Pick Ups Normal for July 3, 2019

All Farm Share pick ups this week are normal, even with the July 4th Holiday.
**Perk Coffee is closed, but the door will be unlocked with staff inside doing deep cleaning. Shares will be inside in the air conditioning.

- TOMATOES, Bread, and FLOWERS are always separate from the green boxes.

- PLEASE tell anyone you have picking up your share for you that they need to find the box with your name on it, plus any items of yours outside of the box.

- Join our Facebook group for our Farm Share members

- Read our farm's blog to hear and see thoughts and pictures during the season.

Thank you for eating this food!

Best,
Janet & Dan

Owned and operated by Janet Aardema and Dan Gagnon, Broadfork is a small family farm in Chesterfield, VA providing the metro-Richmond area with Certified Naturally Grown vegetables, herbs, and flowers.
We use traditional European methods of biointensive, raised bed production while maximizing soil and plant health for nutrition and sustainability. No synthetic/chemical fertilizer, pesticide, herbicide, or fungicide is ever used in any part of the process of growing your food. Everything we sell is grown by us, and we farm full-time, supporting ourselves and our four children through our farm business.

Growing practices at Broadfork utilize only ecological methods: compost, cover crops, organic fertilizer, and minerals are used to feed the soil that feeds our plants. Raised beds are used to prevent soil-compaction, allowing for happier plant roots. We use organic potting soil and fertilizer, as well as amendments like fish emulsion and sea minerals. No chemical fertilizers, herbicides, fungicides, or pesticides are ever used on your food and we are Certified Naturally Grown (which follows the same national standards used for Organic Certification). We are also proud members of the Virginia Association for Biological Farming and Slow Food RVA. Janet and Dan both hold Bachelor’s Degrees in Biology from Davidson and Lafayette Colleges, respectively. Janet holds a Master’s Degree in Education from the Harvard Graduate School of Education. We both thrive on putting our biology backgrounds to use in a farm setting and share a passion for farm education.

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