Green Flamingo Organics — Tour Highlight 1
A quick highlight from Liz’s tour of Green Flamingo Organics and its regenerative approach to small-scale food production.
Inside a Small Regenerative Farm Doing Things Differently
Florida
Regenerative Farming
Farm Tours
Organic Farming
No-Till
CSA
Tour Green Flamingo Organics in Oak Hill, Florida, where Liz uses no-till regenerative farming, cover crops, succession planting, companion planting, seed saving, tarping, and community programs.
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Inside a Small Regenerative Farm Doing Things Differently
Florida
Regenerative Farming
Farm Tours
Organic Farming
No-Till
CSA
Tour Green Flamingo Organics in Oak Hill, Florida, where Liz uses regenerative and no-till practices to grow food on a small farm serving a CSA, farmers market, local stores, restaurants, and the surrounding community.
Green Flamingo Organics is a small regenerative farm in Oak Hill, Florida, where Liz and her team grow diversified produce using practices designed to build soil rather than repeatedly disturb it. Across about 2.75 acres, the farm combines succession planting, companion planting, seed saving, cover crops, tarping, compost, hand tools, CSA production, and community programs into a system with lessons for both working farmers and backyard growers.
FarmGreen Flamingo Organics
HostLiz
LocationOak Hill, Florida
Growing Since2009 on This Property
Farm SizeAbout 2.75 Acres
Farm SeasonTypically November–May
Growing StyleRegenerative & No-Till
CommunityCSA, WWOOF & Giving Garden
Inside a Small Regenerative Florida Farm
Green Flamingo Organics has been growing on this Oak Hill property since 2009. The farm sells organic produce through a CSA, farmers market, health food stores, and local restaurants, but the most interesting part of the tour is how that food is produced.
Liz describes the farm as regenerative and no-till. Instead of relying on frequent soil disturbance, the farm uses cover crops, compost, tarps, hand tools, crop diversity, and living roots to build fertility and prepare beds. Even within individual production beds, multiple crops are often grown together.
The farm is also smaller than it may appear. Liz estimates the area they use at about 2.75 acres, and at any given time roughly half of that ground is in cover crop while the other half is used for production.
What You’ll Learn From Green Flamingo Organics
Why succession planting every few weeks can keep favorite crops producing throughout a season
How companion planting and diversified beds can help reduce insect pressure
Why Liz leaves roots and plant material in place to support soil life and beneficial insects
How tarping can prepare beds without tilling while leaving organic material on the soil
How long-term seed saving can help crops adapt to a farm’s climate, soil, and harvest style
Why Green Flamingo keeps roughly half its growing area in diverse cover crops
Five Highlights From the Green Flamingo Organics Tour
Green Flamingo Organics — Tour Highlight 2
A quick highlight from Liz’s tour of Green Flamingo Organics and its regenerative approach to small-scale food production.
Green Flamingo Organics — Tour Highlight 3
A quick highlight from Liz’s tour of Green Flamingo Organics and its regenerative approach to small-scale food production.
Green Flamingo Organics — Tour Highlight 4
A quick highlight from Liz’s tour of Green Flamingo Organics and its regenerative approach to small-scale food production.
Green Flamingo Organics — Tour Highlight 5
A quick highlight from Liz’s tour of Green Flamingo Organics and its regenerative approach to small-scale food production.
Growing More Through Diversity and Succession Planting
One of the clearest ideas in the tour is that production does not have to mean planting large blocks of a single crop. Liz shows beds containing carrots, turnips, kale, flowering kale, lettuce, and other crops together. That diversity is intentional: crops such as turnips can experience heavier insect pressure when planted in large uninterrupted rows, while mixing crops can reduce that pressure.
The same thinking applies over time. Green Flamingo succession-plants crops such as cilantro, radish, turnips, and carrots every three to four weeks instead of planting the entire season’s supply at once. For a home gardener, the same idea can extend harvests instead of having everything mature at once.
