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We are happy to share what we have on our
plates when it comes to meal time!

Eating local and supporting local business is very important to us, and we want to promote this consciousness. The following farms and businesses are people from whom we buy products from and stand by their growing practices. 

Hooray for local food!!  May it be delicious, abundant and always on your plate.  
Bon appetite!

Along with food from our farm, we often find these items on our breakfast, lunch and dinner plates:

Astarte Farm

great veggies, popcorn, & signage

Atlas Farm
great veggies & selection

Brookfield Farm

longtime CSA, summer & winter shares

Hungry Ghost Bakery

great bread

Justamere Tree Farm

maple syrup

Leyden Glen Farm
lamb

Prospect Hill Farm
foraged wild mushrooms, find Larry at the Amherst Farmers' Market

Real Pickles
lacto-fermented veggies with an admirable business commitment to local food systems; they use our ginger and garlic too!!

Running Fox Farm
pick-your-own organic blueberries

Sidehill Farm

raw milk (from the farm), yogurt, butter & paneer

More of our friends with great produce/products and growing/business practices:

El Jardin Bakery
sourdough breads

Kitchen Garden Farm

specialty vegetables

Riverland Farm
CSA- and there are still summer shares available!




Organizations that we are a part of and/or encourage involvement in:
Association of Specialty Cut Flower Growers
Baystate Organic Certifiers
Certified Naturally Grown
Chef's Collaborative
CISA
Cornacopia Institute
Federation of Mass. Farmers' Markets
NOFA Massachusetts
NOFA Vermont


Earth who gives to us our food,
Sun who makes it ripe and good,
Dearest Earth and dearest Sun,
Let's give thanks for all you've done.


Thank you for this food, this food, 
this glorious, glorious food!  
And the vegetables
And the animals, 
and the farmers 
who make this food possible.


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