Healing Conversations With the DeSalvos | Cold Brook Farm | Plant-based Lifestyle

Healing Conversation With the DeSalvos

An interview about living a Whole Food Plant-Based lifestyle and the resulting numerous positive changes to one’s health.
VeganLinked Interview: Cold Brook Farm: From Farm to Kitchen Tour with Jason DeSalvo

Kitchen Tour of a Net-Zero Home

A video tour of Cold Brook Farm, inside and out, including a farm and kitchen tour of this New Jersey homestead.
VeganLinked Interview: "Performing Better Than 20 Years Ago" with Jason DeSalvo about the benefits of a plant-based diet

Whole Food Plant-Based Diet

Jason DeSalvo talks to VeganLinked about the benefits to human and planetary health of eating a whole food plant-based diet.
Cooking New Jersey visits Cold Brook Farm, Oldwick, NJ

Cooking New Jersey visits Cold Brook Farm

“Cooking New Jersey” visited the DeSalvos at their homestead, Cold Brook Farm, in Oldwick, NJ, to discuss organic and regenerative farming.
Cold Brook Farm: A Year to Remember

Cold Brook Farm: A Year to Remember

This is the final installment in the blog from our architect’s website that shared the vision, architectural challenges, and construction effort involved in building our environmentally responsible farmhouse.  We have re-posted it here for your...
AIA Case Study: Cold Brook Farm — Net Zero Home in New Jersey

AIA Case Study: Cold Brook Farm — Net Zero Home in New Jersey

Cold Brook Farm was recently featured in the American Institute of Architects CE Course on Sustainability. Part of the Sustainability in Architectural Design series, the case study, Cold Brook Farm — Net Zero in New...
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...
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Cold Brook Farm Featured in New Jersey Monthly Magazine

Deborah and Jason DeSalvo, owners of Cold Brook Farm, were recently featured in the September 2022 edition of New Jersey Monthly Magazine.  In the article, Passion Project, they speak with Lauren Payne about their multiyear...
Cold Brook Farm Featured in Polycor "Blog: From the Bedrock"

Cold Brook Farm Featured in Polycor Blog: From the Bedrock

Cold Brook Farm was featured in the latest blog, A Sustainable Modern Homestead Takes Shape with Alberene Soapstone, from leading natural stone quarriers, Polycor. The choice of Polycor’s Alberene Soapstone™ was just one of many...
Cold Brook Farm | pollinator habitats

Cold Brook Farm Chosen as a Pollinator Habitat Restoration Project Site

This past June, the New Jersey Audubon Stewardship Department received ten Xerces Society pollinator kit grants for installation at several pollinator habitat restoration project sites across New Jersey. Cold Brook Farm is pleased to be...
Solar Panels at Cold Brook Farm | Oldwick, NJ

Cold Brook Farm Receives Distinctions for Energy Efficiency

Cold Brook Farm was designed from the start to be an extremely energy-efficient, environmentally sensitive, healthy home while also looking like a “traditional,” modern farmhouse. The house has been awarded numerous distinctions for energy efficiency...