Brookford Farm

Butterfly Bakery of Vermont & Fat Toad Farm

"Butterfly Bakery gives us a market we don’t have to invent or manage every single day. If I get a flat tire, I’m not missing my one chance to sell that week. Our days are more predictable and our mission is clearer. We can focus on growing 15 crops really well instead of juggling 30 just to stay competitive at the farmers’ market. I can focus on farming instead of marketing."

- Geoff Kleis of Familia Farm

Brookford Farm

For 14 years, Catarina and Luke Mahoney have been learning and practicing organic and biodynamic farming on a variety of farms in Russia, Germany and the United States. Catarina and Luke met at one of these farms near St. Petersburg, Russia in the fall of 1999 where they lived for five years. At this 240-acre diversified, biodynamic farm, they were exposed to many different aspects of agriculture and sustainable living.

Today the couple owns and operates Brookford Farm in Canterbury, New Hampshire, where an important part of its mission is to reclaim and return the land and soils to optimum fertility. Through the use of organic methods, including a mixture of animal and green manures, crop rotation, and good ol’ observation, they hope to continue to discover and nurture the best uses of the land.

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