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Farm Happenings at Broadfork Farm
Bread Shares for November 4, 2023
Here is your Bread Share email!
This email is just for Bread Share members so that you can select your loaf variety through this software. You'll get an email like this each week that you have a Bread Share scheduled. Log in below or with this link and see your loaf options for this week1 read more »
Farm Happenings for November 4, 2023
Well, this is the morning of truth. It got down to 25 or 26 here this morning. We'll find out soon how plants fared. Yesterday our crew spent hours covering rows of plants with row cover - long pieces of lightweight agricultural "blankets" that keep some of the cold off the plants. However, we can'1 read more »
Bread Shares for November 1, 2023
Here is your Bread Share email!
This email is just for Bread Share members so that you can select your loaf variety through this software. You'll get an email like this each week that you have a Bread Share scheduled. Log in below or with this link and see your loaf options for this week1 read more »
We're still planting...Farm Shares for November 1, 2023
REMINDER: this year's final Farm Shares are Nov 18th. For every-other-week members, you may finish the week prior.
Even though our Farm Share ends Nov 18, we keep growing through most of the winter. Quantity and diversity goes way down, so we don't offer shares, but we bring vegetables to the1 read more »
Bread Shares for October 28, 2023
REMINDER: this year's final Farm Shares are Nov 18th. For every-other-week members, you may finish the week prior.
Full details are in a few emails we've sent your way over the past two weeks.
Here is your Bread Share email!
This email is just for Bread Share members so that you can sel1 read more »
First Frost! & Farm Shares for October 28, 2023
The first frost of the season arrived on our farm on Monday morning! Light and patchy, just the way we like it, after a few weeks of gradually lowering temps. This helps the plants adjust their internal composition in order to harden themselves for freezing temps. A frost is not a freeze and plants1 read more »
First Frost! & Farm Share for October 25, 2023
The first frost of the season arrived on our farm this morning! Light and patchy, just the way we like it, after a few weeks of gradually lowering temps. This helps the plants adjust their internal composition in order to harden themselves for freezing temps. A frost is not a freeze and plants are1 read more »
Bread Shares for October 25, 2023
REMINDER: this year's final Farm Shares are Nov 18th. For every-other-week members, you may finish the week prior.
Full details are in a few emails we've sent your way over the past two weeks.
Here is your Bread Share email!
This email is just for Bread Share members so that you can sel1 read more »
Bread Shares for October 21, 2023
Your Farm Share will automatically renew into the 2024 season TOMORROW Friday, October 20th.(unless you've already opted out of auto-renew)
REMINDER: this year's final Farm Shares are Nov 18th. For every-other-week members, you may finish the week prior.
Full details are in a few emails we've1 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.