Small Family CSA

Peas

Brass-i-ca

 

fields…

 

forever

From Left to Right-Adam, Jillian, Momma Jane

About the Farm

 Our farm is located in Southwest Wisconsin in the Driftless Coulee Region.  We are stewards of 21 beautiful ridge top acres of land.  Our mission as care takes of a small piece of land is to preserve biodiversity, restore soil health, and strive towards implementing a sustainable farm ecosystem and economics.  As the number of small family farms in this nation are rapidly disappearing, we aim to nourish an endangered species, young farmers. 

 

We love to grow healthy food and watch as the soil in which it’s grown in comes back to life after generations of depletion.  We take a special interest in soil health and the elemental composition of the soil.  Through soil testing and analysis we are slowly feeding back to our fields what has been taken from it for so many years before us, essential minerals for healthy plant growth and organic matter.  We believe that once the soil reaches a mineral balance it can be maintained with yearly inputs and cover cropping.  We also believe that when the soil is alive with healthy micro-organisms, earthworms, oxygen and high carbon levels, the weed, insect and plant disease pressure will be significantly lower.  When farmers farm with as much of a sincere interest in giving back to the soil as they have an interest in taking from it, the world will be a much healthier and harmonious place to live. 

 

We primarily grow over 70 varieties of vegetables using organic and biodynamic methods.  We are young people with passion for working outside and with plants and animals.  We raise pastured chickens and pigs for meat.  Some friends graze grass-fed beef cows on our pasture land.  We believe that having animals on the farm mimics a more sustainable ecosystem.  The animals provide fertility for the soil, help keep the insect populations under control, and food for the community.  In the very near future to come we will be planting acres of asparagus, raspberries, strawberries and gradually advance to perennial fruit-bearing trees.  We are still on our first year of our new farm and are putting in new plants and trees as time and money allows. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Adam planting garlic

We primarily market our vegetables thru the CSA program where the members receive a weekly box of veggies from our farm.   From the first or second week of June until the middle of October over the peak growing season we provide ‘shareholders’ with as much of a bounty as we can stuff in their boxes.  Jillian also does the Viroqua Farmer’s Market on Saturday mornings to market some of the garden’s overflow produce.  We have fresh pasture-raised chicken for sale from the summer until late fall and our pastured pork for sale by the half and quarter in the Fall.  Orders for the pork must be placed by mid summer to ensure a share.  We only raise up to three hogs at a time. 

The three primary folks at our farm that really make it happen are Momma Jane, Adam, and Jillian.  We bought the farm to get back to the simple life and quickly discovered, it isn’t all that simple.  There’s a lot of work that needs to be done to make this small, intensely farmed place go ‘round.  And although it’s the three of us on the home front, without our CSA members and invested community support, we simply would not be where we are today.  We are thankful to live in such a beautiful part of the world and to have the strong community support that we do have.  We aim to shorten the gap on consumer awareness of where their food comes from to where it’s purchased.  We await the day when majority of folks can, in good conscious, consume a meal and say they know the farmers who raised it.  Farmer’s and communities alike will be closer to achieving economic stability and independence.