Enchanting Acres
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About
Enchanting Acres is a second generation family runned farm. Although, Enchanting Acres, has just arisen this year, it has served as both a vegetable garden and home for 13 sheep for 20 years. Jim and Deborah's granddaughter, Kyra Barnard, has come on board to manage and sprout this land into Enchanting Acres: a vegetable, mushroom and flower farm. We utilize organic (non-certified) practices, restoration of the soil, as the center of our growing operations. Bringing nutritionally dense and organically (non-certified) farm food to the local community is at the forefront of Enchanting Acres Mission. As farmers, we want to centralize education around nutrition and aid in bringing food access, justice, and food sovereignty to Columbians and surrounding neighborhoods.
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Production Practices
Permaculture is a system of growing that aims to mimics the way that nature naturally produces food. It abides by the concept of doing more good by being stewards of the land. This entails practices of restoring the soil by nitrogen fixing plants, promoting and facilitating bio-diversity of plants, insects, and pollinators. Permaculture partial mission is withholding the use of chemical based fertilizers and pesticides that pollute our soil and the environment.
Location
Columbia, MO
Manager
Kyra Barnard, a native of Columbia, has graduated from Naropa University in Boulder, CO, with a degree in environmental studies and with an emphasis in permaculture and food justice. Kyra has assumed the role of Farm Manager. Jim and Deborah Barnard have lived here for over 37 years and both attended Mizzou. Jim has retired from Columbia Insurance Company as a claims adjuster. He farmed on and off for a large portion of his life. Deborah Barnard has retired after 35 years as a cardiac RN. A large portion of her working experience was in dietary teaching for cardiac, diabetic and other type of diseases.