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Farm Happenings at Broadfork Farm
All Pick Ups Normal for July 6
All Farm Share pick ups this week are normal, even with the July 4th Holiday. - 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 outsid1 read more »
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.
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TOMATOES, Bread, & FLOWERS are outside of the green boxes!
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-TOMATOES, Bread, & FLOWERS are always outside of the green boxes. Please be sure to collect yours each week if you have any of those items in your share. All pick up locations are similar: Tomatoes, Bread, & Flowers are in separate1 read more »
TOMATOES, Bread, & FLOWERS are outside of the green boxes!
-TOMATOES, Bread, & FLOWERS are always outside of the green boxes. Please be sure to collect yours each week if you have any of those items in your share. All pick up locations are similar: Tomatoes, Bread, & Flowers are in separate crates beside the stacks of green boxes.
If you don't chec1 read more »
TOMATOES, Bread, & FLOWERS are outside of the green boxes!
M.I.P.'s: (Most Important Points)
-TOMATOES, Bread, & FLOWERS are always outside of the green boxes. Please be sure to collect yours each week if you have any of those items in your share. (See picture above for what it looks like at our pick up at Perk! in Bon Air. All other pick up1 read more »
TOMATOES, Bread, & FLOWERS are outside of the green boxes!
M.I.P.'s: (Most Important Points)
-TOMATOES, Bread, & FLOWERS are always outside of the green boxes. Please be sure to collect yours each week if you have any of those items in your share. (See picture above for what it looks like at our pick up at Perk! in Bon Air. All other pick up1 read more »
TOMATOES, Bread, & FLOWERS are outside of the green boxes!
M.I.P.'s: (Most Important Points)
-TOMATOES, Bread, & FLOWERS are always outside of the green boxes. Please be sure to collect yours each week if you have any of those items in your share.
If you don't check your email to see if you have any of those in your share, you will be able to tel1 read more »
Farm Happenings for June 12, 2019
Real summer is upon us! Cucumber and Summer Squash/Zucchini are now overflowing with gusto. Get out the dill and the grill! We make lots of jars of refrigerator dill pickles in the summer (they are a great snack on hot days), and we grill summer squash a lot (we love how sweet and melty it gets wit1 read more »
Farm Happenings for June 8, 2019
A note about swapping items: A couple of members have reported that they believed they swapped out an item, but it still showed up on their share contents list. We reached out to the software support and they said to tell members that Internet Explorer does not save changes properly within Har1 read more »
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.