A 2025 Season Update: Meet Your New Farmers

Howdy,

We are grateful to have the opportunity to be continuing Farmer Tom’s legacy of working with the land at Hope’s Edge Farm. We are Carmen and Philip, two people passionate about regenerative agriculture and building a more resilient and sustainable food system. We are relocating from Southern Vermont where we ran an organic vegetable farm for the past four years. Our farm, though successful and bountiful, was scattered across different locations, anywhere we could find a few acres to lease. With the intention of farming in one spot and building a true relationship with the soil, we came across Hope’s Edge Farm.

Philip studied sustainable agriculture with a focus in permaculture at Green Mountain College, and ecological design at Ecosa. He has been working on organic veggie farms for over 11 years. Carmen grew up with an understanding of herbalism and the magic of plants and developed this in the past 3 years to create a small business selling herbal products. Her art can also be found at local stores and art markets. Bubba, our energetic Blue Heeler, mostly spends his time attempting to herd summer squash when not eating sugar snap peas off of the vine.

Our intention is to be stewards of Hope’s Edge Farm and the surrounding community, providing nutrient dense, regeneratively grown organic food. We believe that food is medicine, and it begins with our relationship to the soil. Our practices will include cover cropping, integrative pest management, never spraying synthetic herbicides or pesticides, and implementing a low to no till system. We plan to offer a 20 week CSA, attend Farmers Markets, and offer wholesale.

Our favorite veggies to grow are radicchio, ginger, turmeric and garlic, but you will also find all of your favorites in our CSA share or at the market. This year we will also be growing plants for our herbal products and teas, and will have decorative flowers bouquets available at the pick-up shed. We have attached a CSA flier if you are interested in eating our veggies this summer.

We are looking forward to feeding you and being a part of the community!

Hope to meet you this summer,
Carmen, Philip, and Bubba

A 2023 Update from Jason & Rachel

To our 2022 CSA Members – 

We will echo Tom’s sentiments as we thank you for your support with our great experiment last season! We took a big step in agreeing to manage the Farm in Tom’s absence and are both glad that we did. We loved getting to know each of you who visited the Farm and farm stand regularly. We learned more than we had expected, not only about farming and running a business, but also about ourselves

After much conversation, we’ve decided to return to our familiar roles as volunteers at Hope’s Edge. We’re looking forward to being able to give our home gardens and families a bit more attention and may even set up a multi-family farm stand with our home-grown produce. Wherever our paths lead, we both still intend to remain connected to the Hope’s Edge community. Perhaps you’ll join us on this year’s volunteer crew!

While this marks the end of the Hope’s Edge Farm CSA and farm stand, our neighbors at Hope Orchards are hosting a growing CSA and farm stand as well. Kyle and Anna are entering their 3rd year of running K&A CSA and are like-minded in their intentions to build soil and community resilience through farming. If you’re interested in joining another CSA, we hope you’ll get in touch with them.

Happy Spring! We are grateful to know you.

Rachel & Jason