We are Matt and Alex, and we started Forest Fed Farmstead in 2021 to feed ourselves and our community healthy locally, locally-produced food. On our little 2-acre space, we have several garden beds to rotate our crops, a small orchard planted in 2021, and a fifty-foot-long high tunnel. We believe in working with nature and not against it at Forest Fed Farmstead, so we don’t use chemical pesticides or herbicides on our farm. We utilize plastic tarps and chickens to kill off grass and weeds in our new and existing garden plots between plantings, eliminating the need to use chemicals or rototill. To keep healthy soil, we plant cover crops in beds not currently in production.
We grow an assortment of seasonal vegetables, including, but not limited to, tomatoes, sweet peppers, hot peppers, lettuce and baby greens, various root crops, and garlic. In late spring/early summer, we also have strawberries available.
We raise chickens for eggs that are rotated around the farm throughout the year, and they always have fresh grass and bugs to enjoy. We also adopted two pygmy goats this year with the hopes of being able to breed them for fresh milk, and we have three pigs that we are raising for ourselves and our family members. We hope to raise more pigs next year to sell. We look forward to sharing our bounty again this season at the Candia Farmers Market. We hope you’ll stick with us while we grow our little farm.