Wells Hill Farm strives to model sustainability and the best organic growing practices for small family farms and suburban home gardens. We showcase growing options for those interested in creating home gardens and keeping chickens. Companion herbs and flowers are integrated throughout our production gardens and high tunnel.
WHF grows produce intensively on one-third of 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.
WHF’s ten Merino-Finn sheep provide wool fiber and our two Maremma livestock guardian dogs keep all the animals safe from predation. 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 to restaurants in Fairfield County and New York City, runs a small CSA, and holds farming classes, fundraisers, and special events for the Fairfield County community.
WHF grows produce intensively on one-third of 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.
WHF’s ten Merino-Finn sheep provide wool fiber and our two Maremma livestock guardian dogs keep all the animals safe from predation. 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 to restaurants in Fairfield County and New York City, runs a small CSA, and holds farming classes, fundraisers, and special events for the Fairfield County community.
Our mission
Our mission is to provide an experience that educates our community about the value and importance of local farms that provide nutritionally-dense food grown without toxic herbicides and pesticides, that practice humane and ethical animal husbandry, and that serve as temporary stewards of their land and water sources, emphasizing biodiversity, sustainability and soil and water protection and for future generations.
We serve humbly as a non-profit farm working to create awareness about the benefits of a diet free of unprocessed foods and GMOs, while focusing on the injustice of food inequality in our nearby 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 human nutrition, humane treatment of animals and a greener planet. |
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 carcinogenic Chlorpyrifos, Glyphosate (Round Up), 2,4-D use, to name a few, 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 to bolster developing immune systems.
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