Alegría Montana’s ReGenOrganic R&D Garden Explodes!
From seedling to Jurassic Park proportions in just 7 weeks, our produce from our latest living soil blend is exceptional. Employing new nano-mineral and natural microbe blends, this years’ soil in our 1,600 sf garden has delivered explosive growth and size, more than I’ve ever seen before.
We are enjoying 40” chard, 28” kale fronds, full-size potatoes, broccoli, carrots, and giant beets, 100% free of pests, all within seven weeks of planting.
Our ongoing ReGen soil research proves that soil health relates directly to human and planet health, capable of producing genetically optimized plants with exceptional flavor, nutrient density and unparalleled yield.
Let’s keep on growin’!
Hello from Alegria Montana:)
Spring has finally sprung here (we hope!)
Over the last year, we have made significant progress in our living soil program and are steadily progressing on building out our soil R&D headquarters here in Kalispell, MT.
At Alegría, we believe our most important priority to solve the global food pandemic is to optimize the genetic potential of edible plants through superior living soil. Healthy living soil is the “base of the food chain” and provides the solution to increase human health and resilience.
Balanced mineralization plus abundant highly diverse biology within the soil matrix are the keys to providing plants the ability to achieve the highest levels of nutrient density. In other words, we need a full “gas tank” in the soil for plants to achieve the qualities we require to heal and be resilient to disease.
“Food is Medicine”, a phrase used over 3,000 years ago, resonates more than ever today.
Stay tuned for updates on our progress and let’s keep growing together!
Hello from Alegría Montana!
We are in full summer production of 50 or so high power regenerative organic veggies including an abundance of Swiss chard.
We make sure all our animals partake in the nutrient dense produce, strengthening their resilience and making for some fabulous eggs as well!
In the background, you can see Quackers and her new brood of six fine ducklings who are finally venturing out to explore the grounds with the rest of the flock. All our birds are free range and take advantage our RegenOrganic farm.
More later!
Hello from Alegría Montana,
To our surprise, Quackers, our Buff hen just mothered seven brand new ducklings into the world. They are all healthy and a blend of Buff and Harlequin duck, hence the beautiful unique orange/black coloring:)
Life on a working Regenerative farm is hard to describe; lots of work, surprises around every corner, kinda’ like controlled chaos, lol.
I would not trade this healthy life for anything, and I am full of gratitude to be part of regenerating soil, animals and of course, people!
Let’s keep on growing!
Hello from Alegría Montana!
At Alegría, we practice RegenOrganic principles to increase soil health.
Planting ryegrass helps keep the nitrogen in the soil profile and makes more N available for the crop the following year.
In addition to fast germination and being very hardy, ryegrass is excellent at improving soil fertility. Using annual ryegrass as a cover crop produces organic biomass that increases the soil organic matter and fertility. It is also good feed for our cows and deer love it.
Rye is the most winter hardy of all small grains. It can be sown late to provide fall grazing, excellent winter cover, and spring grazing. Rye's rapid growth makes it the most productive small grain for pasture and it can be grazed as quickly as 4 to 6 weeks after planting.
Let’s keep on growin’
Soil first!
That is our mantra here at Alegría Montana! Our agronomy team, Amy Gardner and Dennis Brosten are working with us to evaluate and improve our soil health using regenerative organic processes.
Amy is testing for “soil life,” called the biomass of the soil microbiome, using a relatively new tool called the microbiometer. This allows us to get a baseline of today’s soil microbe density and by adding probiotics to the soil, increase our soil microbe biodiversity and density, which translates directly into nutrient-density.
We’ll keep you posted on the findings!
Let’s keep on growin’!
It’s spring here in Kalispell, Montana and as usual, we are still seeing snow flurries in between showers and bright sun.
I’d like to introduce you all to Montana “mountain worms”, which as you can see are very resilient, even in freezing temperatures. In order to develop a large supply of biologically-rich compost, we had our cows poop in a long canal for eight months last year and we layered the manure with straw and dusted it with micronized minerals. Over the winter, which lasted nearly five months, the compost broke down into beautiful finished soil, with lots of happy worms in a gorgeous black soil matrix.
Alegría’s strict practices promoting RegenOrganic zero waste full circle carbon recycling are proving to be a great asset on our farm, providing us powerful natural biostimulants to supercharge our fields and gardens. See www.AlegriaMontana.com and www.AlegriaLivingSoil.com
Let’s keep on growin’!
Turmeric has been used in India for thousands of years as a spice and a powerful medicinal herb. Curry gets its yellow color from turmeric.
Trusted Source
Curcumin is the main active ingredient in turmeric and has numerous healing properties that can increase your resilience to disease. Turmeric’s powerful anti-inflammatory effects are due to it being a strong antioxidant, aiding in preventing inflammatory disease and protecting the heart and brain, and providing many other functions.
Always try to combine eating turmeric with black pepper which contains piperine and enhances the absorption of curcumin by an estimated 2,000%.
Let’s keep in growin’!
At Alegría, we generally don’t toot our own horn, instead we do the work and focus on soil health to grow the finest nutrient-dense produce employing RegenOrganic techniques.
To demonstrate one of our achievements, “optimizing the genetic potential” of plants via advanced soil health, we proudly show you a 14+ pound Chioggia Beet that got so large after six months in our SoxxBoxx Gro system, we had to cut the Soxx material away to liberate it!
This is a testimonial that proves soil health can’t be beet!
Let’s keep on growin’!
Happy Holidays from all of us at Alegría!
We are hunkered down in our Alegría World Kitchen on our 80-acre farm/ranch property in Kalispell, Montana doing what all farmers and chefs aspire to do and that is to transform our homegrown, freshly harvested veggies into a culinary experience that is unrivaled:)
To make our trademark Alegria “root soup”, this morning we harvested from our greenhouse red, gold and striped beets, celery and parsley, red and green onions, and carrots. Added to this diverse blend of fresh roots are homegrown turmeric and ginger root, black pepper, garlic, Alegría memory spice, apple cider vinegar, beet tops, mustard greens and organic bone broth (yes, we made it from our own RegenOrganic bones) and lots of love. We’ll slow cook our soup for four hours to meld all the potent flavors.
We look forward to inviting you all up here in Spring 2023 to share in our “wealth”. Until then, be free, be well, be kind, unite with each other over food and most importantly, be of service to those who do not have as much as we do:)
Farm ‘on!
We are welcoming new family members here at Alegría Montana every day now.
For the last several months, our adult sheep have been grazing off all our weeds, regeneratively fertilizing the soil with their droppings and fattening up to have babies. For the past year, we have been expanding the “farm” to include “ranch”, adding herbivores, building pastures and amending our 77-acres to improve soil health.
We are now experiencing the joy of birthing lambs, which join our 50+ chickens, 9 ducks, 2 beautiful puppies, and 3 handsome turkeys.
Our flock of Navajo Churro sheep is now 23 strong with the arrival of our third lamb. We call these sheep the, “ancient ones” as they are super hardy, make great mothers and defend their young against predators and represent a valuable foundational component in regenerative agriculture.
Next Spring 2023, our team at Alegría Montana will be welcoming our first guests to experience our luxurious farm stay sanctuary, complete with 100% RegenOrganic produce grown onsite, local ReGen meat, cheese and spirits and the finest sourdough breads in the land:)
Lets keep growin’!
