Welcome to Our Website!
Woodland Ridge Farm is a small farm located near the Wachusett Reservoir in Central Massachusetts. This year we are growing at sites in Holden and Boylston. We grow fresh vegetables, herbs, and flowers using sustainable farming practices. We grow all our own plants and specialize in a wide variety of flowers and floral craft. We are a farming family with a forty -year history of working the soil with twelve years participation in farmers' markets. Our mission is to share our joy of working with plants and their health-giving benefits while offering fresh, top quality products.
Practices and Growing Standards
Our farming practices are sustainable and are based on our respect of the earth. One of our goals is to build healthy nutrient-rich soil. We strive to be good stewards and regularly add compost, mulch and worms. We do NOT use chemical pesticides or herbicides. We interplant, rotate crops, attract birds, use bait crops, row covers and are not afraid to hand pick unwanted visitors. We use raised beds and self-watering containers with enriched growing medium. Our bees enjoy working many of the plants that we grow. We are expanding our hydroponics system this year and in addition to lettuce are trialing other types of produce.
Special Interests
One of our special interests is bringing the enjoyment and health benefits of gardening to everyone - especially the physically challenged. "Madison's Tips" above will give you more information on removing barriers and offer new ideas each week on current gardening topics.
We appreciate our Westminster Farmers' Market customers and our CSA share holders for their support. We enjoy striving to grow the freshest, most nutritious produce and herbs for you that we can using natural sustainable methods. Our flowers are also grown using the same methods to bring you increased color, fragrance, and a bouquet that you can trust to be safe to smell and put on the table near your food.
The growing season ended late last year. We were still picking beans, spinach, lettuce, broccoli, kale, herbs, Swiss chard, leeks, tomatillos, husk cherries, peppers, flowers, and more at the end of October.
Westminster Farmers' Markets finished the last Friday in October. Thanks to all those who came out to enjoy the bounty of locally grown slow food before the snow flew!
Woodland Ridge Farm is a small farm located near the Wachusett Reservoir in Central Massachusetts. This year we are growing at sites in Holden and Boylston. We grow fresh vegetables, herbs, and flowers using sustainable farming practices. We grow all our own plants and specialize in a wide variety of flowers and floral craft. We are a farming family with a forty -year history of working the soil with twelve years participation in farmers' markets. Our mission is to share our joy of working with plants and their health-giving benefits while offering fresh, top quality products.
Practices and Growing Standards
Our farming practices are sustainable and are based on our respect of the earth. One of our goals is to build healthy nutrient-rich soil. We strive to be good stewards and regularly add compost, mulch and worms. We do NOT use chemical pesticides or herbicides. We interplant, rotate crops, attract birds, use bait crops, row covers and are not afraid to hand pick unwanted visitors. We use raised beds and self-watering containers with enriched growing medium. Our bees enjoy working many of the plants that we grow. We are expanding our hydroponics system this year and in addition to lettuce are trialing other types of produce.
Special Interests
One of our special interests is bringing the enjoyment and health benefits of gardening to everyone - especially the physically challenged. "Madison's Tips" above will give you more information on removing barriers and offer new ideas each week on current gardening topics.
We appreciate our Westminster Farmers' Market customers and our CSA share holders for their support. We enjoy striving to grow the freshest, most nutritious produce and herbs for you that we can using natural sustainable methods. Our flowers are also grown using the same methods to bring you increased color, fragrance, and a bouquet that you can trust to be safe to smell and put on the table near your food.
The growing season ended late last year. We were still picking beans, spinach, lettuce, broccoli, kale, herbs, Swiss chard, leeks, tomatillos, husk cherries, peppers, flowers, and more at the end of October.
Westminster Farmers' Markets finished the last Friday in October. Thanks to all those who came out to enjoy the bounty of locally grown slow food before the snow flew!
