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We are pleased to announce the marriage of our farm to another. Tim and Caroline, do you take Jarrett Man of Stone Soup Farm to be your lawfully wedded co-farmer? We do!
You heard right. We are teaming up with Jarrett, merging our farms into a single new farm that will be called The Kitchen Garden, LLC. Jarrett has been operating his CSA farm at the New England Small Farm Institute in Belchertown since 2008. A fellow Hampshire alum, Jarrett has also worked at Red Fire Farm and is an all around great guy and amazing farmer.
We are combining our talents and our resources so that we can do more as one medium sized farm than we ever could as two small farms. Kitchen Garden 2.0 is going to be amazing!
At the end of last season, we knew that whatever we would be doing in 2012 would be radically different than ever before. We didn’t know what the New Year would bring, but we knew we had to ditch the status quo. We have surprised even ourselves with the bigness of our new plans.
We have secured a lease for 14 additional acres of gorgeous Sunderland farmland just across the brook at the back of our field, bringing our total acreage to over 20. This new land will allow us to grow our vegetables more efficiently as well as more sustainably. We’ll be growing a lot more of the things we love and still have plenty of space to try new things. In addition, The Kitchen Garden will become a truly 4-season farm with year-round product and CSA share offerings.
This new chapter for the farm isn’t born solely out of a desire to make everything Bigger, Better, Faster, Stronger. As farm owners, we see this as an opportunity to refine our job descriptions to reflect our best strengths and interests. The breadth of what is normally expected of a “farmer” can be overwhelming. By working together, we’ll be able to do the jobs that we’re most skilled at, and do them in a more focused and effective way.
So, here’s a preview of what’s new and different for 2012 and beyond:
Changes to our CSA program including on-farm pickup in Hadley complete with pick-your-own, drop sites in Boston, and a new farmers market option called Market Share!
More veggies, more food: we are working to develop some prepared food items for sale at our farmers markets, and looking forward to hosting a series of Kitchen Table food events!
We're adding 250 hens to Jarrett's pastured laying flock, so we'll have eggs for sale!
Later in the season we’ll be offering Winter CSA Shares and a full line of winter greens and stored root crops for our market customers, chefs and stores!
So, from Tim, Caroline and Jarrett, we are excited to be growing for you in 2012!
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