Matt and Jacy Rothschiller focus on "diversity and balance" at their farm near Bozeman

Gallatin Valley Botanical at Rocky Creek Farm is a 57-acre diversified certified organic farm in the fertile Rocky Creek bottomlands … this is where Roots sources apples for its apple butter.

The day we stopped by, the trees were full of ripe, crunchy apples and Matt Rothschiller took us around the orchard. While we were there, families milled around, picking apples and enjoying the fall air (and the insane view — Montana is gorgeous!).

Matt and Jacy Rothschiller began farming in 2003 and for 10 years ran a 7-acre farm that offered specialty vegetables at a local co-op, at farmers’ markets, to local chefs and home cooks as well as through a CSA program. In 2017, they acquired neighboring Rocky Creek Farm and today oversee 57 acres, raising vegetables, cut flowers, sheep, pigs, laying hens, broiler chickens, berries, bees an that apple orchard Patrick relies on for his apple butter. The Rothschillers use regenerative agriculture practices to maintain and enhance soil health on the farm — “incorporating beneficial insects, composted manure, cover cropping, crop rotation, and inter-planting to our cropping systems.”

The community enjoys the fully stocked market stand, u-pick berry patch and apple orchard as well as the cider press that is tucked into the iconic blue barn on the property. People can have cider fresh-pressed from apples they picked from the farm’s orchard or brought in on their own.

Gallatin Valley Botanical at Rocky Creek Farm
250 Chester Lane, Bozeman, MT 59715
406.599.2361