A regenerative, organic family farm growing food and building growing capacity among the local Indigenous Navajo people of Northern Arizona.
OUR MISSION
The Ch’ishie Farms mission is to model and provide the education and tools needed for members of the community to grow the healthy produce needed to feed people.
UPCOMING EVENTS
OUR VISION
To be self-sustaining, healthy, resilient, and empowered native communities by continued regenerative agriculture practice. Our local farms, schools, chapter houses, and senior centers will all be growing food.
OUR SERVICES
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Tractor Services
Grading roads • Farm work: Discing and plowing
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Hoop House Building
Widths: 12', 16', and 20' • Lengths: 12'-100'
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Workshop / Capacity Building
Drip lines • Raised beds • Soil building • Seedling starts
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BCS Services
Mowing • Bed prepping
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Dump Trailer
Compost hauling • Gravel hauling
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Interested in our services?
Email us at farmertye4@hotmail.com or call (928) 206-3132.
Tyrone Thompson is passionate about improving the quality of life for Navajo people by modeling a self-sustaining way of living.
He is the founder and farm manager of Ch’ishie Farms, farming along the Little Colorado River in the southwest portion of Navajo Nation. Tyrone has farmed alongside lead farmers and gardeners for over fifteen years practicing and specializing in organic regenerative agriculture, which includes organizing community composting, farm to school, CSA seedling program, as well as community farms, gardens and orchards.
Tyrone is inspired by his wife, three boys, and three girls. In their spare time they enjoy camping, fishing, hiking, and biking.
IN THE MEDIA
Tribal Food Sovereignty Newsletter: Chi'shie Farms: A Story of Healing, Sovereignty & Sustainability (May 2022 Featured Organization)
Native American Food Sovereignty Alliance: Building Living Soil with Tyrone Thompson // Tyrone Thompson gives a presentation about the process of building living soil with lasagna gardening techniques, as well as the practices of greenhouse planting and season extension he utilizes in the high desert.
NPR: Navajo Nation Sees Farming Renaissance During Coronavirus Pandemic
NBC News: Navajo rebuild traditional foodways as inflation, supply chain woes hit hard
The Counter: Funders want to help ensure Native food sovereignty. Many in those communities want philanthropy to do better.
Navajo Times: Sustenance and sustainability: Grassroots effort puts CARES Act funds to work in Western Navajo
Grand Canyon Trust: Chi'shie Farms Growing Navajo Food System during Covid-19
Arizona Daily Sun: The Power of ‘Ch’ishie’: Farmer Tyrone Thompson Wants the Rez to Feed Itself
Growing Spaces: Water is Life: Bringing farming back to Navajo Nation
CONTACT US
For general inquiries, please use this contact form.
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Contact Tyrone Thompson at (928) 206- 3132 or email farmertye4@hotmail.com.
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Contact Tyrone Thompson at (928) 206- 3132 or email farmertye4@hotmail.com.
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If you’re interested in our services, email us at farmertye4@hotmail.com or call (928) 206-3132.
THE THOMPSON FAMILY OF CH’ISHIE FARMS
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