Land Stewardship

To Protect Our Future

Gateway Farm is an ambitious, cutting-edge farm project and business located in Plymouth, Michigan.

It is putting into practice a regenerative, permaculture-inspired design that weaves together USDA certified organic market gardening, food forests, land regeneration and re-wilding, and is a demonstration site for these approaches. Gateway Farm is a place of abundance and beauty; a community hub offering nutrient dense food, education, events, sanctuary, and hope for the future.

Acres dedicated to annual organic vegetable production

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Acres dedicated to permaculture-inspired land design

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Acres dedicated to buildings, pathways, and infrastructure

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Our
Growing
Practices

A Place Of Beauty And Sanctuary

Places can be healthy or they can be unhealthy – this is both literally and psychologically. They can also be in the process of healing. A sanctuary offers a place to find respite, a retreat, a place of convalescence in a difficult world. Gateway Farm Hub has been turned into a place of sanctuary, offering respite to those seeking peace from the separation caused by time indoors and on the internet. Read more here.

Promoting
Species Diversity

There are over 325+ plant species and varieties on our farm.


75+

of those are annual species and varieties.

250+

of those are perennial species and varieties.

Designed to
Support Pollinators

28% of our total outdoor growing space is dedicated to pollinator plants.


69%

of our plants are in rows.

20%

of those rows are dedicated to pollinator plants.

31%

of our plants are perennials

We acknowledge the Ojibwe, Potawatomi and Anishinaabe Nations whose lands we are most often living and working on and whose cultures inspire and influence us.

We pay respects to Elders and Teachers past, present and future, and to all First Nations Peoples around the world.

We respectfully ask to be guided by the Spirits of the places in which we walk, work and live.

Where We Started
& Where We Are Now

Before 2014

Our 4 acre property was a driving range.

2017

We began rebuilding and regenerating the land by adding ponds, waterways, berms, swales and soil nutrients.

2020

We continued re-imagining the landscape and added in our food forest, began offering perennial foods and value-added products.

Today

We’re opening our literal and metaphorical gateways to the public: we now offer workshops, event rentals, on-site markets and more.


Gateway Farm was established in 2016 by Mary Emmett and her family, owners of Plymouth Orchards. Their intention was to create a farm hub offering organic nutrient dense food to the Plymouth Community, while at the same time, transition the orchard to organic production.

Since then, the Gateway Farm vision has broadened to become a community hub offering educational workshops, events, sanctuary, and hope for the future. The Gateway team continues to transform what was once an old golf driving range into a beautiful place of biodiversity, healing and abundance. 

The farm employs 15-20 people during the busy season; a dedicated management team to keep us focused on our business strategy and vision, alongside 9-10 hard-working annual and perennial crew members building, maintaining, and harvesting from the vegetable fields and perennial food berms. 

The farm has diversified a great deal in the last five years, going from offering solely organically grown annual vegetables, to showcasing diversified food systems by offering perennial foods, dried herbal teas, and other value added products. We’ve re-imagined our farm-scape using a permaculture-inspired vision that weaves together market gardening, food forests, land regeneration and re-wilding. Our community based educational workshops, farm tours and seasonal on-site markets have helped to make us a community hub that not only nourishes the land and our body, but the mind and spirit as well. 

Moving foward, we’re focused on building community, expanding our offerings, and educating through collaboration.