Shakefork Community Farm

Shakefork Community Farm Shakefork Community Farm is 85 acres alongside the Van Duzen in sunny Carlotta. We grow a diversity Wendell Berry

Shakefork Community Farm is 85 acres alongside the Van Duzen River in sunny Carlotta. We grow over 150 varieties of vegetables, grains for human and animal consumption, pastured chicken and eggs, and a variety of grass-fed meats. The food we raise is primarily distributed through our CSA program and three Humboldt Farmers’ Markets – Tuesday in Fortuna, Friday in Garberville, and Saturday in Arcata

. At Shakefork Community Farm our passion for farming is deeply rooted in a profound and transformative lifestyle commitment. We draw little to no boundary between work and life; the stuff of sustaining life is our work and our play. We farm to reconnect with a simple agrarian lifestyle and strive to supply as many of our own needs as possible. It is our goal to eventually provide for Humboldt County most of the foods that are foundational in our diet. "We have neglected the truth that a good farmer is a craftsman of the highest order, a kind of artist. It is the good work of good farmers - nothing else - that ensure a sufficiency of food over the long term."

76 shares and 4 pick up sites across every Friday through October.📍 Our farm in Carlotta📍 Farmer Kevin’s parents’ fron...
06/05/2026

76 shares and 4 pick up sites across every Friday through October.

📍 Our farm in Carlotta
📍 Farmer Kevin’s parents’ front stoop in Fortuna
📍 The Evergreen Lodge on the St. Joseph Hospital campus
📍 The Harvest Hub in North Arcata .harvesthub

More small farms feeding their families, friends, neighbors, and communities.

We can’t feed the world, but we don’t have to.

We can feed the people right here, in this place we call home. We can build something rooted, relational, and resilient, one farm share, one pickup site, one season at a time.

That feels pretty powerful to me.

Not sure I can pull off intimidating🤣.It’s not really my style.But I’m hoping I can at least fool the gophers.Macabe tra...
06/05/2026

Not sure I can pull off intimidating🤣.

It’s not really my style.

But I’m hoping I can at least fool the gophers.

Macabe traps are in hand, the lettuce is on the line, brassicas are under attack, and I mean business 😡.

We’ve got exciting news!You’ve been asking where to find our eggs and chicken mid-week, and now we finally have an answe...
06/04/2026

We’ve got exciting news!

You’ve been asking where to find our eggs and chicken mid-week, and now we finally have an answer for you: Henderson Center Farmers’ Market in Eureka!

Happening today from 10–1:30 in Henderson Center.

Miss Sylvia is setting up with a beautiful spread of Shakefork goodness:

🥚 Freshly packed eggs
🍗 Whole chickens
🍲 Meaty bones, chicken feet, leg & thighs, wings
🥩 Ground beef
🥘 Chuck roasts
🥩 Sirloin tip roasts
🥬 Green butter lettuce
🥗 Super Salad Mix & spinach
🫛 Snap peas & snow peas

Come on out, stock up for the week, and show Sylvia some love!

Find market details here: https://www.northcoastgrowersassociation.org/hendersoncenter.html

Our 21-week CSA season has officially launched!We love this time of year, when so much of the late winter and spring eff...
06/04/2026

Our 21-week CSA season has officially launched!

We love this time of year, when so much of the late winter and spring effort begins to bear fruit, and we get to share the abundance with our community.

And week one is a banger 🤩

So many sugar snap peas. Luscious strawberries. (Sorry, market customers; our CSA members are getting the berries this week!) Beautiful zucchini, broccoli raab, and salad mix for the Garden Share, plus carrots and yukina savoy for our bonus Family Share.

Getting 150 farm shares picked, packed, portioned, loaded, delivered, and into the hands of our members is a whole-team effort.

There are so many moving pieces behind the scenes — from harvest to wash/pack, from share packing to van loading, delivery routes to all the tiny details that keep pickup day flowing smoothly.

Big thanks to for the behind-the-scenes support that helped our first pickup day run so well!

I appreciate our whole team immensely, their energy, care, and commitment to the shared goal of feeding this community the very freshest, most seasonal produce this land has to offer.

Especially my CSA pack team. You ladies rocked it. 💚

Yukina Savoy is back on the menu!!A market favorite best described as bok choy meets spinach. Try a bunch… you just migh...
05/30/2026

Yukina Savoy is back on the menu!!

A market favorite best described as bok choy meets spinach. Try a bunch… you just might fall in love.

