Elmwood Farm
Six acres of vegetables, two beds of cut flowers, a creek that floods every March.
About Elmwood Farm.
Elmwood is six acres on the southern slope above Federal Creek. We grow about forty crops over the season — heavy on the alliums and the brassicas, light on the things deer prefer. We have one paid hand, our daughter Lucia, and her wage is split between cash and the right to choose what we plant in the corner field. We do not till. We mulch with leaves the township drops off in November.
Twenty-two weeks of vegetables
First share around the third week of May, last share around the third week of October. We deliver what is best each week, not what you ordered last spring.
Choose your own share, by text
Every Saturday we send you what's in your box. You have until Monday at six to swap any two items for two others. Reply DONATE and we send your share to the food pantry instead.
Pay how you'd like
Full season up front gets you a free flower bouquet every week of August. Monthly installments are welcome and how most of our members pay.
The standard share
- ※7–10 items each week
- ※A weekly newsletter with one recipe
- ※Pick-your-own herbs and cherry tomatoes through August
- ※First right of refusal on next year's share
- The farm, Athens OHTuesday, 3:00 – 7:00pm
- Donkey Coffee, Court St.Wednesday, 8:00am – 12:00pm
- Nelsonville libraryWednesday, 4:00 – 6:30pm
Questions, asked & answered.
Reply PAUSE to your Tuesday text. We pause your share for as many weeks as you tell us, and credit your account for those weeks. Or give it to a neighbor — reply GIFT and a name.
We use OMRI-listed sprays for cabbage moth and squash bug, occasionally. Otherwise no. We are not certified organic — the paperwork is more than we can carry — but we'd be happy to walk you through everything we use.
Please. We have a sandbox, a friendly dog, and tomatoes you may eat off the vine.