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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!

– 2021 Summer CSA enrollment is now closed –

Find our produce at the Willimantic Farmers Market every Saturday from the end of May through October!

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#proudmama again

#proudmama again

Another 400 tomato seeds ready for the germination

Another 400 tomato seeds ready for the germination chamber! I’m growing 14 different varieties this season. This round of mini blocks are the ten varieties from the saved seed from last years crop.

#seedsavers #miniblocks #openpollinated #frommyheadtomatoes #smallfarm

Wow! So much gratitude to our returning members an

Wow! So much gratitude to our returning members and the new ones joining us! #glassisallthewayfull

Happy National CSA Week! #csa #smallfarms #heartc

Happy National CSA Week!

#csa #smallfarms #heartctgrown #ctgrown #notill #nospray #knowyourfarmer #knowyourfood

Woot woot! Sign up on our website, link in bio! #

Woot woot! Sign up on our website, link in bio!

#getitwhileitlasts #ctgrown #smallfarm #summercsa #knowyourfarmer

#mending #cosmiccat #sunglasses #makethriftmend #m

#mending #cosmiccat #sunglasses #makethriftmend #meow

Potting soil from @earthcarefarm_ri was delivered!

Potting soil from @earthcarefarm_ri was delivered! Last year at @ctnofa Winter Conference we attended Jayne’s workshop on composting to help better our own compost practices. We definitely learned a lot, and we also found our new supplier for our soil-block mix. Their practices for creating their compost are transparent and align with our ideals. You can SMELL the difference, how alive their compost is. Buying a cubic yard in a sling tote was very economical, and has the added bonus of less waste with no individual plastic bags. Customer service was excellent, and I look forward to working with them again.

The best thing about being members of NOFA is the farmer-to-farmer education through the workshops at the Winter Conferences and the connections and relationships that follow. Im glad we were able to meet Jayne and get nerdy about compost almost a year ago. Makes me miss the in-person conferences this year all the more.

#smellyoursoil

#bigproject #almostdone #hope

#bigproject #almostdone #hope

We sled hardcore. So dedicated that our sled track

We sled hardcore. So dedicated that our sled track dictated high tunnel placement and we added a gate into our pasture just for sledding.
#sledding #marketgarden #inwinter #newengland #hightunnel #almostfinished

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Sheep butts as the flerd moves to the winter shelt

Sheep butts as the flerd moves to the winter shelter.

#novemberskies #smallfarm #sheeps #blusteryaf

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

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