About Us
About Us
Why farm on just a quart acre? Why Not? A quarter acre is plenty of land to produce not only for our family but for our community. When we moved to Scarborough we had no intention of bringing our farm with us. Then when we moved in we saw how much effort and resources we were using to grow grass, and then asked ourselves WHY. WHY GRASS?!?!?!?! Don't get me wrong, grass is a great play surface, but that's about it. It doesn't produce flowers, it doesn't produce food, it's horrible for the soil, sooooo WHY GROW IT? Looking at our plot on google earth it became apparent how much of our land was basically useless. Our kids we'ren't playing in our front yard or the small patches around the sides of our garage, thousands of square feet. So we made the choice to start changing our landscape, literally. I got an electric tiller, and began tilling it all under. Our goal is clear, least grass possible where no one uses it. We're in the process of replacing most of it with native plants, vegetables, fruiting plants, and spots for our animals and kids to enjoy. Does that mean no grass? Unfortunately, no, we will still have grass in our backyard for the kids to run on, I'll likely leave some grass by the road as errosion control and a spot for keeping the road salt from getting to the plants I care about (but I can be convinced otherwise if someone has ideas!).
Why bees, chickens and quail? Our journey to our farm animals has been unique. Sara occassionally brought up the idea of chickens for years, and I (Tim) resisted. I had chickens as a kid and did not enjoy it. So in 2024 I did some research and found quail might be a more palitable alternative, they're quiet, basically don't smell, and friendly and SMALL. So we got our first Bevy of quail, and fell in love with the birds and they're stinkin cute eggs. Winter 2024 our oldest started asking about bees, soon we had read every book in the library. I brought her to the Honey Exchange and she went bananas for their observation hive and we ordered our first hive and bees. She still tends the bees with me and the whole family LOVES honey harvesting and the honey that follows. Chickens are the doing of my middle child, she started to express interest around the same time my wife asked if it made sense for us to keep them. About two weeks later we brought our flock home. I can't say how much having chickens has meant to our middle child, overnight she came out of her shell and is a new person. We call them her emotional support chickens, something about watching and being around those birds and collecting their eggs has made her a new person, it's the coolest thing.
What do you grow? For the most part, this changes year to year. We put out a survey to our customers and the farms we wholesale sell to and go off that, we're working on refining our lineup and are always looking to get suggestions. WITH THAT SAID we will have apples trees, hazelnuts, blueberry, raspberry and cranberry bushes maturing in the coming years as are excited for when we can offer those in addition to our annual crops.
Are you actually a farm? Yes. We are registered with the USDA as official farm land, we file a schedule F with the IRS (technically we're a bee farm as far as they're concerned which is fun) and we are filed with our town.