The Farm at Stone Court is a diverse, interdependent system of people, livestock, plants, and land. Our goal is to offer each of these individual elements the opportunity to realize its full capabilities. At the most elementary level, this means the opportunity for health, security, and respect. We understand health to mean not merely freedom from disease, but vitality and wellbeing. We understand security to include not merely the absence of danger, but freedom from fear and want and the presence of care and affection. We understand respect to include individual autonomy and the opportunity to make a meaningful contribution.
Our people include the farm’s owners and family, those who work with and for us, and our customers.
Our livestock include sheep and pigs for meat, and chickens for meat and eggs in numbers that provide each animal with space to move about freely and to obtain nourishment primarily from our land. In turn, these livestock contribute fertility for our plants.
Our plants are mainly perennials (those that re-grow every year without tilling and re-seeding), producing foods for the family’s use, for direct sale, and for value-added production as jams, chutneys, and syrups. They include sugar maple trees, fruit trees and berry bushes, rhubarb, and asparagus. Our plants also include the grass crop that nourishes our animals.
Our land provides us with a sense of identity and place that contributes to our security. We will steward it responsibly, so that its beauty and productivity are not only maintained, but improved, to sustain those who come after us.
Our people include the farm’s owners and family, those who work with and for us, and our customers.
Our livestock include sheep and pigs for meat, and chickens for meat and eggs in numbers that provide each animal with space to move about freely and to obtain nourishment primarily from our land. In turn, these livestock contribute fertility for our plants.
Our plants are mainly perennials (those that re-grow every year without tilling and re-seeding), producing foods for the family’s use, for direct sale, and for value-added production as jams, chutneys, and syrups. They include sugar maple trees, fruit trees and berry bushes, rhubarb, and asparagus. Our plants also include the grass crop that nourishes our animals.
Our land provides us with a sense of identity and place that contributes to our security. We will steward it responsibly, so that its beauty and productivity are not only maintained, but improved, to sustain those who come after us.