A NO-TILL MARKET GARDEN ON TWO ACRES

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A small no-till market garden growing salad, roots, alliums and fruit for weekly share boxes, the farm gate and local restaurants. Planted in succession so there is something fresh every week of the season.

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THIS WEEK'S HARVEST

Picked this morning

Salad and greens

  • Salad mix$6 per bag
    Cut at dawn. Lettuces, mustards and a little arugula.
  • Spinach$5 per bag
    Baby leaf, washed.
  • Kale$4 per bunch
    Curly and lacinato.

Roots and alliums

  • Carrots$4 per bunch
    Pulled this morning, tops on.
  • Beets$4 per bunch
    Red and golden, with greens.
  • Spring onions$3 per bunch

Fruit and vine

  • Tomatoes$5 per pound
    Heirloom mix from the hoop house.
  • Cucumbers$2 each
  • Strawberries$6 per pint
    While they last.
2
Acres in permanent no-till beds
40
Weeks of harvest each year
300
Share boxes packed each week in peak season
60+
Crops grown through the season

WHAT WE DO

Boxes, the gate, kitchens and the greenhouse

Weekly share boxes

A box of the week's harvest, sized for a household, for the length of the season.

Farm gate stand

Self-serve stand at the gate on harvest days with everything picked that morning.

Restaurant supply

Weekly harvest lists for kitchens that want what is at its best right now.

Salad and greens

Cut-and-come-again salad mix, spinach and kale every week from March to December.

Seedlings in spring

Vegetable and herb starts from our greenhouse for your own garden.

Two acres, worked intensively and never left bare

The beds here are permanent and never tilled. Compost goes on top, crops are planted close together in succession, and the soil is covered all year round. That is how two acres feed several hundred households and get better every season rather than worse.

Everything is harvested the morning it is sold. Salad is cut at dawn and in the cooler within the hour, roots are washed the same day, and the share box you collect on Thursday was in the ground on Wednesday.

On every bed

  • Never tilled
  • Compost on top, every season
  • Planted in succession, close together
  • Drip irrigation
  • Covered all winter
  • Weeded by hand and hoe

SEED TO BOX

How a share box comes together

1. Plan

The winter is spent on the crop plan: what, where, how much and when, bed by bed.

2. Sow

Seeds start in the greenhouse from February and go into the beds in succession every week.

3. Tend

Beds are weeded by hand and hoe, watered by drip, and covered with row cover as the weather needs.

4. Harvest

Picked at dawn, washed and cooled the same morning, packed into boxes and onto the stand by noon.

THROUGH THE SEASON

What the beds look like, month to month

March

Greenhouse full of seedlings, first beds under cover.

May

Salad, radishes and the first peas.

July

Tomatoes in the hoop house, beans on the trellis.

September

Squash curing, roots coming out.

November

Beds covered, garlic in, greens under low tunnels.

January

The crop plan on the kitchen table.

FROM MEMBERS

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QUESTIONS

About the boxes and the growing

Whatever is at its best that week: greens and radishes early in the season, tomatoes, beans and cucumbers in summer, squash, roots and brassicas in the fall. A typical box holds seven to ten items; the current week's list is on the harvest page.

The beds are never ploughed or rotovated. Compost is spread on top and crops go in through it, so the soil structure and the life in it are left intact. It is more work up front and far less every year after.

Grown without synthetic fertilizers or pesticides, on compost and cover crops, and we will explain any practice you ask about. Certification is a separate question we are glad to discuss.

The core of the box follows the harvest, and a swap table at pickup lets you trade an item you do not want for one you do.

The harvest list, every Wednesday

What is coming out of the beds this week and what will be at the gate. One email, no filler.

Get the list

Join a share for the season

A box of the week's harvest, sized for your household, collected at the gate or a pickup point.

  • Forty weeks of harvest
  • Swap table at pickup
  • Skip a week when you travel
See the boxes