Specialties
Our business specializes in healthy eating, community, home gardening, education, and delicious, fresh grown produce all year long. Have you tried our greens in the winter? We have the EGGZ food truck on site all winter as well! Every FRI, SAT, and SUN from 8-1pm. They serve up some seriously delicious eats using our vegetables!
History
Established in 1999.
Located in Bethel, CT, Holbrook farm is a mere 12 acres, with only 4 acres in true production. With limitations to land size, the Holbrook family learned how to farm intensively while also being ecologically responsible.
While not certified organic, we don't spray with pesticides or herbicides, we try to use beneficial insects and companion plants and we feel like weeds have a place in the ecological mix as long as they are controlled. The use of compost and natural leaf mulch aid in fertilization and weed suppression. The success of the farm rely's almost entirely on soil health. After spending decades building the soil to its current state, there is more than enough nutrients for crops to flourish.
What you put into the environment and what you take out matters. We farm without use of plastic mulches and we reuse plastic and other goods as much as we can to reduce the amount on the farm and the environment. We want to leave the land in better condition than we found it.
Meet the Business Owner: Jessica W.
Jess has been farming with the Holbrook family since 2012. After graduating Skidmore College with a degree in Anthropology and East Asian Studies, she started her career at a small marketing agency. While short lived, her one year office job led her to pursue a different career path. One that didn't involve sitting in an office all day. With no farming or gardening experience, Jess began by volunteering at her local farm in Wilton, CT. It wasn't long until she found her way to Holbrook Farm where she started out as a novice volunteer. With a natural curiosity and tenacity, she quickly became an apprentice under John Holbrook, who at the time had no idea what he was in for. Farming was a natural fit. She made her way from volunteer, to manager, to now sole operator in just a few short years. As a young woman, Jess has the passion and desire to continue to grow Holbrook Farm and foster its important relationship to the community.