Roxbury Farm
Roxbury Farm is a community supported farm. We grow vegetables, herbs, and grass fed pork, lamb, and beef for over 1000 shareholders representing over 1200 families in four communities--Columbia County, the Capital Region, Westchester County and Manhattan--on 300 acres in Kinderhook, New York.
Our farmland has been taken off the market, permanently. It can never be bought or sold again. It can only be leased, and only by a farmer who commits to farming it. The lease is lifelong and inheritable, and the fee is based on the agricultural value of the land, not the market value. Affordable housing for the farmer and farm employees is also protected in perpetuity. Even in the rapidly rising country home market two and a half hours from New York City, this land and housing will always be available and affordable to a farmer.
Roxbury Farm is a biodynamic farm. A biodynamic farmer allows a great diversity of living organism on his or her farm to thrive as those systems have proven to be most efficient in harboring life and storing energy. Every aspect of the farm makes its own unique contribution to the whole. When a farm is biodynamic it is transformed from a factory, producing food and generating profit, to a being that has its own characteristics with associated strengths and weaknesses that are honored.
News and blog
Spring Planting
Posted by Jody :: Thursday, May 17 :: 9:41am
We started out with a dry, warm spring which allowed us to get a lot of plants out in the fields. Now after all the recent rain, things are growing fast and are going to be ready earlier than we anticipated. So we've added a bonus delivery week - your first pickup will be the week of June 4! Come to your regular site on your pickup day for some fresh greens to start the season.
Planting head lettuce
warms the soil allowing us to harvest crops earlier than if we planted them on bare ground.
Head Lettuce under row cover on May 17th. It will be ready for the first delivery the week of June 4.