About Us

Welcome to the Wonderful World of Moringa! I would like to take this opportunity to introduce our new family. This year I joined with the Gregory family to create a new partnership and a new family. It was an easy and effortless transition as we all share the same vision for our lives, our families, our family of man. We both come to this venture as farmers first. This common ground of being has provided the basis for our work to improve this world in our own way, from the ground up. While this new partnership is in its infancy, each of our families brings many years of experience in farming. With diversity of backgrounds, our union enhances what we each offer and allows us to embrace our future together with wide open arms and open hearts.

We are simultaneously co-creating a new business model. This method of doing business will take that which is working well at improving our world and add a creative process. The foremost criterion is to create the way to work that will not only sustain the world’s beauty and natural rhythm, but restore what has been degraded. The corporate model that has been at work for so many years has proven itself to be in opposition to the health of life on earth. It has taken the heart away from the simple handshake contract.

Our journey takes us to a new way to work and a new way to live. Starting from the health of the soil, that supports all of life, we are working together to discover the essential vision of healing the human heart. I hope you will join us in this endeavor to find ways to co-create an authentic life for life.

With Warm Regards,

Mariko Gifford

Moringa For Life, formerly Mariko’s Family Farm

Philosophy:

At Moringa For Life we focus on high hands, low tech. By that we mean to have our hands in contact with each phase of production from planting seeds and harvest, to packaging the products, to the face to face contact with the consumer. We believe it takes the human hand to heal the human heart. Each process is evaluated with this prospective in mind. We are mindful of having our hands involved rather than looking for mass automation and mass production. Our master inventor, Kevin Gregory, is building simple machines that not only help our work but also generates energy.

We are a cottage industry and plan to remain so. We believe it is mass production that has taken the hands and faces out of our modern products and so has caused a disconnect from our food, our medicine our society. We no longer have the local herbalist we can go to for our health needs who knows our life, our family our history. Our lifestyles bring us farther apart with less time to connect and enjoy simple things like breaking bread together and eating local clean harvest in season. To use a term in filming ‘to pull focus’, draws the camera lens wide to see more of the picture, we want to pull focus on the bioregion we live in. This enables us to see a bigger and wider picture of our resources. This makes bioregions more important than borders.

Fast lives, fast food and the fast deterioration of health, family and society has been the norm. At Moringa For Life we intend to live slow, eat slow and regain our health by high touch within our family, our friends, our community, our bioregion.

Moringa – The Vehicle:

After years of research into the vitamin content of many plants, Moringa was found to have the highest value of vitamins and uses. It is called The Miracle Tree because all the parts are edible and medicinal. It is a source of nutrition for animals and heals wounds. It fixes high levels of nitrogen into the soil and can so be used to fortify soil. It can clarify water. All of our efforts are focused on the widespread use of Moringa as a local food and medicine for humans, animals, soil and water.

Mission Statement:
Grow and promote Moringa as a food and medicine for people, animals, soil and water health.

Purpose:
Moringa, The Miracle Tree, also called the Tree of Life, has the healing potential for the planet. All parts of the tree are edible and medicinal. Our purpose is to promote the use and cultivation of Moringa from the local to global. We will develop products from all parts of the plant and create markets for these items. Because Moringa has been utterly unknown in the West, our parallel purpose is to educate the public at large on its benefits and uses. We empower self-healing.

More information:

For more information on Moringa information, resources, and initiatives please visit Trees for Life International