Bluebird Canyon Farms is a 15 acre biodynamic urban farm located near the coast within the San Joachim Hills. In addition to supplying fresh produce and clean, value added products to our community the Farm’s highest purpose is to provide hands-on training to diverse groups offering opportunities to learn, plan, develop, operate, and sustain urban agricultural projects. Our educational philosophy is to share the experience and knowledge of our associates allowing others to learn by doing. The Farm contains both conventional and non-conventional agricultural elements, and was developed according to permaculture design principals. The Site features terraced row crop beds for seasonal heirloom vegetable production, Orchards, Aquaculture/Aquaponic facilities, a poultry Aviary, a research Apiary, biodynamic horticultural supplement production facilities, micro-green and fodder production systems, an all-season greenhouse, a medicinal and culinary herb potager, and myco-culture production systems, and an experimental kitchen known as the “Food Lab”. There are also a number of sophisticated water and energy conservation features built into the site including water harvesting and rainfall-runoff management systems as well as a solar electric infrastructure. The farm has an active ecological restoration project on-going to repair erosion damaged hillsides and restore “coastal sage scrub” plant communities impacted by invasive non-native plant species introduced to the site prior to the redevelopment effort begun in 2010. The Farm hosts the Bluebird Canyon Collective, a cooperative guild of artisans and craftsmen who support projects throughout the area including various regenerative landscaping and ecological restoration projects within the State of California.
