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Farm Happenings at Root 5 Farm
First Week of Fruit Shares!!
We're trying a new feature this year with customizable fruit shares. This week we're featuring blueberries from Newbury Blueberry and apricots from Slice of Earth Farm. You can customize your selection, just like your vegetable share, so mix and match or add extras if you wish. We'll expand our var1 read more »
Tomatoes and Basil, Together Again!
Tomato abundance time is here! San marzanos (romas), rebelskis (slicers), and sakuras (cherries) are all ripening steadily now. Heirlooms are still to come. We also have gorgeous overflowing beds of basil. It's the perfect time to make pesto pasta or tomato and mozzarella caprese salad for those no1 read more »
Always Changing
This week we've been enjoying the diversity of our fields, a beautiful patchwork of crops always changing, new crops going in others coming out. We let some crops like arugula, dill, cilantro, and mustard greens go to flower after we've harvested them once, and it's wonderful to see pollinators and1 read more »
Plenty
The list expands again this week as we enter the season of abundance. Summer squash, tomatoes, gorgeous greens and herbs of all kinds, head lettuce, cabbage, scallions, green peppers, radishes, turnips, carrots, beets, and cucumbers are all available now.
With so much variety and choice, it1 read more »
Meet the crew that makes it all happen!
Top Row: Nick, Liam, Robert, Mariah, Meg, Benner, Brian. Bottom Row: Seth, Danielle, Shayne, Cindy
This is the team that does it all! From bed prep to CSA pack and everything in between. This group of hard working folks shows up at 7am ready to work, rain or shine, hot or cold, winter, spring, summ1 read more »
Abundant Greens + Strawberries!
The weather has been ideal for greens these past few weeks- warm days, cool nights, just enough rain but not too much. So we have an abundance of gorgeous greens of all kinds right now. Stock up while they're at their best!
Plus it's peak strawberry season in the Upper Valley, so we've sourced some1 read more »
Summer Solstice
We’ve reached the longest days of the year, the highest arc of the sun in our part of the world, with an amazing 16 hours of daylight shining down on us. This marks a significant turning point in vegetable farming, as we're shifting through this period of lush vegetative growth and now fruits1 read more »
Dreamy June
Gentle rains, warm sunshine, an amazing hard working crew, a genuinely helpful 5-year old, twelve foot tall cucumber vines in June. What more can we ask for??? These are the long, sunny days of our dreams.
It's been an incredibly productive week at the farm, the crops are really looking great, it f1 read more »
Beginnings
The first full week of June has arrived and so we begin our Summer CSA Shares. We're so excited to bring you fresh, delicious organic vegetables from our fields over the next 21 weeks. We're amazed and humbled as we enter our 10th year farming on this land because many of you, our dedicated CSA mem1 read more »
About the farm
Root 5 Farm is a certified organic vegetable farm located on 38 acres in Fairlee, Vermont, along the Connecticut River. The fertile river bottom soils provide a rich environment for growing over 100 different varieties of vegetables and herbs.
The farm has been certified organic by Vermont Organic Farmers (VOF) since 2006. We are dedicated to growing practices that use a holistic approach to soil fertility, pest control and plant and animal health. We build our soil through crop rotation and cover cropping. We're committed to a healthy workplace, environment, and community, and our products are infused with that attention. You’ll taste the difference!
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The farm has been certified organic by Vermont Organic Farmers (VOF) since 2006. We are dedicated to growing practices that use a holistic approach to soil fertility, pest control and plant and animal health. We build our soil through crop rotation and cover cropping. We're committed to a healthy workplace, environment, and community, and our products are infused with that attention. You’ll taste the difference!