Winter Cove Farm

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Winter Cove Farm

Winter Cove Farm offers unique, cold-hardy fruit trees and personalized information on growing them without spraying poisons.

**Our nursery is located at our home. We open for selected hours for Bare Root Fruit Tree Sales in the Spring. We will post the hours shortly.**

We’re fruit explorers on a journey towards finding the most awesome trees, shrubs and vines to grow in cold climates while creating a self-sustaining food forest system that gives abundantly without micro-managing. Our Mission:

To offer personally teste

d fruit and nut plants that grow in zone 2 through zone 6 for the home orchardist and to be your go to for information on growing fruit and nut producing trees, shrubs and plants. What we do:

We utilize permanent agriculture (permaculture) principals, looking to God’s creation for information as to what conditions each plant needs in each location. Our Nursery only carries cold-weather varieties that we have personally tested on our farm. We work with beyond organic principles, concentrating on soil health and balancing the ecosystem. We teach others how to do the same whether you have 1/10th of an acre or 100 acres. We do this through our $100 Orchard Class and Orchard Starter Kit. Visit http://WinterCoveFarm.com for more information. We want to enjoy the earth and sharing what we have learned with you, it’s not about the paycheck. We believe that we are meant to be in community, working together to create sustainable orchards and food security throughout our communities.

12/06/2023

So I have been quiet, but I've been busy. Working on rewriting the WHOLE website and writing the book we never had time for. We'll have growing guides along with a whole bunch of new and updated info. Just one of the items I've been working on this week is creating planting guild info. Trying to keep it simple, because it really is.

08/03/2023

With all life has been throwing me, I’m happy to be picking tomatoes 😉

07/21/2023

I grew carrots!!! And they look like carrots. Growing food is still one of the biggest thrills I get and veggies are new for me so they’re even cooler. Grew under peas and now in with the tomatoes. Planned a succession of vegetables along with making sure there is little it no bare ground.

07/19/2023

If you look REALLY close you can see my first pepper ever! And I lost the pepper tags so I don’t even know which variety it is.

07/17/2023

The last of the first bloom of calendula in going into the dehydrator. Already have about a quart of them soaking in organic olive oil with roses. This oil will be ready in about three months and then mixed with organic beeswax and tallow if I can get it for a super healing hand cream.

05/26/2023

Rosa rugosa buds going into the dehydrator. We use Rosa rugosa as a hedge and companion plant as well as a Japanese beetle trap plant.

05/08/2023

Ants are pollinators too. Don’t discount the hard work that ants do in your garden and orchard. From protecting your trees from soft-bodied caterpillars to cleaning up aphids on your trees to, well, pollinating, ants are some of the hardest working helpers you’ll have. We ensure their assistance by planting lots of peonies, not that this is a hardship for a flower lover like me!

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Marshfield, MA
02050

Telephone

+12078529088

Website

http://wintercovefarm.com/

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Our Story

You might be surprised if you took a walk around our orchard and nursery. It's not what you'd expect. There are no long rows of the same plants with bare dirt and drip irrigation. This is our home, our family both grows our trees and spends our days playing in the same dirt. The kids sandbox, made from the granite foundation blocks of an old barn, sit next to rows of small trees and plants. Our chickens work each summer towards building the soil for next year's trees. The annuals grow along side perennials and the orchard looks more like a forest invading an old farm than the straight rows and tightly-mown grass you're used to seeing.

The trees and plants we grow thrive because of the piles of composting wood chips, the soil that is teaming with worms and the multitude of supporting plants that we have growing among them. The living soil is worlds away from the dirt found in most nurseries and we believe that it grows our trees to be stronger, healthier and more resilient. Our children can roll around the ground on our farm, play nerf guns among the trees and pull a carrot to eat straight from the dirt without one worry on our part.

At Winter Cove Farm, we are proud to be part of a growing community that puts our children, our community, our land and water before profits.

Our Mission:

To offer personally tested fruit and nut plants that grow in zone 3 through zone 6 for the home orchardist. To share our Simple, Natural and Poison-Free methods that we use to make your fruit growing easy. We aim to help others in cold climates create regenerative food forests throughout the coldest parts of the United States, increasing our local food supply and security.

What we do:

We offer Sustainably-Grown, Cold-Hardy Fruit Trees & Plants. We utilize permanent agriculture (permaculture) principles in our SNAP (Simple, Natural And Poison-Free) methods, looking to Creation for information as to what conditions each plant needs in each location. Our nursery only carries cold-weather varieties that we have personally tested on our farm (a cold zone 5).

We work with beyond organic principles, concentrating on soil health and balancing the ecosystem. We've found a way to grow healthy, nutritious food, within an ecosystem, without using man-made chemicals, intensive management or doing damage to the environment. We teach others how to do the same whether you have 1/10th of an acre or 100 acres. We do this through our classes throughout the growing year and in our online information.

We believe that we are meant to be in community, working together to create sustainable, regenerative orchards and food security throughout our communities working towards the restoration of the earth and the people within it.