We’d love to have you join us for a season of great eating! The greenhouse is filling up with tender seedlings including juicy tomatoes, bright flowers, tangy onions, multi-colored peppers, purple scallions and more. We’re still accepting members for the 2009 season, so sign up today and please tell a friend.
Mimi and Nathan Andrew Winters talk about the value of connecting people to the places where their food comes from. Follow Nathan on his trip across the country by bicycle to raise awareness about land and nature conservation.
Announcing New Montpelier CSA Pick-Up Site
For 2009, our Montpelier pick up site will be at VT College at the top of East State Street on Thursdays, 4-6PM. We have enjoyed our former site at Two Rivers, and thank them for their generous hosting, however the construction taking place in that area this year will mean lots of traffic. We want you to spend more time at home with your veggies, and less in transit!
Song: "Yellow Watermelon" written and performed by Marianne
Donahue Perchlik, Wellspring CSA member. Click here to
play the song.
Opening Day at the Farm 2009
About Wellspring Farm!
Since 2003, we have been growing five acres of high quality organic vegetables
and flowers on our beautiful farm on the banks of the Winooski River in
Marshfield, Vermont. The majority of our produce is sold via community
supported agriculture, or CSA. Our enthusiastic CSA members pick
up their produce weekly at the farm or in Montpelier from
late June to early October. Both small and large shares include an
abundance of fresh, organic, seasonal vegetables and fruit direct from our
fields. Shares
include pick-your-own crops like peas, beans, cherry tomatoes and flowers
for a hands-on experience. Come on by the farm! (See our map and directions
to the farm on the Contact
Us page.) Notice the changes in the season, cut flowers in the garden
with a friend, munch on cherry tomatoes right off the plants. Wellspring
CSA is perfect for families, city folks seeking a country break, nature
freaks and children of all ages. We are now over 130 member families strong
and growing! Wellspring Farm is managed by farmer Mimi
Arnstein, with a vital staff of apprentices, unsuspecting volunteers
and suspecting ones like Mimi’s husband, Parker Nichols. Wellspring
Farm is conveniently located on Route 2 in Marshfield, 13 miles from Montpelier,
along the beautiful Winooski River.
Directions
Directions to the farm: From the west -- Take Route
2 east past the town of Plainfield. Turn right onto Patty's Crossing immediately
after signs for Meadowcrest Campground (approx. 4 miles beyond Plainfield
village). Go over bridge. Turn right to Lafiria Place. The farm is at the
dead end. From the east -- Take Route 2 west past Marshfield village. Turn
left onto Patty's Crossing (approx. 3 miles from Marshfield village). Go
over bridge. Turn right to Lafiria Place. The farm is at the dead end.
Directions to Montpelier CSA Pickup location:Thursdays, 4-6PM. Located at Vermont College, behind Alumni Hall at the top of East State Street.
Farm History
Wellspring Farm has been farmed organically
on and off since the late 1980s. It was the home of one of Vermont's very
first community supported agriculture (CSA) farms, started by Farmer Les
Snow. Prior to that, cows roamed our pasture and
were milked in our historic barn. There has been one famous resident
at the farm (well, so far): Luvia Lefferrier. Luvia was a woman with
clairvoyant visions. Folks throughout central Vermont tell us stories
of getting their fortune told or finding a lost pet with the help of
Luvia. Apparently even the police came to Luvia
for assistance! She claimed to get her powers from a spring on the farm;
hence our chosen moniker, Wellspring Farm. The land here is rich indeed!
Today, the farm is home to Wellspring CSA. Wellspring
Farm CSA is farmed by Mimi Arnstein.
Wellspring Farm CSA
Statement of Integrity
Wellspring Farm CSA is a small scale farm business that produces the
highest quality produce for our community. We provide healthy, fresh
food, strengthen community, and educate about farm sustainability issues.
We teach our apprentices all aspects of small scale farming in order
to create farmers of the future. We create a fine quality of farm life
that provides for our economic, social and emotional well being.
To meet these objectives we:
. Practice ecological responsibility for all living things
. Provide a safe workplace that is financially stable
. Pursue a livelihood in which physical and mental demands are
challenging yet enjoyable, and are balanced with rest and reflection
. Develop a pathway where supporters interact and build upon our sense
of community
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