Edible Cape Cod

Matt’s Organic Gardens Sharing the Passion

• Photo by Michelle Koch

  Matt Ernst, following in his grandfather Jack Stacy’s footsteps, is growing organic vegetables and herbs at Matt’s Organic Farm in Dennis Port.

• Photo by Michelle Koch

  some of the thirteen lettuce varieties on offer.

• Photo by Michelle Koch

  leek seedlings getting a head start under grow lights

• Photo by Michelle Koch

  Ernst checking on the aphids in pots of barley.

• Photo by Michelle Koch

  Ernst is assisted in his work by his wife Jan and oldest daughter

• Photo by Michelle Koch

  Tom Menard, painstakingly planting onion seeds using a pair of needle-nosed tweezers and an improvised wooden grid to ensure even spacing