Wells Hill Farm strives to model sustainability and the best organic growing practices for small family farms. We showcase growing options for those interested in creating home gardens. Companion herbs and flowers are interplanted throughout our production gardens. We make choices with our pollinators and beneficial insects in mind!
The farm grows produce intensively on half an acre and the remaining thirteen acres of pastures and woodlands are used for rotating two mobile chicken coops, one sheep house, and a rabbit hutch—all of which fertilize our pasture, add to our extensive compost area, control pests and keep weeding around the property to a minimum. All inputs are considered carefully and most of the farm’s garden structures and architectural elements are built from downed trees and rocks found on the property.
The farm’s ten Merino-Finn sheep provide wool fiber, manure and grazing services, and our two Maremma livestock guardian dogs keep all the animals safe from predation. It would be impossible to keep free-range chickens without them given the amazing wildlife biodiversity we have in Weston. All the farming is done by hand and is no-till. Additionally, we grow through all four seasons in a 125-foot-high tunnel. Wells Hill Farm sells occasionally to restaurants in Fairfield County and New York City, runs a CSA with shares that have been donated to raise funds for various non-profits, and holds farming classes, fundraisers, and special events for the community.
The farm grows produce intensively on half an acre and the remaining thirteen acres of pastures and woodlands are used for rotating two mobile chicken coops, one sheep house, and a rabbit hutch—all of which fertilize our pasture, add to our extensive compost area, control pests and keep weeding around the property to a minimum. All inputs are considered carefully and most of the farm’s garden structures and architectural elements are built from downed trees and rocks found on the property.
The farm’s ten Merino-Finn sheep provide wool fiber, manure and grazing services, and our two Maremma livestock guardian dogs keep all the animals safe from predation. It would be impossible to keep free-range chickens without them given the amazing wildlife biodiversity we have in Weston. All the farming is done by hand and is no-till. Additionally, we grow through all four seasons in a 125-foot-high tunnel. Wells Hill Farm sells occasionally to restaurants in Fairfield County and New York City, runs a CSA with shares that have been donated to raise funds for various non-profits, and holds farming classes, fundraisers, and special events for the community.
Our mission
Our mission is to provide an experience that educates our community about the importance of supporting local farms that provide nutritionally-dense food grown without toxic herbicides and pesticides, practice humane and ethical animal husbandry, and organic land stewardship. Practices which emphasize sustainability, biodiversity, and pollinator, soil and water protection.
We serve as a non-profit farm working to create awareness about the benefits of healthful eating and the injustice of food inequality in our neighboring communities. We focus on issues surrounding food waste, unsustainable conventional agriculture and GMO dangers—in essence—the broken food system in the United States that emphasizes empty calories and corporate profits over nutrition. |
Why do we do it?The increase in early-childhood diseases, cancers, allergies and Autism spectrum disorders have a direct correlation to children’s exposure to toxic pesticides such as probable-carcinogenic Glyphosate (Round Up) and organophosphorus pesticides (Chlorpyrifos and Methyl Parathion), as well as environmental exposure to chemicals and pollution levels that little bodies were not designed to combat. A diet that focuses on organic and unprocessed produce and meats and eggs from grass-fed, pasture-raised animals have been proven scientifically to bolster developing immune systems.
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