Field Stone Farm
Field Stone Farm is located on 42 beautiful acres between Northfield and Roxbury, Vermont. The farm had been family-owned since 1990, and Ian and Chandra Blackmer started producing vegetable and fruit crops for a small CSA in 2009.
In 2015 daughter Hannah Blackmer returned to Vermont to lend a hand in supporting the growing business, and after a few years of family transitions Hannah took on managing the farm’s production. After thirteen years in business, Chandra was ready to retire in 2022 and Hannah’s partner Tyler Renaud offered to take up the helm.
Today, Field Stone Farm strives to utilize practices that increase soil health and microbial activity, in turn increasing the vigor, vitality, nutrient density, and pest and disease resistance in their crops. They believe that healthy, balanced, living soil is the best and most important tool for providing high quality, nutrient dense food. The is accomplished through carefully following certain practices:
- Minimally disruptive systems for prepping beds and reducing weed pressure, such as broadforking, solarization and organic-material mulches. We never till our soil!
- Compost, naturally-derived fertilizers and mineral soil amendments, and cover crops to improve fertility, organic matter, and soil biological activity.
- Naturally derived foliar feeding and soil drenching for improved strength and immunity at important growth stages (primarily seaweed and fish-based fertilizers, which are high in critical micro-nutrients).
