Gift Yourself a Summer Full of Fresh Healthy Vegetables Many of us know we should eat more vegetables … we want to eat more vegetables … we even resolve to do it each year! A CSA Share turns that ambition into a concrete action plan. When you sign yourself up for a CSA Share, […]
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Meet the Team: Janet
Janet MacDonald joined the Stout Oak Farm team in spring of 2022. You’ll meet Janet in the Farm Store, and she’s often washing and packing veggies, too! Janet first caught the gardening bug helping her mother in their home gardens as a young child. Over the years she has had a variety of home […]
What Our CSA Members Say
Every year we survey our CSA Members with the goal of improving the CSA experience for all of our members. Here’s what they had to say about being a member of Stout Oak Farm’s CSA- What were the highlights of your CSA Share in 2022? Lots of members told us about their favorite veggies from […]
Photos from our 2022 Vegetable CSA Shares
These photos from our 2022 Vegetable Shares will give you a good idea of the foods we grow with human-scale methods on our 5-acre organic farm, and the vegetables you’re likely to see in 2023 Vegetable Shares. The photos are also just lovely to look at in winter – showcasing beautiful food at the peak […]
Thanksgiving Bakery Boxes
Thanksgiving Bakery Boxes from 45 Market Street Bakery Our friends at 45 Market Street Bakery who have been making the delicious cookies, scones, coffee cakes, and other treats are offering a Thanksgiving Bakery Box for pre-order. The Box includes: 1 Pie, 1 Coffee Cake, 1 Dozen dinner rolls, and a pint of Cranberry sauce. All […]
Meet the Team: J
J is a lifelong lover of plants and the magic that happens when people cultivate relationships to land. This love for plants and gardening led J to study permaculture and herbalism, seeking learning opportunities throughout New England and California. J’s experience is based in cultivating biointensive no till gardens for both production and education, specializing […]
Meet the Team: Sara Zoe
Sara Zoe joined the Stout Oak Farm Crew in the fall of 2020, after 18 years of being a school librarian. She has a long interest and history working in local food and supporting farmers. Before helping to found Seacoast Eat Local (along with Kate and Jeff) in 2006, she farmed at diverse farms in […]
Images from 2021: a Sherri appreciation post
In early spring of 2021, we had the astounding good fortune to have Sherri Nixon join our volunteer crew as our resident photographer. Several times a week, every week, all season long, Sherri photographed our work. She took care to curate, crop, to ask us what we needed for photos (aiding us in the never […]
Tomato Tasting 2021
We love tomatoes! We love growing them, eating them, and we love talking about growing them and eating them. We are passionate about flavor, quality, and growing Organically. Each year, we grow both tried and true varieties and many many many trials of varieties we are considering. We grow smaller numbers of each trial variety, and […]
Meet the team: Jeff
Jeff grew up in East Kingston, and after serving briefly in the Army, getting his degree from UNH, and teaching for a year in France, he landed back in New Hampshire. His interest in farming started with an interest in eating ethical and healthful food and led him to meeting his future wife at the Exeter […]