Grow Food Northampton

What’s Happening!

Children’s farm education courses this Spring

Again this Spring, we are partnering with The Farm Education Collaborative to bring excellent pre-school, home-school and after-school programs to Crimson & Clover Farm. Learn more and register. Read More

Florence Organic Community Garden (FOG)
plot registration underway

After our community garden’s successful first year, we are doubling our size in 2013. Registration for garden plots has begun, but there are still more to lease! Read More

We make food and land accessible and affordable

Low-income households may qualify for low-cost community garden plots, fresh vegetables, and youth farm education programs. Spring is the time to register for these opportunities, so please read on! Read More

Boston Globe Sunday Magazine features our farm

Grow Food Northampton is featured among several green initiatives in Northampton. “The farm isn’t just a “defense against climate disruption,” it’s a unifying force. “There are so many positive aspects to the project,” {Lilly Lombard, Executive Director} says. “It gets people physically active, eating good food, talking to their neighbors, and actively preparing for an uncertain future by strengthening their resource base. All contribute to what I would call community resilience building.” Read Article

Sawmill Farm Collective joins our farm family

Grow Food Northampton welcomes Sawmill Farm Collective, a brand new farm business operated by Kevin Korb and Susan Pincus. As GFN’s very first “Market Plot” lessee, Sawmill Farm Collective will grow medicinal herbs and gourmet salad mix intensively on 1.5 acres of our South Field, right on the corner of Meadow and Spring Streets. Farming organically in the Pioneer Valley since 2008, Susan and Kevin met working at Red Fire Farm, one of the Valley’s most successful vegetable farms. This season you can find Kevin and Susan’s salad and herbs at Evolution Café , Cup & Top, and the Haymarket Café in Northampton/Florence, and at a local farmers market. Sawmill Farm Collective will also offer one of the Valley’s only medicinal herb CSAs. Visit them at www.sawmillcollective.com.

Slow Tractor Farm–growing grain at the Farm

Last spring, Grow Food Northampton signed a three-year lease of it’s 10-acre “East Field” to Slow Tractor Farm, owned by Andrea and Christian Stanley of Hadley, MA. They grew grain at the Northampton Community Farm for their malt business, Valley Malt, and supplying local craft breweries with 100% local malted grain! Read More

Crimson & Clover CSA

Now enrolling shareholders for the 2013 season! Crimson and Clover Farm is our “anchor” CSA farm growing vegetables and fruit sustainably to 315 shareholders, hosting educational programming, and donating thousands of pounds of produce each year to hunger relief programs.