Nurturing the land, nourishing you: Red Hawk Hill, a circular-focused organic farm.
Our mission is to cultivate organic food and soil while practicing responsible land stewardship, following historical and intersectional approaches to the production of small scale artisan goods.
The Team at Red Hawk Hill
Red Hawk Hill is a small mission-focused team of environmental stewards; we believe in applying our diverse life experiences and continued commitments to learning in order to responsibly care for the environment and our communities. We will always pay our staff fair wages, work to create an educational and supportive environment, and always continue to learn and have fun!
Red Hawk Hill is Sandhill Habitat
10 million years ago, water covered California’s central valley and emptied into the Pacific Ocean at Monterey Bay. The Santa Cruz Mountains formed as seafloor sand rose, creating a unique ecosystem habitat covering roughly 5,000 acres. Sandhill plants and animals have evolved uniquely with the sandy soils of marine deposits and are found nowhere else in the world.
Sandhill habitat destruction due to sand quarrying, urban development, and agricultural practices has greatly reduced and fragmented the habitat. As a result of habitat loss, a number of locally unique species are listed critically and federally endangered, beginning with the Zayante Band-Winged Grasshopper in 1997 by USFWS. (United States Fish and Wildlife Service).
History of the Property: Before Red Hawk Hill
1993-2003
Full functioning 20+ Tree Orchard & Garden
2003-2017
Our sandhill property changed hands a number of times. The land was mostly non-operational in these years. As the orchard degraded in production, much of the land was overgrown with invasives, particularly Scottish brush - we will be consistently working to eradicate and restore native species.
2017-2020
Logging - Redwoods are protected in California and much of the Pacific Northwest. We have pockets on the property of older growth, but the majority of redwoods onsite are younger, 20-80 years. Timber harvesting requires permits, can only occur legally every 10 years or more, and the harvest area must have an average 600 trees per acre. We are aware of the potential for historical logging activities that may not have followed these guidelines. Our focus is now on responsible stewardship, ensuring the continued conservation and restoration of our redwood ecosystem.
2021-Present
Red Hawk Hill has taken on the property with the mission to: cultivate organic food and soil, practice land stewardship, and follow an environmentally intersectional production of small scale artisan goods. As part of our commitment to ecological restoration, we draw inspiration from organizations like the California Native Plant Society and Grassroots Ecology.
We believe that nature has so much to offer, and are proud to be stewards of the land. By supporting our small business, you are supporting sustainable, organic, and eco-friendly practices! Thank you, we appreciate you.