The Farm

We are committed to serving fellow humanity and our shared planet.

Following organic, regenerative, and permaculture practices, we cultivate fertility with resources provided by the land and animals such that the process never ends. Compost made from cleaning the barnyard and byproducts of the farm is fantastically fertile. Thinning the sugarbush of competing maple trees provides ideal substrate for cultivating shiitake mushrooms; after two or three years of mushroom production the logs are cut to firewood and used in maple syrup production. Their ashes replace potassium to the compost pile. And so it goes.

The land is currently transitioning from a history of row-crop farming and cattle-grazing from the early 1900s, to laying fallow since last lumbered in 1999, to now a fledgling permaculture farm including rotational grazed sylvan pasture supporting a French Alpine goat and Jersey dairy herd.

Forthcoming, J2 Farm will be offering fresh cut flowers, herbs, and herdshares - literal ownership of our dairy and meat herds - entitling owners a share of the animals’ produce. Farm experiences, classes in art, permaculture, and environmental stewardship, and residencies in art and agriculture are planned when gathering together is once again safe for the community.

Thanks to Jesse Speelman for the wonderful photographs of the farm.