 25 fruit trees, and an equal number of berry bushes. Over the years more than three dozen individuals and families have contributed to our various research programs and projects. With each new growing season we have expanded, to where today we have roughly a dozen experimental plots plus a greenhouse and nursery, and related operations.

We plan to plant most of the fruit trees in an 5 acre area at the far end of Freedom Farm from the existing garden area. The elms and other non-fruiting plants will be planted around a portion of the farm's perimeter as windbreak and habitat, and to mitigate the visual impact of the existence of the farm from those venturing up the private "road." The fruit orchard will have a surrounding fence, but the perimeter trees will need individual enclosures to keep the wildlife out (until the trees are large enough).

Again, this is a non-commercial, co-operative venture. Freedom Farm is operated by an all volunteer, part-time staff. Our intent is to learn how to grow our own food, and to share that food and knowledge with friends and like-minded people. The owner of the property, Mr. Robert Sonderfan, has not made a penny on this to date, and indeed, has spent many thousands of dollars out of his own pocket. Freedom Farm is solely a labor of love. Your donations are not tax deductible, yet. However, you may gain the pleasure of helping out -- and getting some sticks, rebar or junk fencing off your property.




Freedom Farm Asks For Donations



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