Earth Apple Organic Farm
Earth Apple Organic Farm was founded in 2011. Shirlene Cote (former sole proprietor) and Michael Nyberg (formerly of New Mountain Farm 2011-2019) merged their businesses and lives in 2020. The two farmers put together have 20 years of experience growing organic garlic, vegetables, some fruit and nearly 6 years experience raising hens on pasture for eggs.
We are shareholders of the Glen Valley Organic Farm Co-operative, a land co-operative, in Abbotsford, BC, which is a beautiful 50 acre property with much wildlife and natural waterways that meet with the Salmon migrations of the mighty Fraser River that we reside alongside.
We acknowledge the traditional ancestral unceded shared territory of the Sumas First Nation and Mastqui First Nation. We believe in growing sustenance food and we subsidize our love of labour by growing some other fun things too like cut flowers and salad greens. We have some passions in particular that become evident in viewing our fields. Farmer Mike has a healthy obsession with garlic (#NewMountainGarlic) and Farmer Shirlene sure loves her potatoes. They grow carrots and peas, rhubarb and berries, kale and chard, onions and beans, tomatoes and eggplant, squashes and melons, and a few other things in between. All together we grow around 40-50 different types of crops all certified organic on a cultivated area of about 6 acres. We also care for 300 laying hens that live on pasture. We put much effort into regenerative agriculture, cover cropping, building soil, rotating hens through our fields and rotational crop planning.
