homegrown
Foxtrot Herb Farm is a six-acre certified organic farm in Ashfield, MA that specializes in growing vibrant, high-quality plants. We sell bulk fresh & dried organic herbs and specialty produce to apothecaries, restaurants, and makers. Our Healing Foods CSA makes climate-resilient, high-nutrient foods available to Western Mass and Southern Vermont. And our PYO program gets people on the farm to harvest their own herbs!
Growing for resilience
We approach the land that we grow on with a spirit of reciprocity and respect. We grow in a manner that is ecologically beneficial, on a human scale, and in connection with the natural world. See below for how we integrate this work into social contexts.
We’re obsessed with the following questions:
how do we grow plants without fossil fuels?
how do we grow in ways that capture carbon– not release it?
what and how can we grow so that we can feed our community in an increasingly unstable climate?
Photograph by Stephanie Craig
Growing in social contexts
We infuse into everything that we grow an intention to nurture the seeds of social and environmental justice, resilience, radical kindness, and magic. As white European-descended people living on Turtle Island, we provide a 15% BIPOC Reparations “Discount” for folks who are Black, Indigenous, and People of Color. It’s actually the least we can do, and just one way that we are working to support reparations. We also offer a 5% Farmer2Farmer Discount for other small-scale farmers; run a by-donation Herbs for Activists program to provide plants to people on the front lines of social and environmental justice; and make sliding scale pricing available to non-profits and individuals.
Photo by Cara Brostrom
Oh, where’d we get our name?
“[...]As soon as the generals and the politicos
can predict the motions of your mind,
lose it. Leave it as a sign
to mark the false trail, the way
you didn’t go. Be like the fox
who makes more tracks than necessary,
some in the wrong direction.
Practice resurrection.”