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Tres Estrellas Organic Farm

Farmed with love, beneath the slopes of Mt. Kuchumaa

TRES ESTRELLAS
ORGANIC FARM AND GARDEN

Tres Estrellas Organic Farm and Garden is a 40-year-old, 6-acre organic production and educational farm located in Tecate, Baja California, Mexico. The farm was founded and nurtured by Sarah Livia Brightwood, President of Rancho la Puerta to grow the highest quality food for Rancho La Puerta’s kitchens. The permaculture influenced farm elegantly incorporates organic, biointensive fruit and vegetable production, agroforestry, agrobiodiversity conservation and animal husbandry to create an idyllic example of ecological agriculture. The Mediterranean climate of Tecate, with light winter frosts, allows year-round production of a great diversity of plants at Tres Estrellas. In addition to growing nutrient dense, organic produce, Tres Estrellas protects the immediate and surrounding natural resources by building carbon rich soil, protecting and recycling water and preventing topsoil erosion.

Tres Estrellas Organic Farm and Garden produces organic mixed fruits and vegetables, culinary and medicinal herbs, eggs, goat milk and cut flowers for the guests of Rancho La Puerta, La Cocina Que Canta, Rancho La Puerta's Culinary Center and Cooking School, and El Cafecito, a café open to the general public.

Fruits and vegetables are intensively planted in permanent raised beds that are strategically placed amongst perennial fruit and herb hedgerows. Egg laying chickens are located throughout the farm, providing organic eggs for the commercial kitchens, as well as helping to improve the health of the farm’s soil. The farm’s free-range Nigerian Dwarf goats provide the property with fire control through grazing, soil enhancement through manure production and fresh milk for consumption and cheese making.