The farm also adjusts its crop mix based on years of experience. Liz explains that some mustards once used heavily in salad mix did not hold up as well through washing and bagging, so the farm shifted toward crops with stronger texture and better post-harvest quality.
Building Soil Without Tilling
Green Flamingo prepares production beds with tarps instead of tilling. Liz says that in their Florida climate, roughly three weeks under a tarp is often enough to eliminate most existing growth. When the tarp is removed, the dead plant material remains on the soil surface rather than being mechanically mixed into the ground.
Liz compares the process to lifting a log or rock in nature. The soil underneath stays cooler and moister, decomposition happens more slowly, and life continues beneath the covered surface. For transplants, a bed can often be planted directly after tarping; for tiny direct-seeded crops, surface material can be moved aside.
Leaving roots in the ground follows the same philosophy. Finished crops may remain temporarily as habitat for beneficial insects and as living or decomposing root material rather than being immediately pulled out.
Cover Crops, Seed Saving, and Farming for the Long Term
Green Flamingo devotes a large share of its limited acreage to soil-building. Liz explains that roughly half the farm is in cover crop at any given time. Some areas move through multiple rounds of summer and winter cover crops and rest for well over a year before returning to production.
Those cover-crop mixes are intentionally diverse, often containing nine to twelve species. Grasses such as wheat, barley, rye, and oats are combined with legumes such as peas, clovers, and alfalfa, while turnips and daikon radishes add roots and biomass. A flail mower eventually turns the standing cover crop into a mulch layer on the surface.
Seed saving adds another long-term layer. Liz has saved seed from one flowering kale variety for almost a decade and says it has become well adapted to the farm’s climate, soils, and the way the crop is harvested.
Crops and Growing Systems Featured at Green Flamingo Organics
The tour takes place during the transition from Florida’s cool-season crops into warmer spring production. The beds, greenhouse spaces, and cover-crop areas show crops being harvested alongside plants intentionally left to flower, set seed, support insects, or contribute biomass.
Farm AreaAbout 2.75 acres
Cover Crop RotationAbout half the farm at a time
Cover Crop Mix9–12 species
Herb SuccessionAbout every 3–4 weeks
Bed PreparationTarping instead of tilling
Seed SavingSome seed saved for nearly 10 years
Cool SeasonRoots, greens & herbs
Warm SeasonBeans & other warm-weather crops
Featured Crops
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Production Crops Featured in the Tour
- Purple French eating beans
- Lettuce
- Fennel
- Kale
- Carrots
- Hakurei turnips
- Chinese flowering kale
- Mustards
- Pea shoots
- Arugula
- Cilantro
- Dill
- Parsley
- Microgreens
Winter Cover Crop Species Mentioned
- Wheat
- Barley
- Rye
- Oats
- Peas
- Clovers
- Alfalfa
- Turnips
- Daikon radish
Regenerative Practices Featured
- No-till bed preparation
- Tarping
- Cover cropping
- Companion planting
- Succession planting
- Seed saving
- Leaving roots in the ground
- Compost
- Hand tools
- Flail mowing cover crops
The Green Yard Takeaway
What stands out at Green Flamingo Organics is that regenerative farming is not presented as one special technique. It is a collection of choices: keeping living roots in the ground, rotating production with cover crops, diversifying beds, saving seed, preparing soil without tilling, and continually adjusting what is grown based on what the farm learns.
Those ideas are useful beyond a commercial farm. A backyard grower can succession-plant cilantro, mix crops instead of planting a single block, save seed from plants that perform well, leave roots in the soil, or use a cover crop during an off-season.
Learn More About Green Flamingo Organics
Green Flamingo Organics Website
Learn about the farm, CSA, classes, programs, and current opportunities.
Green Flamingo Organics on Instagram
Follow the farm for growing updates, harvests, programs, and seasonal news.
Watch the Full Tour on YouTube
Watch Liz walk through the farm and explain its regenerative growing practices.
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