Farm owner, Susan Hillary and greenhouse/market manager Merry McLoryd have been friends since their days together as “Art Monitors” in middle school. Their friendship permeates the atmosphere at Goshen Green Farm. Their mutual love of art, nature and the desire to provide people with clean, healthy food and products you can trust while fostering a creative space for themselves and community, drives the work they do.
Susan Hillary
Merry McLoryd
What we do at the Farm
We are Artists that grow and sell medicinal herbs, vegetables, natural dye flowers, make art, host art shows, musical events, farm dinners, workshops and private parties!
There are no pesticides, chemical fertilizers or additives used at any point in our processing. The products we create are all made on site, by us, in small batches from the plants we grow here from seed. All while providing a place for people to gather, learn, recharge, eat, and make Art!
Our farm made tinctures, culinary products, medicinal teas, skin care products and artisan gifts are available online 24/7 or in person at our Market, open weekends and by appointment.
We have a seasonal food truck for weekend farm-to-truck brunches at our market, and a variety of programs on the farm for both adults and kids.
Art shows, Farm to Table dinners, live performances, bonfires and workshops!
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Our Practices
Sustainable Farming
Through regenerative practices our goal is to build and sustain healthy soil biology, thereby creating more resilient plants and more nutritious crops.
We compost our waste, reuse, recycle and repurpose it into fertilizer. Our no till, permanent beds and permanent walkways allow for soil life to flourish un-disturbed. Worms and mycelium thrive, making nutrients more bio available to plants.
Crop rotation and cover cropping replenish and protect the soil. Companion planting with flowers and different plant varieties encourage pollinators and reduces pest pressure.
Harvested by Hand
We are truly connected to the life cycle and origin of the food we produce at Goshen Green Farm. Saving our seeds at season’s end, using them in the dead of winter to start our seedlings. Tending, nourishing and protecting them till spring planting.
In the field we then watch over them as they grow, flower and produce their fruit. Each step by hand. Each step connected to the last. The beauty and magic of that small seed and the bounty it brings forth is a constant wonder as we work.
Education
We believe that understanding where food comes from, being in the field and experiencing food literally picked from the plant and handed to you to eat, can have a profound effect. It’s something that reading, or watching a film cannot convey.
The way we “farm” and the things we share here at Goshen Green Farm have the power to change lives. One guest at a time, one CSA basket, one conversation at a time, we are doing our part.
About the Property
The Barn, with it’s copper roof and chestnut wood structure, and many of the buildings still in use, are from an 1860’s farmstead. This includes the building housing the Market and the original glass greenhouse with all its internal structure. There are 130 acres with woodlands, wetlands and fields both in use and fallow.
Goshen Green is a farm and market focused on building community through food, art, and education.
