Where to Find Us
Farmstand
Our farmstand is where you can find the largest selection of our products. Our farmstand is located at 307 Sugarhouse Rd, in Burke Hollow, Vermont. We are currently closed for the season but starting April 1st, we will be open 9am-7pm everyday!
Other Locations
Future Locations
Growing Practices
Sustainability, resilience, and community are at the center of how we farm. We draw from both traditional practices and modern science in order to grow and raise food in a way that honors and supports the animals, plants, and land on which we work, as well as the people we feed. To this end, we do not use synthetic pesticides or fertilizers, and strive to use as few inputs from off farm as possible. Most of our seeds are organic, although occasionally depending on availability, conventional seeds are used. We feed our chickens certified organic grain, and our animals are on pasture as much of the year as possible. We welcome any inquiries regarding our philosophy. This is your food, and you have the right to know exactly how it gets to your table!
OUR STORY
Our story begins around the turn of the millennium when we were expecting our first child and thinking passionately about how we wanted to nourish him. We planted our first garden, shopped at the co-op, and began working with whole foods: baking our own breads, tortillas, canning jams, and freezing small harvests. After an unexpected move to the coast of Maine, we took advantage of the climate, and began growing a lot of our own food, raising hens, and dreaming about a farm of our own where we might grow enough food to sustain ourselves.
The dream included a farm with an old barn, still standing, and a place to build a tiny net zero home. It also included many vegetable gardens, a farm stand, a mature apple orchard and sugarbush, a pond, a cleared pasture, at least 25 acres, and it had to be in a cool town in Vermont. This list grew over the years, as did our family. As a family of four, we had become very connected to our community in Maine, and suspected that we would not return to our home state until many years later when the kids were grown.
But one night at the kitchen table, in a moment of political frustration, we peeked at the real estate listings, and there was our farm! All of it! Waiting for us! So we jumped ship, all four of us, and said good-bye to our dear friends and the house that had been our home for almost a decade. We bought a used camper and landed, home.
In our first two years back, we built a small energy efficient house, a chicken coop and a sugar shack. We dug a pond, created gardens, grew some vegetables, planted berry bushes and more apple trees, thinned the sugarbush and boiled some sap. With the help of the Vermont State Conservation Grant, we began rehabbing an 1800s barn that is the only remaining structure of the original farm. In our third year, we launched a CSA, opened a farmstand, made and sold maple syrup, erected a hoop house, built a greenhouse and guest space.
We have now been farming this land for five years. The structures have multiplied. The gardens have expanded. The kids have grown.
Our dream evolves. We are doing what we love, in a beautiful place, and designing a means of sharing it all with others. We hope to continue to grow food, nourish our community, host events, and allow the dream to grow for generations.
Reviews
I don’t plan my menu until I see what FFF has to offer for the day. Their fresh produce is the best the season has to offer. They are my go-to farm stand and never disappoint.
- Ann, farmstand customer
I recommend Firefly Farm to people all the time! They have a beautiful, welcoming Farmstand and everything they produce is done with thoughtful consideration and care. It’s a fantastic farm, run by fantastic people. 5 STARS!
- Amber, farmstand customer
We were drawn to your farm first for your farmstand. A few of my friends and neighbors suggested I should check you out, and I did. I was not disappointed. The farmstand was so welcoming and such a calming place to be. So, that initial visit led us to sign up for your CSA product, which we also love.
We keep coming back for many reasons, first being that we are always made to feel welcome. When we arrive to pick up our CSA, Michelle always greets us personally and asks us how we enjoyed the previous weeks basket. My young daughter looks forward to picking up our CSA and chatting with Michelle each week. The welcoming vibe goes beyond the in-person interactions, each week during our CSA, we receive a wonderful email updating us about happenings on the farm, events being hosted, updates on the produce we can expect, and our favorite--an easy to prepare recipe for something included in that weeks basket. I look forward to the newsletter--it's a small but very impactful extra step that FFBH takes to make connections and promote a welcoming relationship.
We love their fresh CSA baskets. We have never been disappointed. We also love the efforts they use to avoid single use containers. We would absolutely recommend FFBH to a friend, family, or even a stranger. FFBH is a wonderful family farm. Not having the ability or space to have our own garden is unfortunate, but being able to share the importance of local and sustainable food sources with our kids is important to us, FFBH allows us to still teach this value to our kids, and their CSA is a perfect example of families helping other families.
- Brooke, CSA member
Beautiful broccoli!! The pesto is out of this world!! I was there on opening day but I'm sure they have a lot more veggies now! I am getting a lot out of my garden now but have to go and check them out again!
- Elaine, farmstand customer
We are so grateful to the folks at Firefly Farm for their community-building efforts. Their Care Share Program, in particular, was one of the supports that enabled us to remain in the Kingdom through the pandemic: when our family's income plummeted and we faced the possibility of having to move in order to afford groceries, we were able instead to count on help from our neighbors until we regained our financial footing. Now, we're able to pay the favor forward and help other neighbors when they're in need.
- Megan, CSA member
Over the last few years we have been very satisfied with our CSA shares from Firefly Farm. Michelle and her family are very friendly and gracious. We are always pleased with our weekly shares and like that they try different veggies that we look forward to trying each year.
- Carol and Jack, CSA members
LAND ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
Firefly Farm at Burke Hollow rests on the land that has been both a site for meeting and exchange among the indigenous peoples for thousands of years, as well as home to the Western Abenaki People. We honor, recognize, and respect our ancestors as the traditional stewards of this land we work today. In that spirit, we acknowledge that we are both at home on this land and guests to this land. We will work to respect and protect the lands and waters within our use.