To be soil life encouragement artists each moment we inhabit the property. To imagine creative solutions that lower input costs, enhance the sustainability of the operation, and generate production models that can be adopted by other producers. To be contributing members of the community of life (humans and otherwise). To be open to productive collaborations that enhance the sustainability of agricultural lands within and adjacent to the Missoula Grain and Vegetable Co. and to make strategic decisions that allow for frequent, trusted, and timely contributions to the regional food system.

Profit from livestock and crops and anything that doesn’t interfere with our values and that complements what we do and who we are.
To manage a diverse array of farm-income sources that provides new challenges and opportunities, and encourage members of the farm to work together in order to be financially successful.
Renewable forms of energy such as bio-diesel and microhydro that allow our farming partners to enhance their ability to feed people who have connected with our farms.

A space that has access to and utilizes water through irrigation, but continually builds organic matter and allows water inputs to decrease over the years as the water holding capacity of soils increase.
Different species and varieties of plants in the form of shelter belts that could have harvestable products within; a great variety of animal life with considerable emphasis on birds [and bats]; great complexity in soil organisms; including fungi and molds.
A brittle environment that can be disturbed in ways that meet the testing guidelines, spurs vast populations of microorganisms, and increases the sort of nutrient cycling that promotes early season growth in our short season.