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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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So excited. #freshginger #heartctgrown #notillfar

So excited.
#freshginger #heartctgrown #notillfarming #nothingsynthetic

I love our portable net fencing, but this set up w

I love our portable net fencing, but this set up with temporary strand has been amazing this year. We’ve used it with three different locations each multiple times this season. This is one of our pastures that we had to take down fencing for construction projects (note the pit, new ag well, electrical pedestal etc). We would not be able to use our netting here because of tight spacing for turns around obstacles and sharp elevation changes. We tap into our regular strand fencing (second to last pic, know that we were not the ones who used the tree- please never use a tree for securing fencing!!) and push the spool handles through hard fencing (this setup is a lil wonky because there’s a board on the other side) at the end.

#rotationalgrazing #premiereonefencing #neverendingprojects #smallflocklove

The first succession of sunflowers was felled to m

The first succession of sunflowers was felled to make way for a rush buckwheat cover crop before the garlic goes in. We madeSunflower teepees for the birds and bees to scavenge the final seeds and pollen.

#sunflowerforest #forts

It’s like we love Volkswagens or something. #su

It’s like we love Volkswagens or something. #superbug #vanagonshenanigans @softwarefarmer

New varieties of sunflowers, Lemon Drop peppers, e

New varieties of sunflowers, Lemon Drop peppers, edamame, and zinnias coming to @willifarmersmarket tomorrow along with Asian pears, tomatoes, loooooong beans, husk cherries, and tomatillos. And probably a few other things that I’m forgetting. #farmerbrain

#ajilimon #teddysunflowers #heartctgrown #notill #nospray

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Wasp #cuddlepuddle on the fig.

Wasp #cuddlepuddle on the fig.

Ingrid and Ged. Flüf and Doof. There’s too much

Ingrid and Ged. Flüf and Doof. There’s too much to say about everything I love about them so I’ll say nothing. If you have a dog (or have had one) you get me. If you don’t have a dog, I don’t think we can be friends.

#nationaldogday

I’ll have Sunnies, Asian Pears, on-the-vine cher

I’ll have Sunnies, Asian Pears, on-the-vine cherry tomatoes, Korean melon, sour gherkins, warted and delicious crookneck summer squash, purple Shiso, amazing garlic and so much more @willifarmersmarket tomorrow @willimantic_whitewater park from 8-12.

#heartctgrown #knowfarmsknowfood #notill #getthereearly #earlybirdgetsthetomato

#magicmolly very limited quantities get yours @wil

#magicmolly very limited quantities get yours @willifarmersmarket today 8-12. Ps I also have a few tomatoes and other things 😉

#damnitfeelsgood

#damnitfeelsgood

After a burnout July day hauling in the garlic I g

After a burnout July day hauling in the garlic I got to harvest these beautiful beets in thunder and lightning. They’re electric and they’re coming to market tomorrow so come show me some love and all the other badass farmers at the @willifarmersmarket Saturday morning from 8-12 at the @willimantic_whitewater park. #ilovebigbeetsandicannotlie

Chop n drop-ing the bush beans and taming the unde

Chop n drop-ing the bush beans and taming the understory of wood sorrel and clover so the baby fig trees (and eggplants that are intercropped with them) have more airflow and to keep the soil covered and fed. The butterfly weed and calendula- well I can’t turn away a pretty volunteer 😉 #notill #hightunnelgrowing #figtree #whitemarseillesfig #intercropping #gardenunderstory

More tomato 🍅 spam! #sorrynotsorry This is my

More tomato 🍅 spam! #sorrynotsorry

This is my first year growing in a high tunnel, and the EARLIEST I’ve EVER had tomatoes. These tomato plants (x400! I might have gone off the deep end) have sapped up so much of my labor and love since February. Weekly pruning and trellising for what seems like forever (really by the time I finish all of them, the ones I started with are ready again) but it’s all worth it to have an armload of Pineapple and Weisnichts Ukrainian slicers in early July.
#pineappletomato #weisnichtukranian #openpollinated #heartctgrown #smallfarm #notill #farmher

Heat broke, we got rain! 😁 Beautiful cloudy har

Heat broke, we got rain! 😁 Beautiful cloudy harvest morning scooping up bunches of rainbows from this ocean of chard 🌈 will be @willifarmersmarket this Saturday at the Whitewater Park on Bridge St from 8-12 #farmersmiles #notill #heartctgrown #rainbowchard

Monster TyeDye Berkeley, velvety dark Purple Calab

Monster TyeDye Berkeley, velvety dark Purple Calabash, and almost all of the cherry tomato varieties have started to be harvested. (Copper Beauty, Honeydrop, Pink Princess, Aosta Valley, Tropical Sunset, Be My Baby). Check out the spiny orbweaver Micrathena- there’s a bunch of them and their beautiful webs all over the high tunnel. #orbweaver #openpollinated #opensourceseedinitiative #copyleft #freetheseed #savetheseed #heartctgrown #notill #nosynthetics

Dude. I have cherry tomatoes 🍅 blueberries 🫐

Dude. I have cherry tomatoes 🍅 blueberries 🫐 kale, freedom lettuce, Bali Red chard, beets, carrots, green beans, peas, pink lady radishes, and green onions. Woot woot. @willifarmersmarket today at the Willimantic Whitewater Park from 8-12 today #gotellyourmama #heartctgrown

#wednesdayvibes #todayiswednesdayright

#wednesdayvibes #todayiswednesdayright

#pinkprincess #excitedswearing

#pinkprincess #excitedswearing

Loving and embracing these wild n free living path

Loving and embracing these wild n free living pathways. Persistent vetch, clovers, amaranth, calendulas. Tomatoes almost as tall as I am, zucchini taller!
#myhappiness #livingpathways #notill #heartctgrown #smallfarm #bigheart

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