Our Farm Story

Derek and I started looking for a piece of land to call our own officially in 2005. We must have looked at 30 different places all over the central part of the Island. We had almost given up hope of ever finding our own farm and I will always remember the day I saw our future farm listed for sale. Within seven days we had gone to look at it and within a few more it was sold.

The farm consists of 204 acres with 130 acres wooded and the rest a mix of pasture, creeks, and beautiful rolling hills. The forested area is made up mostly of hardwood and the more we look the more softwood we are finding. It needs some management but we hope to eventually be able to pull out our own lumber to build a new barn. After we moved in the fall of 2006 we cut our own firewood and after it had dried used it to heat our house in the spring of 2007. What a feeling to know our own land can provide us with so much.

We are in our certification year and will be certified organic as soon as the inspection has taken place. Our farm has previously been used for conventional potato rotation so we knew we had our work ahead of us converting it over to organic land. In 2006 we put in 25 acres of cover crops to help improve soil fertility and have better pasture for our horses and pastured raised chickens.

Since buying the farm in September 2006 we have purchased a White 2-60 tractor (aka the battle ship), a three furrow plow, discs, hay escalator, manure spreader, and we are still on the hunt for some more vital pieces of equiptment including a hay mower and a set of harrows.