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Free Living Farm

Growing high quality produce utilizing deep organic methods focusing on soil health and nutrition.

11/27/2025

Thank you to everyone who chooses to support us, for valueing local food grown with intention and care and for knowing your farmers and where your food is coming from!

We have endless gratitude for our dedicated customers, new and old. We couldn’t continue down this path without your continued support, from Sunday mornings at the farmers markets, weekly csa pickups, online ordering throughout the fall and Saturday farmstand visits it all makes a difference and helps us to live this life, following our passion and to keep coming back year after year.

We hope you all have a wonderful holiday season and we’ll see you in the spring ✨

10/20/2025

We made it! Another CSA season in the books. Thank you to all our members who have been through the ups and downs of farming with us this season. We hope you had a wonderful experience supporting a local farm, eating with the seasons, trying new recipes and maybe even discovering new to you vegetables!

Week 21 ✨Butternut Squash, Carrots, Garlic, Green Peppers, Lettuce Mix, Onions, Spinach or Arugula, Watermelon & Daikon Radish
Large shares+ Lettuce Head, Kale or Chard & Sweet Potatoes

10/11/2025

Tomorrow is the last Sturbridge Farmer’s Market of the season. We’re heading there with some of our favorite produce. Ginger, Sweet Potatoes, Butternut Squash veggies that take all season to grow are finally ready. We had our first true frost taking down all the sensitive crops outdoors so it’s the last for green beans and summer squash/zucchini. We’ll be loaded up with storage crops such as onions, carrots, garlic, watermelon & daikon radish, beets, cabbages and all the fresh greens (lettuce, spinach, arugula) per usual. We love this market so much and if you’ve been wanting to check it out tomorrow’s the your last chance for this year! Come out to the common from 9-1. ✨

📧sign up for our email list if you want to keep on the veggie train through October and up until Thanksgiving. Our online store opens next week.

10/02/2025

October 🍁I wait all year for you. Your crisp mornings with crunchy leaves underfoot. Being able to bask in the full sun without dripping sweat, the slow down from the crazy farm season, roasted winter squash on the regular, pumpkins on the front porch, . It’s truly the best time of year.

As we near the end of market season with only 2 farmers markets left for the year. Our hearts are heavy with the passing of our fellow farmer, market vendor, mentor and friend, Jim from Hunt Road Berry Farm. It will be hard to look across the common to where his tent should be. We’ll miss his humor and kindness and the integral part he had in the market and farming community. Jim will be deeply missed and we’re so sad to hear of his passing 💔

09/23/2025

It’s officially the most wonderful time of the year. We’re prepping this week for the Garlic & Arts Festival in Orange. Seed garlic, dried flower bouquets, garlic braids & bunches, ginger and more will be available! Michael will be on the Sturbridge common Sunday with all the fresh veggies from 9-1 and Cara will be in Orange, MA from 10-5 on Saturday and Sunday 🧄

09/04/2025

Hello September- we made it 😅

As farmers making it over the hump of August is huge. The temps start to cool, the seeding and transplanting slows, the summer harvests hault a bit and everything feels a bit lighter. Although it can be sad to see the season change and certain crops come and go something that will always ring true for me is that I will always welcome fall with open arms. Bring on the winter squash harvests, storage crops, cool season greens and slower days 🍂

07/04/2025

Smells like, looks like, feels like, tastes like summer ☀️

We’re drowning in cucumbers, the snap pea and zucchini harvests are endless, the first cherry tomatoes are ripening, the onion patch is engulfed in weeds and the horseflies are out for blood. Welcome to July 🎆

06/21/2025

Happy Summer Solstice! Walking home from the field to the light of fireflies brings on a nostalgic feeling and reminds me of my childhood when I’d trap them in jars and watch as they’d flicker about. The days are long and working during golden hour when the field cools down and the sun is setting is our favorite time of day. We wait all year for the solstice when everything on the farm is at peak growth. It’s gone in a flash and we hope you all get to savor the long days. Summer is here and you can find the first cucumbers of the season along with the last of spring spinach and arugula this weekend at the farm stand and

06/07/2025

Week 2 of CSA and Market! So many spring greens and roots heading out to our members and market customers. The first big harvest of snap peas is coming out of the tunnel and the field peas just started flowering 🫛 The field greens are starting to catch up after the cold spring and we have a mile long list of summer crops to get in the ground. We’re excited to share this week’s harvest!

Farmstand | Saturday 10-2
Sturbridge Farmers Market | Sunday 9-1

CSA WEEK 2 🥬
Bok Choy/Pac Choi, Green Garlic, Lettuce Mix, Japanese Salad Turnips, Spinach
LG+ Lettuce Head, Extra Lettuce Mix, Rainbow Chard

05/29/2025

It’s been a cold & wet spring but fortunately greens love that kind of weather. We may be waiting on our field crops to catch up to our tunnels but with another week of ☀️ & warmth they’ll be back on track.

The first Sturbridge Farmers Market of the season is this Sunday and we’re excited to be back ok the common every Sunday from 9-1!

Monday members we’ll see you in Worcester from 4:30-6.

The harvest season is finally here and we can’t wait to share this year’s abundance with you all!

CSA Week 1:
Lettuce Mix, Radish bunch, Chives or Cilantro, Spinach, Kale
Large shares+ Arugula, Pac Choi & extra Lettuce

05/08/2025

FARMSTAND OPENING DAY
& PLANT SALE 🌱

THIS SATURDAY- MAY 10th

📍87 Maple Ln Petersham, MA
⏱️10:00 AM - 2:00 PM

Organic plant starts, fresh veggies & eggs, specialty tulip bunches & bouquets 💐

Rain ☔️ or shine ☀️

Address

87 Maple Lane
Petersham, MA
01366

Telephone

+15088649650

Website

http://www.freelivingfarm.com/

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Farm Vision

Free Living Farm has emerged from our desire to be a source of real, healthy, local food and information while stewarding the ecology around us in a familiar and beloved region. The Farm name broadly encompasses our vision of growing food in a manner that encourages the free living soil organisms that sustain us all and preserving the essence of feeling truly alive, vibrant and aware in this modern world.

We choose to practice regenerative methods of farming that build soil structure and biology, mineralize the soil and encourage biodiversity without relying on corporate chemical concoctions that deplete and poison the land. Biologically active soils provide the evolutionary relationship plants thrive on, resulting in deeply nutritious food/medicine. We know that health is primarily rooted in what one consumes daily so we strive to grow the best produce we can to cultivate community nourishment, empowerment and ecology.