Our Farmstand opens with some of the early spring greens (salad mix, pea greens, arugula) on Thursday afternoon April 11, then onward from there with more greens and goodies as the season progresses!

The Farmstand: Our solar powered farmstand is located at our site, 165 Chestnut Hill Road, Orange.  Self-serve, open daylight hours. We are famous for our delicious salads and greens, grown in fertile soil in our solar greenhouses and available April through November. Cash or checks, and we have an IOU/UOMe book too! Our prices are kept reasonable to feed our community with fresh healthy food. We also supply some of our bunching greens to Quabbin Harvest coop in Orange. Our garlic is sold at the North Quabbin Garlic and Arts Festival. Please check out our calendar of events and workshops, including visiting days and our popular no-till farming and gardening workshops. We also have a free library on our site. Take a book!

The Art: As both farmer and artist, Ricky creates beautiful, sacred rustic pieces for custom order. Pieces are made from local red cedar, harvested with love, then crafted by hand into meditation benches, altars, tables, and coat racks, with beautiful inlays of blue corn and red pepper- looks like precious stone! All done with love, in a solar powered studio on our farm.

The phone number for the farm is 978-544-7564. Ask for Ricky, and feel free to leave a message.Your purchases support our livelihood as a family working with the land. 

At the farmstand, there is always some interesting reading about upcoming events, or Ricky’s “cooler blog,” his notes on life, food, farming, and community left for visitors on the cooler door, such as this excerpt:Tuesday Aug 29: We survived the hurricane of 2011. Many farms did not fare well. When I was looking for my first farm 25 years ago the place to look for was river-bottom land. Now river-bottom land gets 100-year floods, three years in a row! Things have changed and we must adapt. Farming up in the hills, cities, suburbs–making soil is the future. May all neighborhoods everywhere come together to create resilient and healthy communities. In solidarity, Ricky