Relational Agriculture
Eat the Food
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Organic-fed, Silvopasture-Raised Chicken
Our chickens enjoy a life in lush pastures with daily moves through our tree lanes following our sheep. This regular movement evenly fertilizes the pastures- improving plant growth, soil health, and animal wellbeing.
Our chickens are fed a balanced, 100% organic feed to ensure optimum health in addition to the insects and plants they forage in the pastures.
It is truly the best chicken we have ever eaten- we can’t wait for you to try them, too!
NOTE: Chicken us currently sold out until May 1st.
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No-Till Veggies
We have transformed 1/4 acre of pasture into an annual vegetable garden which is maintained using no-till, organic methods.
We partner with multiple food access organizations to distribute our produce to the community at no cost.
You can find our produce weekly at RAD Farmers Market or order online for delivery through Mother Earth Foods.
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Organic-fed, Forest-Raised Pork
Our pigs play a critical role in remediated the compacted parts of our pastures and kickstarting succession in certain sections of the forests.
In addition to rooting for grubs, nuts, and roots, our pigs are fed 100% organic feed.
Our pork is juicy, tender, fatty, and delicious!
Find our pork weekly at the RAD Farmers Market, or contact us directly for special event availability.
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Perennial Fruits + Nuts
We have planted hundreds of fruit and nut trees and shrubs across the landscape which will bear in the years to come. U-pick opportunities will open as fruits begin to mature.
Beyond providing food for humans, these plants will offer shade to our pasture animals, produce fiber products, create habitat for wildlife, and enhance the beauty of the farm.
Species include:
American Persimmon, Asian Persimmon, Asian Pear, Apple, Mulberry, Paw Paw, Blueberry, Hazelnut, Chinese Chestnut, Pecan, Black Walnut, English Walnut, Shagbark Hickory, Butternut
Know the People
Lyric and Noah founded Wild East Farm in 2023 on their shared values and their love for one another. They have endless fun working and growing alongside each other and enjoy each day tending this shared vision.
Like any good love story, this one was ignited by mosquito-laden mangrove forests and brackish estuaries. Early on in their relationship they took a trip to the Everglades, which illuminated their kindred sense of wonder, play, and adventure and rendered them inseparable.
Before landing at Wild East, Lyric and Noah were intensively homesteading at their beloved home in Shope Creek for six years, including raising meat rabbits, broilers, laying hens, and a large veggie garden. They ran a CSA program from their home garden as well as a roadside produce stand.
All the while, they were patiently planning, preparing, and steadily walking towards their own full-scale farm.
Noah is a farmer, writer, and educator that has gratefully called Western North Carolina home since 2014. At the core of all he does is an interest in relationship, both human-human and human-earth. This is why he farms: so that he can spend as much of his waking life as possible engaged in all forms of deep relationship with his community.
Noah has worked as a field biologist, forestry technician, arborist, land design consultant, and farm manager. He has a permaculture design certification and is a certified ecological monitor through the Savory Institute. His farming philosophy is grounded in a strong understanding of ecological patterns and a passion for effective small farms that revitalize rural communities and economies. With his diverse background and wide knowledge base, Noah's role at Wild East Farm is to facilitate a thriving farm ecosystem and educational space in which the community can become immersed native ecology, soils, animal physiology, and viable farm production systems.
He looks forward to a lifetime living alongside and learning from the agrarian community of this place.
Noah East co-owner
Raised by the lakes, dunes, and forests of northern Michigan, Lyric is a life-long “I want to be outside” person. She farms because it seamlessly melds her ecological curiosity, spiritual relationship with the Earth, and love of storied food into a joyful and meaningful lifestyle.
Lyric is uncompromising in her dedication to integrity food. In living this value, she strives to be directly involved with the source of all her food through relationship, hard honest work, and generosity. She can regularly be found foraging, canning, drying, and exploring new recipes and nuances of preserving seasonal harvests. She seeks to bring creativity, beauty, and enthusiasm to all she does.
Formally, Lyric graduated with distinctions from UNC Asheville with a B.S. in Environmental Design. She has been involved in local food and education systems in WNC for nearly a decade as a grower, children’s educator, non-profit manager, and currently as the director of the River Arts District Farmers Market- where she delights in the weekly ritual of gathering community around food.
She also runs a fine craft business, Wild East Studio, and her products can be found in shops and galleries around WNC.
Lyric East co-owner
After growing up in Durham, Zak has returned to North Carolina following 15 years of living, schooling and farming all across the United States.
Zak found agriculture through his study of social change theory and philosophy at Kenyon College where he graduated with distinction in both Philosophy and Political Science. Working as a community organizer throughout college, Zak had for his foundational teachings the work of influential leaders from Fannie Lou Hamer to Murray Bookchin. These and other teachers expressed common threads in community self reliance through connection and entanglement by means of cultural, economic and food production. After volunteering at the Kenyon Farm, Zak was ready to immerse in an intensive 2 year agricultural apprenticeship orchestrated by the Maine Organic Farmers and Gardeners Association (MOFGA).
Zak has spent the last 7 years farming in all the major bioregions of the country (Maine, Alaska, New Mexico, South Carolina). This experience at different scales in addition to climates informs his role of vegetable manager at Wild East Farm.
Zak is determined to realize visions of sustainable rural communities that center food, art, and relationship. His arrival to Wild East feels kismet and has strengthened the sense of purpose, inspiration, and love here on the farm.
Zak Young vegetable manager
“Relationship is the primary context of existence.”
— Thomas Berry
