Windflower Farm is a small family farm located
in Taconic Hill country, between the Hudson River and the
Vermont border. This year marks Ted and Jan Blomgren's ninth
season of growing organic vegetables and cut flowers for shareholders
in New York City.
Ted brings to Windflower Farm his training in horticulture
and experience as an educator. Formerly an advisor to Cornell
Corporation Extension, he's now a full-time farmer.
Jan brings to the farm experience as an illustrator
and training in botany. As the lucky recipients of the flower
shares can attest, Jan is a superior floral designer.
Ted and Jan's sons contribute boundless energy,
a sense of wonder, and their own farm enterprise—a flock
of free-range chickens that lay brown eggs.
Their philosophy
"Community supported agriculture (CSA) is
a collaboration between farmers and the people who eat the
food they grow. As Wendell Berry puts it, 'Eating is an agricultural
act.' CSA is a means by which people may establish a stronger
relationship with the sources of their food.
As farmers, we make a commitment to you to be good
stewards of the land we grow your food on and to grow a wide
variety of high-quality vegetables in suitable quantities
for you and the people with whom you share your table. And
you, the folks who eat our food, make a commitment to us and
the ecological practices we use by purchasing a share in our
harvest, by sharing in some of the risks (and potential bounty)
associated with growing crops in the Northeast, and by paying
in advance of the season for your produce.
We believe that the principles of sustainable agriculture
apply to every kind of farming, from the growing of the fresh
vegetables and fruits that make their way to your dinner plates,
to the production of the fresh-cut flowers that adorn your
tables. As organic growers, we use no pesticides or synthetic
fertilizers of any kind. To enrich our soils, we use cover
crops, crop rotations, and compost. We are committed to careful
land stewardship, ecological pest management, and a healthy
environment for the people who work with us. In this way,
we hope to leave our farm in good condition for future generations."
Ted and Jan Blomgren
Windflower Farm
585 Meeting House Road
Valley Falls, NY 12185
(518) 692-3188
windflowerfarm at earthlink dot net
