Silk Grass Farms
Our Operations
The Silk Grass family of farms grows a diverse collection of perennial and annual crops—coconuts, citrus fruits, cacao, watermelons, avocado, and more, across 9,000 acres in the foothills of the Maya Mountains.
We are committed to farming practices that restore our relationship with nature, regenerate the soil, heal the land, and reverse climate change. We are harnessing the power of our agriculture to sequester carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, simultaneously building climate resilience and ecological health. Using an innovative and sustainable food production model, we are working to remedy some of our most pressing climate and biodiversity issues.
Silk Grass Farms has joined the global movement to change the way our modern food systems treat food — from farm to table. Our model works to revive food from a faceless commodity with no distinguishing traits, to a colorful, living story of nutrition, nature, and people.
Our Land Ethic
Silk Grass Farms was founded on the belief that conservation and business are allies, bonded interdependently to shared outcomes. Our land ethic reflects this belief, prioritizing land stewardship that protects, regenerates, and heals our soil while simultaneously increasing productivity. Our key guiding principles are:
Let Nature Lead: We are following nature's lead when it comes to planning, nurturing, and safeguarding our ecosystems. We let the land's natural variations and microclimates tell us what to plant, how to manage water, and how to develop infrastructure in a way that works with — and not against — nature.
Resource Productivity + Management: We operate on the principle of "doing more with less" in all aspects of our business to ensure the protection of our precious resources. This means maximizing the utility of our land and resources to extract only what is necessary. When possible, we intercrop and plant ground cover to retain moisture, organic matter, and fertility in our soils. Radically increasing resource productivity stops resource depletion at one end of the value chain and reduces waste at the other.
Build Biodiversity: Protecting biodiversity and supporting strong, thriving ecosystems not only mitigates risks but also increases productivity. We plant a variety of crops to diversify our production and complement various land contours and soil types.
Mitigate Climate Change: The practices we use to grow crops can either pump carbon into the sky or put it back in the ground, where it belongs. It largely comes down to how we treat our soil: a healthy world is dependent on healthy soil. At Silk Grass Farms, we use cultivation methods designed to build soil health.
Waste Nothing: By repurposing post-production biomass, we eliminate the very idea of waste. Those products that do not degrade back into natural nutrient cycles can be repurposed as ingredients for other processes and products.
Our goal is to be carbon neutral by 2030. Learn more about our long-term vision to scale regenerative agriculture in our Environmental Impact Strategy.