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 […]
Category: farm crew
Around the farm this week
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 […]
Meet the team: Mekala
Mekala first caught the farming bug during her junior year in college while apprenticing on an organic family farm in the Berkshires. Since then, she has worked on several farms throughout Maine, MA, and NH. This is her second year at Stout Oak Farm and she is excited for another year of working alongside strong […]
Around the farm this week
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 […]
Meet the team: Amber
Meet Amber Walker Wilson! When not at Stout Oak farming, Amber’s family of six tend a large scale home garden and raise a flock of 30 laying hens, for their personal use & supplying a small weekly egg/veg delivery service to the Exeter area. “Since I began farming in 2016, as a way to work/live, […]
Meet the Team: Kate
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 […]
Stout Oak Farm on NH Chronicle!
Back in September, NH Chronicle visited the farm to film our crew as part of an episode on women farmers in New Hampshire. The episode aired last week, and we’re excited to share it! Did you know that there are over 3,000 women farmers in New Hampshire — that’s over 42% of all of the […]