Boulder Knoll Community Farm

CSA stands for Community Supported Agriculture, but we also like to think of it as Community Building Agriculture.

• We provide healthy, local vegetables and fruit to 65 shareholders, local soup kitchens, and a New Haven restaurant. We hope you try some new vegetables, meet some new people and learn something new about nurturing food plants.

• Education is a central component and an essential element in the vision of the Friends of Boulder Knoll, the farm’s sponsoring organization. Our goal is to emphasize essential links between people, plants, and the earth, to develop interdisciplinary learning, and to promote environmental responsibility.

• We believe that exposing the community, especially its youth, to the wonders, importance and value of agriculture, conservation, and outdoor recreation is critical to fostering future stewards of the environment.

• We try our best to run the farm in a sustainable manner. We have no outside electricity and do most of the bed preparation, planting, cultivating and some mowing with hand tools. The farm is not certified organic, but we adhere to organic growing standards and have signed the Farmer’s Pledge, a commitment to farming, marketing and farm management in accordance with sound ecological and economic principles. Several of our members are interested in permaculture practices; our farmer has a permaculture design certificate.