After being an active CSA and FSC member for more than a decade, Sheryl Rome has officially joined the team at Stout Oak Farm Sheryl was born in New York and grew up in the tristate area. She studied Fashion Merchandising at F.I.T. in New York City, and began her career over thirty years ago …
Kate gave the farm crew a thorough hand tool clinic. We focus on ergonomics and expended energy because we do all of our cultivating and harvesting by hand. This ensures high quality food and is also very tiring, so we’re always looking for new and better hand tools to help with those weeds. We learned …
Mekala first caught the farming bug 10 years ago while apprenticing on an organic vegetable operation in the Berkshires. Since then, she has worked on several farms throughout Maine, MA, and NH. 2023 will be her fourth season at Stout Oak Farm! She’s the Field Manager and in that role you’ll see her heading up …
Now that things are growing in the greenhouse, it feels like the farm is ramping up fast. While the seedlings grow, we’re also trying to squeeze in a few more team meetings to make sure our new team members get trained up and check in with each other as we work on projects. One …
Amber is our amazing Wash and Pack House Manager. She keeps everything running smoothly from harvest all the way until the vegetables are ready to reach you. Amber’s keen eye for cleanliness ensures that our vegetables are top quality post-harvest and will last as long as possible in your fridge. We don’t know how we’d …
Kate has been farming for 20 years, and was first was drawn to farming as a career while working on urban agriculture projects in New York City after college. She trained at the Farm and Garden apprenticeship program at the University of California at Santa Cruz and then worked on farms in California and Massachusetts …
Mekala and Sara Zoë finished putting together the Terrateck Finger Weeder and took it for a test drive in the Little House, where we don’t have anything growing in the ground right now. Right away we like some things – the forward movement is very smooth and doesn’t take a lot of effort. The rubber …
It’s been a slow start this spring, due to the cool, damp, dark weather pattern – but things have started to shift, and our crops are really growing now! Here’s a quick photo update from the field (and greenhouses)!
We are gearing up and getting excited to get started in the greenhouse in the next week or two! Microgreens will be one of the first batches of seeds to be sown and are typically one of the first greens we have available each spring. In case you aren’t familiar with them or haven’t taken …
Join us as we look back at the year in pictures! As we begin another growing season on the farm, we pause to reflect on all that transpired in 2018 — from significant moments to daily routines. Henry the puppy clearly loves farm life! Big and little. Amber sowing trays of onions …