Real Organic Project: Know Your Farmer Series We've teamed up with this farmer-led movement created to distinguish soil-grown and pasture-raised products under USDA Organic for this exclusive series!
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Real Organic Project: Know Your Farmer Series
1. Crystal Spring Farm, a Real Organic Dairy Farm
Crystal Springs Farm is home to over 300 Holstein cattle and are proud to be one of few dairy farms that not only raises cattle, grows their own feed, but also bottles their own milk products and packages their own ice cream. In 1975, they built their retail store to provide the public with their fresh dairy products.
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2. Herb Farmacy (now Anything Grows)
The Herb Farmacy (rebranded as Anything Grows Farm) is headed by Farmer Rijk Gupta. Rijk studied horticulture at UMASS Amherst with a focus in fruit and vegetable production and later mycology in graduate school at UW LaCrosse. He has been passionate about growing the highest quality foods for people who care about it. Working through the years in various avenues of horticulture, from nursery work to public gardening, Rijk has gained vast knowledge and experience to grow an eclectic selection of ornamental, annual and perennial plants.  
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3. Hidden Acre Farm: Building Organic Matter in Soil
Hidden Acre Farm is located on 15 acres of land in Bloomingburg NY. They’re on the southern tip of the Catskill Mountains, in the Hudson Valley, New York State. The Shawnagunk Kill runs through the property and in the distant past, circa 10, 000 years ago, the glaciers melted themselves all over our land and left them with some very favorable soils. In the much more recent past, Hidden Acre Farm was the Miller Farm and Dairy. Their main field space hadn’t been in production for years before their first growing season in 2019. As such, much of their time and effort in their first seasons on this land has been spent regenerating the farms infrastructure and building up the organic matter in our soils, in order to consistently churn out the highest quality, most nutrient dense produce possible.
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4. Milkweed Farm
Milkweed Farm is a diversified vegetable and flower farm in Westminster, Vermont run by Jonah Mossberg and Emily Hartz.  They began in 2017 and continue to proudly raise vegetables and flowers using no-till methods and the highest standards of organic production in our fields. All of the food they grow stays in our local community and their Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) program is the cornerstone of what they do.
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5. Orange Circle Farm, a CSA Vegetable and Flower Farm
Orange Circle Farm is a CSA vegetable and flower farm run by Jeff Benton and located in Berwick, Maine.  The farm is on 70 acres of land placed under an agricultural conservation easement in 2017 by Maine Farmland Trust.  The farm was purchased in 2017 with production beginning in 2018. In 2014, Jeff started Orange Circle Farm on leased land in Stratham, New Hampshire, after several years working on other Seacoast farms.
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6. Eat More Veggies With Ripley Farm
Gene and Mary Margaret Ripley, owners at Ripley Farm in Dover-Foxcroft, Maine, have dedicated the last 15 years to growing, cooking, and eating local, seasonal, and organic veggies and other foods. For the past decade, they have been sharing what they’ve learned with their farm’s community through our organic vegetables and ‘eat more veggies’ recipes, classes, newsletters, blog posts and more.
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7. Rock Maple Farm: Organic farm, Kitchen, and Smokehouse
Rock Maple Farms is a family-owned organic farm, commercial kitchen, and smokehouse. Alan Burnes and his family are proud producers of gourmet organic meat and poultry, dairy products and other assorted delicacies.
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8. Rusty Plough Farm: Eggs and Vegetables
After 25 years of selling veggies to their neighbors, Farmers Nadia and Oleh Maczaj officially retired the Rusty Plough Farm business after the 2021 season. They continue to enjoy the eggs from their flock of hens and planting out things they just can't live without in their kitchen: onions, garlic, lettuce, asparagus, strawberries, herbs, and other various yummies.
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