After apprenticing for a year with a family practicing organic and biodynamic agriculture on a 20-year old fruit and vegetable farm in El Hoyo, a small village in Patagonian Argentina, Jason Angell and Jocelyn Apicello moved back to family land to join the growing movement of young (meaning new) farmers who want to find a satisfying way to live, re-establish a simple connection to our earth and reclaim our future's health and contentment.

Longhaul Farm, launched in January 2011, is a farm and think/act/learn space located in Garrison, NY in the lower Hudson Valley. Longhaul Farm practices organic, sustainable agriculture while striving to make farming, gardening and issues of food and social justice accessible, relevant, and present in the lives of as many different groups of people as possible.

Our farm is built around principles of ecological balance: committing to zero waste; using compost, animal and plant manures to feed the soil instead of chemicals; growing diverse crops, herbs and flowers to naturally keep away pests and disease; raising livestock as contributors to our ecological system; working at a small enough scale that most everything is done by human hands; honoring the earth as a living organism that shares interconnections between the plants, animals, people and all other living and non-living things; and finding joy in the simple pleasure of being able to walk into your backyard to harvest dinner.

Longhaul Farm includes over 100 double-dug vegetable, herb and flower beds; a 30+ tree fruit and nut orchard; green manure pastures; a chicken + turkey run; a pig pen; a rain water harvest system; and an entire community of supporters.

Longhaul Farm is Jason and Jocelyn's first step at re-purposing life.