“Soil, animals, and people. If one is not healthy, nothing works.”
-Ahmet
Ahmet's Farm at a Glance:
Walk Ahmet’s farm long enough, and you start to notice something unusual. Everything feels alive. Not just the trees—but the people.
That memory fuels his vision for what comes next.
“This has to be our legacy—to our sons, to our grandsons.”
And when someone opens a bottle made from fruit grown here?
“You will get the scent. You will get the taste of our farm.”
Regenerative Farming Is Not Just About The Land
“I want all the people who are working with me to be happy. If they are not happy, we won’t get this outcome.”
Even the smallest details matter. Bees are protected. Wildlife is respected. Water is treated as sacred. Ahmet still remembers playing barefoot in irrigation canals as a child, surrounded by the smell of mandarins.
So Ahmet made a decision that many around him questioned—just as they once questioned his grandfather.
Instead of pushing the land harder, Ahmet listened to it. He began removing chemicals and restoring balance—animals, insects, soil, and people— to return the farm to its original state.
“We went back to the old ways. And with this balance, everybody wins. When we look at the trees, we see that they are smiling to us.”
A New Generation of Farming
When Ahmet took over the farm from his family after several years studying and working abroad, he moved away from his grandfather’s original farming practices and went through a period of implementing what he called “modern agriculture.” It didn’t take long to realize something was wrong.
“We were using pesticides. We were using fertilizers. And what we saw was they were suffocating the soil.”
“They called him the Doctor of Soil.”
Ahmet’s farm began with his grandfather, a practicing doctor who, in 1965, started a farm on a stretch of rocky land near Selçuk that most people dismissed as unusable. When what went from a barren piece of land turned into a thriving farm the locals were amazed.
“After that, the area became a mandarin area. He was the pioneer. They called him the Doctor of Soil.”
Today, Ahmet and his family are the third generation caring for those same trees—some still producing fruit nearly 60 years later.
“These are the trees that my grandfather planted back in 1965. And now these fruits are in your Wild Oats juice.”
Regenerative farming rooted in legacy
