Roxbury Farm

Roxbury Farm is a community supported farm.  We grow vegetables, herbs, and grass fed pork, lamb, and beef for over 1000 shareholders representing over 1200 families in four communities--Columbia County, the Capital Region, Westchester County and Manhattan--on 300 acres in Kinderhook, New York. 

Our farmland has been taken off the market, permanently. It can never be bought or sold again. It can only be leased, and only by a farmer who commits to farming it. The lease is lifelong and inheritable, and the fee is based on the agricultural value of the land, not the market value.  Affordable housing for the farmer and farm employees is also protected in perpetuity.  Even in the rapidly rising country home market two and a half hours from New York City, this land and housing will always be available and affordable to a farmer.

Roxbury Farm is a biodynamic farm.   A biodynamic farmer allows a great diversity of living organism on his or her farm to thrive as those systems have proven to be most efficient in harboring life and storing energy. Every aspect of the farm makes its own unique contribution to the whole. When a farm is biodynamic it is transformed from a factory, producing food and generating profit, to a being that has its own characteristics with associated strengths and weaknesses that are honored.

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Feeding the Cows

Posted by Jody :: Friday, March 2 :: 2:25pm

Feeding the cows on Roxbury isn't as simple as just feeding them. It is important to keep things clean and organized, thats why we make it a routine to clean out their feeding area once a week, which also means laying down more bedding and cleaning any excess "haylage" left in their feeding area. 

This is important for numerous reason, namely hygiene. Cows need to be clean just like us, and if they are standing in wet manure all day disease and infection is far likelier to ensue. 

Haylage: a stored forage that is essentially a grass silage wilted to 35 to 50 percent moisture

—Johannes Courtens

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