Everoak Farm is a small family business in Central Florida founded by Mike Garcia. Located at 2335 Carrington Drive in Orlando, Everoak Farm aims to provide clean, nutritious, and locally grown food through sustainable and regenerative farming practices. They utilize bio-intensive gardening techniques, regenerative farming practices and organic inputs to build healthy biologically active soil, providing the community with clean and nutritionally dense food. They also keep bees and raise chickens, prioritizing sustainability in all of their business endeavors. Everoak Farm serves the Orlando community through their farmstand, restaurant partnerships, and their Community Supported Agriculture Program. CSA members receive a rotating box of 6-7 seasonal produce items each week from October to June. Additionally, their educational farm dinners in the winter highlight their commitment to the environment, showing that sustainability is truly at the heart of Everoak Farm. See below for a profile on their business and the meaning of sustainability in our Central Florida community!
What made you inspired to create Everoak Farm here in Central Florida and what keeps you going? We love Central Florida! My wife and I are both originally from South Florida. When we moved up here in 2007, it was a big change and we found our rhythm here. The Orlando community is amazing and we’re so grateful to have found it. I’d say what keeps us going is a mix of community and just knowing that this is the right path. Growing food and feeding people is what we’re passionate about. We need more farms in the Central Florida area!
What do you love most about your small business in House District 42/Central Florida? That we can serve our community through: CSA, markets & restaurants. All the while making a positive environmental impact with how we grow fruits & vegetables and raise chickens.
What does sustainability mean to you? Here at the farm we’re striving to go beyond sustainability. We’re not just trying to sustain but pushing the envelope well beyond that.
What are some of your customer’s favorite services/programs from your business? Our CSA (community supported agriculture), which is literally fueled by the community! In short, a CSA is a weekly bag of rotating produce directly from the field to the consumer. This starts up in October and runs through the beginning of June!
What are your personal tips for those who are looking to transition to zero-waste practices? Baby steps. You can’t do it overnight. Changing your outlook and perspective and what is the easiest to do, NOW.
What are your future goals for expanding your zero-waste initiatives? We are looking to try and get more eco-friendly packaging for our produce. It’s not easy or cheap but if the intention is there, that’s already a big step in the right direction!
Lastly, how can readers stay up to date with your business and show support in 2024? Subscribing to our email list, joining our CSA, eating at local restaurants we supply, shopping with us at our farm stand, which opens back up in October, & finding us through the season at Audubon Community Market! Check us also on Instagram for updates too!