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Sustainable Agriculture

Our efforts in permaculture, regenerative farming, and native species restoration.

What Regenerative Farming Taught Jason DeSalvo About Food, Health and Grains

What Regenerative Farming Taught Jason DeSalvo About Food, Health and Grains

We Once Were the Breadbasket of America

We Once Were the Breadbasket of America

(Originally appeared in The Tewksbury Times February, 2025) One of the things that makes Tewksbury special is its wide-open spaces – our zoning rules, preserved land […]
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Fostering Sustainable Futures Through Small-Scale Farming 9/24

Fostering Sustainable Futures Through Small-Scale Farming A “fireside chat” with Mary Berry, Executive Director of The Berry Center and Daughter of Wendell Berry at Ethos Farm […]
Cold Brook Farm – Thoughts on Our Second Season Regeneratively Farming

Regenerative Agriculture at Cold Brook Farm

“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times” couldn’t be more descriptive for the 2022 growing season here at Cold Brook Farm.  In the end we got 95%+ of our new...
New Year's Day at Cold Brook Farm, NJ

The First Bird of 2023 or Oh, Canada!

by Deb Desalvo The sunrise this morning was spectacular! The sky was clear, which was most welcome after yesterday’s thick and dramatic fog. There were pink and orange clouds scattered across the azure sky, as...
Cold Brook Farm — Our First Grain Harvest | Oldwick, NJ

Cold Brook Farm—Our First Grain Harvest

By Jason DeSalvo, September 2, 2021 Over the course of two days in July 2021, Cold Brook Farm saw its first “non-conventional” agricultural harvest for as long as anyone in the community could remember, likely...