Welcome to Sycamore Oaks Farm.

We’re Mike and Libby Morrell. This is our first-generation farm on 50 acres in Rock Hill, South Carolina, and we’re building it one season at a time with a lot of care, curiosity, hard work, and many, many mistakes.

Our focus is simple: raise healthy food, take good care of the land, and bring a historic dairy farm that has been neglected for more than 40 years back to life by building productive soil and healthier food.

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How we’re approaching the land

We’re leaning into regenerative practices because we want this land to be healthy and productive for the long haul. For us, that means focusing on soil health, improving ground cover, and building systems that support the land instead of working against it.

A big part of why we’re doing this is personal. Over time, we’ve taken more responsibility for the food we put into our own bodies and into our kids’ bodies, and started paying closer attention to how much of what’s available today is ultra-processed or filled with chemical ingredients.

Along the way, we’ve realized we genuinely love the process. We love the relationship we’re building with our food and our livestock, the care that goes into raising animals well, and the peace of knowing we’re no longer supporting factory farming. We’re inspired by the way our grandparents and great-grandparents ate, and our hope is to raise food we’re proud to feed our own family and, in time, share that same kind of food with our community.

Livestock

The animals are a big part of why we love this life. Each species plays a role on the farm, and just as importantly, they’ve helped us build a deeper relationship with our food and the process behind it.

Farm tours and visits

One of the best parts of this for us has been meeting other farmers, homesteaders, and people who are simply curious about where their food comes from.

If you’d like to visit, walk the farm, talk animals, or just compare notes, you’re welcome here. We don’t run formal tours or keep a set schedule, but we’re always happy to connect and host visitors.

Thanks for stopping by.

If you’ve made it this far, we appreciate you taking the time to learn a little about us and what we’re building at Sycamore Oaks. This place is very much a work in progress, and that’s part of what we love about it.

Whether you’re a fellow farmer, a homesteader, or someone who’s simply curious about where food comes from and how it’s raised, you’re welcome here.