Farm
Circle Brook Farm
An 80-acre certified-organic diversified vegetable farm in Andover Township, NJ (Sussex County) — Poconos foothills. Practices regenerative methods; specializes in heirloom variety selection. Serves roughly 700 CSA members across 12 CSA groups in northern and central New Jersey (delivering as far south as Monmouth and Ocean counties), plus six farmers markets (Denville, Fair Lawn, Hoboken, Jersey City, Montclair). Donated over 41,000 lbs of produce to LocalShare in 2022.
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What they do
Circle Brook Farm is an 80-acre certified-organic [[vegetable-farm|diversified vegetable farm]] at 141 Brighton Road in Andover Township, NJ — Sussex County, the New Jersey side of the [[poconos|Poconos]] foothills. The farm uses regenerative practices and specializes in heirloom variety selection (flavor is the primary seed-selection criterion).
Production:
- Wide-spectrum organic vegetables — almost every vegetable that grows in NJ climate
- [[heirloom-varieties|Heirloom varieties]] chosen for flavor over uniformity or shippability
- Year-round CSA pickup in some seasons; growing-season weekly delivery
Retail surfaces:
- CSA — ~700 members across 12 CSA groups in northern and central NJ; deliveries reach as far south as Monmouth and Ocean counties
- Six farmers markets — Denville, Fair Lawn, Hoboken, Jersey City, Montclair
- Direct-from-farm for some operations
Food-justice arm: the farm donated 41,111 lbs of produce to LocalShare in 2022 and 20,375 lbs in 2023 — a large-volume commitment to food-access programs that’s unusual among small organic farms.
Why it’s listed
Circle Brook is exactly the substrate-builder operation [[directory|the directory]] exists to surface: certified-organic + regenerative practice + heirloom variety stewardship + ~700-member CSA + multi-market retail + tens of thousands of pounds donated to food banks. Each piece of that compounds with the others.
Bioregional fit
Andover, Sussex County NJ sits in the [[poconos]] foothills — the southwestern arm of the [[pocono-plateau|Pocono Plateau]] that crosses the Delaware River into northwestern New Jersey. Glacial-till soils, cool-temperate microclimate, deep frost in winter.
See also
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- Instance of: [[vegetable-farm]] · [[community-supported-agriculture]]
- Shares approach with: [[regenerative-agriculture]] · [[food-sovereignty]]
- Member of: [[farm]]
- Contained by: [[poconos]]
Sources
- CSA Newark — Circle Brook Farm
- Bloomfield-Montclair CSA — meet the farmers
- LocalHarvest CSA listing
- OpenStreetMap: original tag
Related concepts: [[farm]] · [[community-supported-agriculture]].
A listing in the 0mn1.one [[directory]]. Filed under [[poconos]] in [[directory|the directory]].
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