Home Page - Brown Farm

Located in rural Scotland, Connecticut, Brown Farm is dedicated to providing high-quality farm products and lifelong learning services. Take a look at our events page to view upcoming farmers markets and other events where you’ll find us!

2020 Summer CSA enrollment is now closed! Thanks to all of our 2020 CSA members for supporting us!

brownfarmct

Apparently the Farm needs me to grow these baby Pe

Apparently the Farm needs me to grow these baby Peach trees that she sprouted in the market garden. Good thing I have spare time HAHAHA
#sparetime #hilarious #farmerjokes

One of those mornings where an hourlong project ta

One of those mornings where an hourlong project takes about three, but totally worth getting the weird spot between the Western arrays and fruit trees mowed by the sheep.
#lawnmower #isitspringyet

Not a flashy photo set. I was putting tarps back o

Not a flashy photo set. I was putting tarps back on beds that had blown off yesterday and was excited to see fully decomposed radish roots leaving lovely pathways in the beds and a plethora of fungi action. There’s also still a great mulch layer from the oats that will be perfect to transplant in to within the next week.
#notillfarming #covercrops #fungilove #nerdalert

Filling barrels of water in the prophouse. The tho

Filling barrels of water in the prophouse. The thousand or so transplants waiting out the weather in here will need water even if we don’t have power from the wind forecasted for today. 🤞🏻🤞🏻🤞🏻
#ctgrown #smallfarm #aprilshowers

Come one! Come ALL To the Windham Town Hall! Sign

Come one! Come ALL
To the Windham Town Hall!
Sign up for a CSA (or win one!) at the 5th Annual @knowyourfarmerfair
#nationalcsaday #csa #smallfarm #bigheart #ctgrown #quietcornerct #maythefarmbewithyou

Link to our website in bio or head over to BrownFa

Link to our website in bio or head over to BrownFarmCT.com for more information and to sign up for one of our CSA options
Plus, this Saturday from 10-1 I’ll be @knowyourfarmerfair and I’ll happily talk about the ins and outs of CSAs and how I grow. And you can enter to win a halfshare #winning
#themostwonderfultimeoftheyear #csa #signmeup #youshouldsignup #knowyourfarmer #knowyourfood #ctgrown #quietcornerct

Come take a selfie with me at the @knowyourfarmerf

Come take a selfie with me at the @knowyourfarmerfair at the end of the month! Myself and dozens of other farmers will be in the beautiful Windham Town Hall from 10-1 on the 29th of February so you can ask us all the important questions like why we grow and how we grow. Oh, and enter to win a really awesome thing that supports a farmer, feeds your family, supports a local economy, has a very small carbon footprint, encourages trying new things and eating healthy. In other words, #checkalltheboxes
#knowyourfarmer #knowyourfood #farmerselfie #bestselfie #ctgrown #quietcornerct #csa

Sneak peek at a different flavor of a CSA! This se

Sneak peek at a different flavor of a CSA! This season, in addition to our regular “farmers choice” CSA, we will offer a Customer Choice option in the form of a punch card. Available in two sizes: a 4 item per punch or a 10 item per punch. Each card has 15 punches and can be used throughout the season. Going on vacation and would miss a week in a traditional CSA? No problem! Having extended family over and need more fresh veggies? Use two punches! Come visit me at the @knowyourfarmerfair to get a punch card!

#csa #newflavor #knowyourfarmer #imexcited #youshouldbetoo

Some jerry-riggings accomplished to re-anchor the

Some jerry-riggings accomplished to re-anchor the low tunnels after all that wind. Thankful there are only seeds waiting for longer days under them and not a frozen and failed crop.

Bending low tunnel pipes with a pretty ok view.

Bending low tunnel pipes with a pretty ok view.

Check out these forage radishes! We went nuts with

Check out these forage radishes! We went nuts with cover crops this year to help feed the soil through the winter and used a mix of clover, oats and forage radishes in 90% of our beds. (the rest is an experimental late-planted rye and garlic.) An unintended bonus of using these long tap roots is having a visual where I have a hard pan that needs extra attention. By pulling a sample from each plot I can literally see at what depth the radish was in the ground when it started to push out of the earth to continue growing rather than pushing through the soil.
#notill #feedthesoil #covercrop #smallfarm

Chestnuts 🌰 and Sunchoke Roots joining the fall

Chestnuts 🌰 and Sunchoke Roots joining the fall produce lineup tomorrow morning @willifarmersmarket

Sweatshirt scoop of baby chicks. #nuffsaid

Sweatshirt scoop of baby chicks. #nuffsaid

Flower harvest for bouquets going to double decker

Flower harvest for bouquets going to double decker markets this Saturday.

Last fall we planted 2 beds of garlic with just ov

Last fall we planted 2 beds of garlic with just over 8 pounds of seed. That yielded almost 28 pounds of garlic this year, all trimmed and proper. 21 pounds will be going back in the soil as seed garlic (6.5 lbs of that are heads that are 40 grams or more each, the rest was selected for color, uniformity, and if it told a good garlic joke). The rest is for our family, friends, and our CSAs.
#garlic #stats #pickyourfantasygarlicteam

You should have heard my shrieks every time I foun

You should have heard my shrieks every time I found one of these bad boys 🤪

Grandma Mary is about to stampede in on Green Zebr

Grandma Mary is about to stampede in on Green Zebras along with the rest of the heirloom herd of tomatoes 🍅
#farmerlingo #thatswhatsup

Instagram post 17976660724278436

Instagram post 17976660724278436

PSA: You should bring a reusable bag every where.

PSA: You should bring a reusable bag every where. Including the farmers market 😉 That being said, sometimes we all forget. I got your back! Starting this weekend at @willifarmersmarket I will have miscellaneous reusable bags available at my tent and proceeds will benefit the market (and thus all the benefits the market provides like doubling WIC AND Senior checks AND SNAP benefits)

#savethefuckingearth #feedthepeople #makeart #allinadayswork

Load More... Follow on Instagram