We believe healthy eating is a right, not a privilege, and that everyone deserves the knowledge, connection, and opportunity to live more sustainably. At Scratch-Farm, our mission is to reconnect people with their food and the land that nourishes them. We create intentional food experiences and reawaken backyard ecosystems that bring seed-to-supper living within reach, through food, farming, and education.
Our Mission
How My Roots Grew from the Land…
As an adult, I lived mostly in apartments with little space to grow. I wanted to understand where my food came from and use that space more intentionally, but learning to grow often felt like it required a degree—or an invitation to a club I wasn’t part of.
While volunteering at a local food bank during COVID, I saw high demand whenever fresh produce arrived from local farms. Families yearned for nourishing food, and many simply couldn’t afford it. I realized fresh, healthy food should be a right, not a privilege.
My connection to food began as a child, spending summers with my Aunt Lib learning to cook from the harvest. So I learned wherever I could—experimenting with window boxes, container gardens, and vertical growing systems; studying regenerative practices; helping build community gardens; and learning from farmers.
Food became both my profession and my passion. I spent more than 30 years cooking in restaurants and catering, while farming became how I volunteered and continued learning.
And suddenly, two worlds I had spent decades exploring weren’t separate at all.
Scratch-Farm became my answer, bridging the gap between wanting to grow food with knowing how, and wanting to eat healthier with understanding where that food begins. Because sometimes what we need most is simply a guide who knows how the pieces fit together—so you don’t have to.
That’s what Scratch-Farm is here to be.
Adriana Karagozian - Master Cook and Master Farmer
At Scratch-Farm, our philosophy is built around seed-to-supper living—a deeper understanding of how our food, our land, and our everyday choices are connected. We believe caring for the Earth begins close to home: in the seeds we cultivate, the soil we amend, and the food we grow and eat. Our work is rooted in practices that restore the land, share practical knowledge, and reconnect people with a way of living that feels both possible and personal.
What We Stand For…
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Living sustainably means meeting our needs today in ways that protect the resources future generations will depend on. It asks us to consider how we grow food, use water, build soil, reduce waste, and care for the natural systems that sustain us without depleting them. At its heart, sustainability is a relationship of reciprocity: taking what we need with intention, returning nourishment to the land, and making choices that allow people, communities, and ecosystems to continue to thrive for generations.
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Being a steward of the land means caring for the space you have been given while considering what it needs to remain healthy for the future. Instead of simply asking what the land can provide for us, stewardship also asks what we can give back. That means caring for the soil, protecting pollinators and wildlife, choosing plants that support the surrounding ecosystem, conserving resources, and paying attention to how our choices affect the life around us. Stewardship is an ongoing relationship between you and the land you care for.
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Regenerative farming is a way of growing food that improves the health of the land while it produces. Its foundational principles include minimizing soil disturbance through no-till practices, protecting the soil with cover crops, keeping living roots in the ground whenever possible, rotating crops, and avoiding chemical pesticides and fertilizers. Together, these practices protect soil structure, feed the life beneath the surface, reduce erosion, support biodiversity, and rebuild fertility naturally.
These principles are the foundation of Scratch-Farm’s maintenance membership packages and how we care for the gardens and farmsteads entrusted to us.
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Urban land-efficient farming asks a simple question: How much life can this space support? Instead of limiting food production to traditional rows or large plots, we look at the entire property as an opportunity to grow. Plants can climb trellises, fences, and walls; containers can occupy patios and overlooked corners; vines can grow overhead; and food-producing plants can be integrated among flowers, shrubs, and other landscaping. By growing outward, upward, around, and sometimes above us, even relatively small spaces can produce an incredible amount of food while creating habitat and supporting a more diverse ecosystem.
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At Scratch-Farm, these ideas are not separate practices—they work together to form the principles behind everything we do. Through them, we recognize what the land can provide, care for it in return, restore the soil that sustains life, and use the space we have with greater intention and purpose.
That relationship continues into the food we prepare, the knowledge we share, and the communities we support. Seed-to-supper living is the thread connecting it all: understanding where our food begins, caring for what allows it to grow, and bringing it full circle to nourish ourselves and the people around us.
That is the connection Scratch-Farm creates—bringing seed-to-supper living within reach.
Our COMMUNITY
At Scratch-Farm, community means creating systems that allow us to care for one another, share what we have, and build something stronger together.
Each growing season, Scratch-Farm donates excess produce to the local food bank. We also offer our farm clients a complimentary pickup and delivery service, making it simple to donate the abundance from their own gardens. Food that might otherwise go unused becomes fresh, nourishing produce for another family in our community.
We also don’t believe in competitors—we believe in collaborators. Scratch-Farm partners with local farmers, growers, craftspeople, and businesses whose knowledge and values strengthen what we are able to offer. Those relationships allow us to create something larger than any one business could build alone.
That belief extends to the next generation. In partnership with the Thompson River School District and Larimer County, we are developing an accredited apprenticeship program for high school students, with plans to welcome our first participants in Summer 2027. The program will create opportunities for young people to gain practical experience in food, farming, sustainability, and stewardship while building skills they can carry into their own futures.
Because we believe it takes a village to build a community—and everyone has something meaningful to contribute.
