HARTWOOD FARM

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The Hartwood Farm family includes Matt, Maryellen, and our enthusiastic farm dog in-training Beulah.
We began farming in 1998 (except for Beulah, whose only began creepily smiling at farm visitors in 2018), and started Hartwood Farm in 2012.
We landed here because we used to grow hops in NH (did you know Madison County was a historic center of east coast hops production?), and because central NY is the midway point between Matt’s NH home and Maryellen’s Midwestern family, with both rolling hills and lake effect!
Maryellen grew up in Indiana, working with horses and being an indentured garden servant for her father, before beginning working on diversified vegetable and livestock farms in the northeast in 1998. Her early farm adventures including helping crash a tractor through a stone wall and finding a live grenade while harvesting potatoes.
Matt grew up on a family homestead in NH and worked for many years as a carpenter, with his early farm adventures included having at some point pretty much every animal that lives in New England (though he wasn't allowed to keep the porcupine).
We met in NH in 2001, where Maryellen had a market garden and CSA farm. In 2008, we headed west to NY's Hudson Valley for a change of pace, where Maryellen managed a large educational farm and Matt was field manager at the awesome Hearty Roots Farm. And them we found the land that became Hartwood Farm...
Beyond the farm, we both love hiking and exploring the Adirondacks (when we can). Maryellen played and now refs roller derby, Matt does leather working, and Beulah slinks through the bushes to spy on our neighbors.
We love CSA with a passion--it's our favorite way to farm because it gives us a chance to know our members and share our farm and our food with a great group of people!
We distribute shares for CSA members in Fayetteville, Liverpool, Manlius, Syracuse, and at the farm, and also attend the Cazenovia Farmers Market.
We look forward to growing for you!
How We Farm:
A rainbow setting over the farm pond and farm dog beulah, making the sky glow
Hartwood Farm has 70 Certified Organic acres, with ten acres under active production and five acres of those in vegetables each year. The farm sits in a breezy upland spot in the hills of Fenner, with mild temperatures, great limestone soils (though a bit heavy on the stone part!), and lots of exciting wind.
CSA members and the community are welcome to explore the farm--besides the vegetable fields we have crop fields rotating through "green manure" crops to build fertility for future production, 30 acres of hayfields (the hay gets eaten by the bison down the hill at Empire Buffalo!), and 25 acres in a young sugar bush way out back that we dream of tapping one day.
The O.G. Farm Dog Arlo looking over beds of chard, kale, peas, and scallions
We are 100% committed to raising healthy and delicious food to feed our central NY community--a healthy environment is important to us, and we only grow crops that we feel great about eating and sharing. Hartwood Farm is organic, with the long term goal of building up the good soil health and biodiversity that makes for the best tasting vegetables.
Some of these practices include using cover crops to protect soil from erosion and leaching, rotating crops to naturally reduce disease and pests, irrigating with drip systems to minimize water use, preventing pest damage with reusable floating row covers, and only using natural, organically approved sprays. Ask us if you have any questions, are interested in gardening, or just want to know more--
our vegetables:
Hartwood Farm grows a complete A to Z range of vegetables, flowers, and herbs, from arugula to zucchini. Our crops include (among other things): beans, beets, broccoli, cabbage, carrots, cauliflower, chard, cucumbers, edamame, eggplant, fennel, lots of different herbs, kale, leeks, lettuce, melons, onions, peas, peppers, radishes, rutabaga, scallions, spinach, summer squash, tomatoes, winter squash, zucchini, and a ton of different leafy greens!
We focus on providing a mix of heirloom and hybrid crops grown for great flavor throughout the season, and buy our organic seed from local and regional seed companies. Let us know if you have special requests, and we might be able to grow it!

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