Our Farm Partners

Windflower Farm

This year, our primary farm partner is Windflower Farm.

Windflower Farm is a small family farm located in Taconic Hill country, between the Hudson River and the Vermont border. Ted and Jan Blomgren have been growing organic vegetables and cut flowers for shareholders in New York City for over ten years.

Ted brings to Windflower Farm his training in horticulture and experience as an educator. Formerly an adviser to Cornell Corporation Extension, he’s now a full-time farmer.

Jan brings to the farm experience as an illustrator and training in botany and she is a superior floral designer.

Ted and Jan’s sons contribute boundless energy, a sense of wonder, and a variety of their own different farm enterprises.

Ted and Jan’s philosophy in their own words is “Community supported agriculture (CSA) is a collaboration between farmers and the people who eat the food they grow. As Wendell Berry puts it, ‘Eating is an agricultural act.’ CSA is a means by which people may establish a stronger relationship with the sources of their food.

As farmers, we make a commitment to you to be good stewards of the land we grow your food on and to grow a wide variety of high-quality vegetables in suitable quantities for you and the people with whom you share your table. And you, the folks who eat our food, make a commitment to us and the ecological practices we use by purchasing a share in our harvest, by sharing in some of the risks (and potential bounty) associated with growing crops in the Northeast, and by paying in advance of the season for your produce.

We believe that the principles of sustainable agriculture apply to every kind of farming, from the growing of the fresh vegetables and fruits that make their way to your dinner plates, to the production of the fresh-cut flowers that adorn your tables. As organic growers, we use no pesticides or synthetic fertilizers of any kind. To enrich our soils, we use cover crops, crop rotations, and compost. We are committed to careful land stewardship, ecological pest management, and a healthy environment for the people who work with us. In this way, we hope to leave our farm in good condition for future generations.”

Our Extra Share Items

Fruit Share (optional)

Pick up the best of Washington County’s seasonal fruit each week for 20 weeks for a full share and 10 weeks for a half share. Ted, the farmer at Windflower Farm, does not grow his own fruit on site, instead he shops neighboring farms to bring you the highest quality, lowest spray, variety of seasonal fruits available in Washington County. Fruits received during a given season may include:

apples • apricots • blueberries • blackberries • cherries • nectarines • peaches • pears • plums • raspberries • rhubarb • strawberries

Flower Share (optional)

Decorate your table with weekly organic blooms from Windflower Farm! A flower share costs $124 for 10 weeks of beautiful organic flower bouquets grown with love and care by Ted’s wife from the gardens of Windflower Farm.

Egg Share (optional)

This year Ted will also be providing the egg shares from a neighboring farm.

Please note that egg and flower shares arrive weekly, that means each and every week, so if you are receiving a half share of vegetables and a half share of fruit, that means although your vegetables and fruit arrive every other week you will still need to pick up your egg and flower shares every week.

Egg Share: 22 weeks of natural, antibiotic-free, cage free eggs.
Fruit Share: 20 or 10 weeks of low spray fruit.
Flower Share: 10 weeks of organic bouquets.