Synergy Farm was founded with the conviction that a resurgence of small family farms producing food directly for their local communities represents the future, not the past, in American agriculture.

Synergy Farm offers a full range of organically grown summer and winter vegetables to the San Juan Island community, as well as seasonal fruits and berries, pastured poultry and organic eggs and various value-added products.

The farm was started in 2004 on the remaining 16 acres of the historic Schull farm. We were motivated by the challenge of producing healthful food for our local community while preserving and enhancing the natural environment and achieving economic sustainability.

Synergy Farm is distinctive in using the biointensive method, which was developed mainly for household gardens and small subsistence farms. It is being utilized on several million farms in over 130 countries around the world as a way to increase food production while conserving water, soil vitality and fossil fuels.

In scaling up biointensive farming to the level of a market farm, we have demonstrated that this method can also be utilized more widely on small family farms in this country. Indeed, we believe this method has the greatest transformative potential for our food production system over time.

The biointensive method does not require much in the way of capital, or acreage, or technology; it can be done with simple tools. It can also be done in many different sizes and in a variety of locations, from urban rooftops to suburban back yards (and front yards), as well as on re-born family farms like our own. Also, it is a method that is accessible to people who have no prior farming experience.