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Earth Sky Time Community Farm

Also known as: Earth Sky Time, EST

A three-generation certified-organic farmstead in Manchester, Vermont — 6 acres of organic vegetables, 1½ acres of pick-your-own berries and flowers, high-tunnel greenhouses, a wood-fired bakery, an on-site sawmill, and a concert venue. Expanded in 2018 by acquiring 200 acres south of the original site on Route 7A. Sells through farmers markets across the region (Manchester, Dorset, Londonderry, Ludlow, Cambridge NY, Williamstown MA), plus on-farm retail of breads, spreads, pastries, and bulk staples. Hosts Sunday evening summer concerts at the on-farm barn-stage.

What they do

Earth Sky Time Community Farm is a three-generation family farmstead in Manchester, Vermont, integrating production, processing, retail, and cultural programming on a single working land base:

  • 6 acres of certified-organic vegetables
  • 1½ acres of pick-your-own berries and flowers
  • High-tunnel greenhouses — tomatoes in summer, greens through the cold months
  • 200 acres of expansion land acquired 2018 south of the original site on Route 7A for field-crop production
  • Wood-fired bakery — breads, spreads, pastries
  • On-site sawmill
  • Concert venue — Sunday evening summer concerts at the barn-stage the operation built in 2013

Retail surfaces:

  • Farmers markets — fixture at Manchester, Dorset, Londonderry, Ludlow, Cambridge NY, and Williamstown MA
  • [[farm-stand|On-farm retail]] — the farm’s own produce, baked goods, value-added, plus local products from friends and bulk staples
  • Direct sales from the farmstead

The CSA model was used at the start of operations (2004) but the farm has gradually moved away from CSA toward a customer-flexible direct-retail model.

Why it’s listed

Earth Sky Time is the canonical Vermont multi-generation diversified farmstead: vegetables + berries + bakery + sawmill + music programming on the same land base, all of it under certified-organic practice, all of it run by the same extended family across three generations. [[directory|The directory]] tracks operations like this because the integration — farm + processing + retail + cultural surface — is what makes a small Vermont farm survive and generate enough revenue to last across generational handoff.

Bioregional fit

Manchester sits in Vermont’s Battenkill Valley at the southern end of the [[champlain-valley]] agricultural corridor. The siting between the Taconic Range and the Green Mountains gives the region its unusual mix of dairy country, orchard country, and the southern-Vermont arts-economy overlay.

See also

Auto-generated from this entry’s typed relations: frontmatter, grouped by relation type so the editorial signal isn’t flattened.

  • Instance of: [[vegetable-farm]] · [[farm-stand]]
  • Shares approach with: [[regenerative-agriculture]]
  • Contained by: [[champlain-valley]]
  • Also grows: [[berry-farm]]

Sources

Related concepts: [[farm]] · [[farm-stand]].

A listing in the 0mn1.one [[directory]]. Filed under [[champlain-valley]] in [[directory|the directory]].

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