Lots of juicy sugar snap peas, snow peas, broccoli raab, arugula, zucchini, cucumbers, lettuce heads, super salad mix, spinach, radishes and strawberries 🍓🍓🍓

A freshly processed batch of chicken, eggs and beef!

See you at the market, Humboldt!!

Faces & butts.The perfect w**d killing combination.
05/29/2026

Faces & butts.

The perfect w**d killing combination.

It’s been a week of training new farmhands and training tomatoes… and I’ve got to say, I am completely beat 😴The cattle ...
05/23/2026

It’s been a week of training new farmhands and training tomatoes… and I’ve got to say, I am completely beat 😴

The cattle herd was just behind the high tunnels while we trellised, watching our every move. A very curious, very opinionated audience.

We got to the tomatoes just before things got out of control. We knocked back some w**ds in between all the things. We harvested, washed, packed, taught, learned, adjusted, and kept going.

There’s so much abundance right now. So much good food. So much good work. And so many good people willing to do it all with us.

I give this farm just about everything I’ve got, almost every day — and I know our team does too.

And always, we reap the benefits a hundred times over.

In meals rooted in the seasons.
In work that asks a lot, but gives a lot back.
In so much abundance to show for our efforts at the end of the day.

Tomorrow we’ll be just off the Arcata Plaza to make room for the Kinetic Sculpture Race, a true Humboldt tradition. Find us on I Street in front of the Co-op, near 8th.

We’ll have a ton of strawberries, snap peas, broccoli raab, Super Salad Mix, radishes, eggs, and more!!

Tonight’s dinner feels like our mission statement on a plate.Good food, raised with care and integrity.Rooted in the rhy...
05/19/2026

Tonight’s dinner feels like our mission statement on a plate.

Good food, raised with care and integrity.
Rooted in the rhythms of this land.
Connected to the soil, animals, seasons, and relationships that make it all possible.

This is what we mean when we talk about cultivating health from the ground up - for our family, our crew, our customers, our animals, our land, our watershed, and our community.

And tonight? Farmer Clyde is pretty thrilled to have cucumbers back on the menu.

Blistered sugar snap peas on the side.
Just picked strawberries for dessert.

A full-circle, deeply seasonal, very simple meal… and one very happy kid 💚

We’re going organic! 🌱Well, to be more accurate: we’ve always grown organic. Now, with support from an Organic Transitio...
05/17/2026

We’re going organic! 🌱

Well, to be more accurate: we’ve always grown organic. Now, with support from an Organic Transition Grant through CCOF, we’re beginning the process of becoming Certified Organic.

For us, organic has always been the baseline — not the finish line.

We already feed certified organic feed to our laying hens, source certified organic hay for our oxen and cattle, use certified organic potting soil and amendments, and make most of our fertility right here on the farm by composting rich animal manures with locally sourced wood shavings.

No sprays. No funny business. Just honest, real good food.

For 17 years, we’ve chosen relationship, transparency, and trust over third-party certification. And that still matters most to us.

But as our farm grows, and our food reaches more people who may not know our full story, it feels like the right time to make it official.

There’s paperwork ahead — Organic System Plans, field maps, compost records, inspections — but the growing practices are already here.

And we’re especially excited about what this could mean for our eggs: Certified Organic, pasture-raised eggs from right here in Humboldt County. That feels pretty darn special. Whoop whoop! 🥚✨

Thank you for trusting us before certification and helping us take this next step. 🌿

An ode to the onion 🧅This week was a true homage to one of the most humble, hardworking crops we grow.We planted nearly ...
05/14/2026

An ode to the onion 🧅

This week was a true homage to one of the most humble, hardworking crops we grow.

We planted nearly 20,000 onion starts — red torpedoes, sweet Walla Wallas, and sturdy red and yellow storage varieties that will carry us, and YOU, deep into fall and winter.

Onion planting is a spring ritual for farmers here in Humboldt County. It’s an early-season anchor: a task that asks for steady, quick-moving hands, a persistent squat, and a whole lot of teamwork.

I still remember my first season farming back in 2004, when I planted onions on three different farms. There’s something unforgettable about it: the long rows, the rhythm, the camaraderie, the soil-roughened hands.

These are the first seeds we sow in early February. Almost three months later, we tuck them into the soil — row after row — an investment in so much good food to come.

It’s always a good day for an ode to the onion: pungent, versatile, dependable, and ever so tasty.

Here’s to the humble onion. May we never take it for granted. 🧅

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7914 State Highway 36
Carlotta, CA
95528

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Monday 8am - 5pm
Tuesday 8am - 5pm
Wednesday 8am - 5pm
Thursday 8am - 5pm
Friday 8am - 5pm

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