First Farm Share!

Welcome to our first Farm Share of the main 2019 season! We love this new system to connect us with what our members want. Let us or the Harvie support team know if you have any questions or need help customizing your share.

We have a nice list of delicious options for you this first week, but it's common for early May shares to be the smallest of the season. The past 2-3 weeks have made for slower growth of our plants than we usually see in the end of April. This means there aren't as many options for you to customize your share this week as there will be in the future. If you've indicated a preference for our Breads or Seedlings to plant in your garden, you likely have one of those in your default share. If you don't, you can swap for either or both. If you don't want them, you can swap for something else, or you can always opt out of something entirely and choose instead for us to donate to the Food Bank at St. Stephen's church.

Thank you for your patience as our plants grow. Our fields look great! We anticipate them exploding nicely this month and more and more abundance will be ready to harvest in the coming weeks.

Thank you for being the most important part of our farm!

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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