SAMPLE CAMPAIGN
We are building Lovewell farm, our second farm, in order to create another productive growing space where we can offer more environmental education programs, demonstrate regenerative farming practices, and provide more locally grown food to our community. We need your help to make this second farm a reality. Funds from this kickstarter will be used to build a deer fence around the field's perimeter, tools such as a jang seeder, broad fork, tilther, caterpillar tunnels for season extension, irrigation supplies, and building supplies.
We built our first farm with the help of Kickstarter! The Fresh Roots Farm.
In 2015 we had the dream of building New Jersey's first educational community farm in partnership with the County of Bergen. With the success of that kickstarter campaign we have built productive sustainable farm venture that has had a HUGE community impact. Over the past five years the Fresh Roots Farm has grown food for Northern New Jersey families & restaurants, has educated thousands of people & students about sustainable agriculture, provided volunteer opportunities for thousands of people, and empowered hundreds of college student interns with the skills needed to create their own farms and pursue an environmental career. We want to do it again and even better!
Lovewell Farm
The new farm is located on one acre of historic farmland in a backyard within the suburbs of Mahwah, NJ. It is designed to address the root causes of environmental degradation and biodiversity loss by demonstrating innovative design and regenerative methods of farming, just like our Fresh Roots Farm. Fresh Roots Farm is the first farm of its kind in our region. It demonstrates that high yields of nutritious food can be produced in an environmentally friendly way, on a fraction of the land that industrial farms use.
Our goal is to create a scalable model for regenerative and ecological food production which can be easily replicated in other communities throughout the state and region. Lovewell Farm is another step towards making this vision a reality.
What's Different about Lovewell Farm?
Following the success of our Fresh Roots Farm, Lovewell Farm will continue to employ farming techniques and using stylistic influences from market-garden and permaculture practices, which work alongside, rather than against natural systems. A mix of these techniques allows us to minimize our water usage, increase the productivity of our land, and convey to our community the power of ecologically minded small-scale farming. Through cultivating our farm with these practices in mind, we are working to address major global environmental issues associated with food production by starting at the local level. Lastly, we believe deeply in the power of community based farming and here in the suburbs this type growing is needed more then ever. Lovewell is located in a suburban backyard among the sprawl of mansions & condo developments. Growing food here demonstrates that food can be produced in any backyard and envisions the possibility of converting more land.
Increasing Access to Local Food
Lovewell Farm will improve the well-being of our community by increasing access to healthy locally grown produce and reconnecting individuals with the source of their food. Our Fresh Roots Farm provides local families in our area with a source to buy local organically grown produce through our Community Supported Agriculture program (CSA), and the produce from Lovewell's farm will support a larger and more diverse CSA. In addition, the food grown at the farm will be sold to local restaurants to further support to economic sustainability of our farming program.