Six acres. Not yet a model landscape. That is the point.
Physic(s) Farm begins with a poorly managed six-acre field and a commitment to observe before claiming success. The project will ask what is already here, what changes under different management and what evidence would justify the next intervention.
The baseline matters. Future photographs, species observations, soil measures, water conditions and management decisions can be compared back to what was actually present at the start.
Care, plants, restoration
Explore relationships among plants, place, wellbeing and stewardship without making claims that the evidence cannot support.
Measure what changes
Light, water, soil, temperature, energy and environmental sensing make change measurable rather than merely picturesque.
Noticing before intervention
Care enough to notice. Measure enough to know. Change carefully enough to learn.
Noticing is not the opposite of measurement.
Noticing gives us a reason to ask. Measurement helps us decide whether the change we think we see is actually there. Physic(s) Farm treats both as learned practices.