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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!

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When emptying your harvest bucket turns into art.

When emptying your harvest bucket turns into art. Skunk beans (in varying dryness stages) surrounded by sunflower seed heads. And then into dinner.
Into the pot: green skunk beans not mature enough for saving seed, carrots and their tops, potatoes, onions, bones from our leg of goat roast the other night (all of which was born, raised, and harvested right here on our farm).

I find it poetic that the skunk beans, when not fully ripe, don’t have their colors. That Mother Nature saves their colors, their beauty, their individuality- for when they are ready for the world.

#savingseeds #slowfood #nourishthesoul #ctgrown #smallfarm #nospray #notill #hopiblackdyesunflower #haudenosauneeskunkbeans

I’ve been a little busy and thus a little silent

I’ve been a little busy and thus a little silent on social media lately. This is a sneak preview of a series of posts on seed saving from this season.

This is amaranth; specifically Hopi Red Dye. Pushing the flower seed heads along the mesh releases the seeds and is the first step of several to clean these tiny seeds of their mother plant.

I love that every seed has its own song- both as a living plant in the way it sounds in the breeze or shifts in the light- and as a seed being saved. The little “tink” of amaranth coupled with the mesh is so different than say the loud clunk of a pea and the pop of its dry crunchy pod.

#seedsaving #seedstewardship #hopireddyeamaranth #seedsongs #ctgrown #smallfarm #notill #nospray

I always take the longest to harvest Sunflowers 🌻. Who stays for the bees, who stays for the birds, who comes with me to @willifarmersmarket tomorrow morning.

#feedthebees #seedsaving #sunflowers #nativepollinators #ctgrown #notillfarming #nospray #smallfarm #bigflowers

#rotationalgrazing #smallfarm #farmfiber

#rotationalgrazing #smallfarm #farmfiber

Past Self: let’s not have Tomatillo Jungle this

Past Self: let’s not have Tomatillo Jungle this year. Remember to space them out and plant less tomatillos.
Other Past Self: oh good someone left room in the tomatillos for huge winter squash and sunflowers!
Present Self: who made this Effin jungle??

Regrets? Not sure yet....

#sendhelp #welcometothejungle #tomatillotuesday #intercropping #thepathnottraveled #causeicantfindit #ctgrown #notill #nospray

Sunflower shoots from Madman Microgreens. Kimchi m

Sunflower shoots from Madman Microgreens. Kimchi made from my radishes beets hot peppers garlic and @russosroots cabbage. Lamb heart from @kindredcrossingsfarm cooked in my own lard and homemade mayonnaise with eggs from Swampy Acres. All vendors from @willifarmersmarket

#farmerlunch #ctgrown #smallfarms #romanticwillimantic

When your youngest knows heat exhaustion might dis

When your youngest knows heat exhaustion might disorient you and helps you out.

#farmingtruths #thanksdude

Little humans helping set up a shade cover over li

Little humans helping set up a shade cover over little lettuce.

#earlyrisersclub #ctgrown #notill #smallfarms #sunbeams #sunrise

Final pea harvest tonight. The rest will continue

Final pea harvest tonight. The rest will continue to dry for seed for next year, along with some beautiful #freedomlettuce towering before flowering (it’s already up to my hip).

#seedsaving #seedstewardship #smallfarms #notill #ctgrown

Early morning. Chard with kale seed with calendula

Early morning. Chard with kale seed with calendula. Zeolights calendula. Kale, beets, leeks, clover. Sunbeams over East plots.

#notill #smallfarms #ctgrown #intercropping #seedsaving #sunbeams

This year I’ve been totally loving the intercrop

This year I’ve been totally loving the intercropping. Aiming for diversity both above and below the soil, every bed has at least two different crops, most three. Combinations range from common ones like peas and lettuce, to weird ones like amaranth and onions. Pictured is golden beets, kale, leeks, and volunteer clover.

#notill #ctgrown #smallfarms #kaleyeah #dropabeetyo

Garlic scapes, head lettuce, and rhubarb will be @

Garlic scapes, head lettuce, and rhubarb will be @willifarmersmarket tomorrow 8-12 at Jillson Square.
#ctgrown #smallfarm #romanticwillimantic #knowyourfarmer #knowyourfood #notill #nospray

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

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