6 Core Values
Our mission is influenced by these six core values. While techniques and tactics may change over time, our core values will not.
Our values guide us in our daily decisions and help us navigate toward our long-term goals. We view nature as an extension of the work of Christ, from which we are to learn from, co-work with, and restore life to, as we are able.
Honor Christ
By Him all things exist
Most importantly, Mirror Image Farm’s intentions are to honor Jesus with all of its resources, and in like manner, influence its surroundings.
Mirror Image Farms, (MIF), serves as a revelation and a testimony to the characteristics of it’s Creator and His Kingdom. This testimony is founded in both the methods and principles on which we base the majority of our work.*
We are committed to exposing lies by pursuing Truth. By doing so, we will see the effects they have on both natural and spiritual realms.
Our passion is Christ; and our dream is the avenue through which we express.
Honor Family
A favor from God
The family environment is a framework designed by God.
Mirror Image Farms strives to support what is practical and constructive toward family health, both physically and spiritually.
Family – a profound visual aid/mirror image of our Father’s heart.
Living as Community
Valuing Others over Ourselves
Without community a farm doesn’t have much reason to exist.
At MIF’s we establish relationships with neighbors, both near and far, as means for culturing community and promoting the over-all farm objective.
All ages, classes, nationalities, and those with various forms of interest within a community are of particular interest to the MIF, of which children and the elderly have very important roles.
Children…..for the fact that therein is the future and their curiosity is a gift to us all. And the elderly, for the experience and wisdom their lives impart.
The presence of the future is built on today’s education.
Balanced Nutrition
Quality over Quantity – Eating with the seasons
Without diversity, it’s impossible to generate balanced nutrition. For this reason, and others, MIF’s accommodates as many diverse forms of life as are native to its micro-environment while benefiting its over-all ecosystem.
Imbalance in any setting always passes on to the consumer, including stress, appearance, fertility, level of maintenance required, and so on.
Influence is always a chain reaction of, ‘cascading, compounding effects’, whether good or bad.
Sustainable Regeneration
Do Natural processes sustain it?
Besides the free gift of sunlight and water coming down from above, sustainable regeneration at MIF’s defines itself as being as far removed as possible from all input dependent practices and systems that would give cause for disaster should those outside sources vanish.
Sustainable regeneration: recognizing the absolute necessity for LIGHT, assuming the best position for which to receive LIGHT, utilizing all aspects of LIGHT and giving/marketing LIGHT in as many useful forms as that particular environment sustains while simultaneously accruing in value, (it’s life factor).
Present and future sustainable regeneration of the MIF is primarily based on its ability to harness LIGHT and correctly managing its water supply.
Multiplication: Defining Profit
Fruitfully multiplying
Lastly is our goal for profit, while simultaneously affording fair prices for all of our customers; creating and maintaining a mutually beneficial relationship. Our goal is to market directly to the consumer.
Mirror Image Farms is determined to harness available solar energy, (primarily in the form of foods, fiber & fuels), for its community, while producing profits sufficient to or greater than its operating costs and the potential for ownership of land.
If profit is priority One, there will be a negative return. Address quality and profit will follow.
~Tyler Neff, Vision Bearer for Mirror Image Farms