Vista Farm
Beyond Organic
We have restored part of our back pasture, grazed by cattle over the past 50 years, to farmland once again. If you look at satellite imagery of Vista, you can still see the berms and swales from the original farmers, which we have kept in place to aid in our sustainable farming practices.
We call our farm “beyond organic” meaning we never use pesticides and we focus on growing with integrity: low till, water conscious and focused on soil health. We invite you to take one of our Farm Series classes with our resident expert, Agriculture Specialist Noël Lopreore (link to profile). Better yet, we run a volunteer program to really get your hands in the dirt and learn from Noël.
If you’re more into tasting the results of all that hard work, be sure to try our seasonal salad, which rotates with the freshest harvest available. What could taste better than herbs and tomatoes grown 300 yard away and picked the same morning?!
Find Vista Produce
What we aren’t using in our menus, we make available for the community. Find Vista produce seasonally in our Beer To-Go fridge and take home freshly harvested, beyond organic produce along with your beer.
When we have excess harvest, we also join the Dripping Spring Farmers Market to sell unique varieties of produce, provisions such as pickles & jams, Vista honey and of course beer!
Vista Apiary
We’re committed to doing our part to save the honeybee population. We placed our apiary near the Vista Farm to aid in pollination and provide a water source. We’ve also planted over seven acres of native wildflowers and grasses to support their forage.
Our colonies are never treated with chemical medications and our honey is never heated and only minimally filtered. Our bees draw 100% of their own honeycomb, letting them create the purest local honey possible.
Each year in the summer, we celebrate the honey harvest with the release of Hive Mind Honey Ale, a community collaboration of local beekeepers. This award-winning beer was brewed using wild yeast swabbed from a Vista honeybee and isolated by our friends at Community Cultures Yeast Lab.
Vista sells our 100% raw, treatment-free honey in the Tasting Room and our online shop.