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Farm Happenings at Broadfork Farm
Bread Shares for July 8, 2023
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Farm Updates - plus: Want to help us on the farm in the next two weeks?
Happy July! It's tough to bend the work of farming around holidays, so this week's farm work has run as usual. We celebrated our country's independence while farming for you on Tuesday, July 4!
Meanwhile...as you can tell from the photos below, we're hitting stay-silly-to-stay-sane mode throu1 read more »
Bread Shares for July 5, 2023
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Farm Shares for July 5, 2023
Happy July! It's tough to bend the work of farming around holidays, so this week's Farm Share runs on schedule. We'll celebrate our country's independence while farming for you on Tuesday, July 4, and we'll have your food (and flowers) like usual on Wednesday, July 5th.
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Bread Shares for July 1, 2023
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The HOT Season... for July 1, 2023
Farm happenings: Our cool, dry spring is over and conditions are now HOT and WET. Vegetable plants don't love these conditions, so a lot of our energy is now focused on trying to mitigate the disease that takes hold in this weather. Interestingly, bugs also love the heat and humidity so bug pressur1 read more »
Farm Happenings for June 28, 2023
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The Start of REAL SUMMER for June 28, 2023
Pictured above: some of the thousands of heads of garlic we're currently bringing in from the field and hanging in our barn to dry. We love garlic!
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Bread Shares for June 24, 2023
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About the farm
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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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.