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Far Away Farms

Also known as: Far Away Farm

A 14-acre family farm in Cherry Ridge Township, Wayne County, Pennsylvania, owned and operated by Dave and Anita Avvisato. Produces vegetables, herbs, and fruit using natural growing methods and operates an on-farm apiary producing raw honey. Sells direct at the Wayne County Farmers Market in Honesdale. One of the clearest cases of the bioregion's diversified small-acreage farm: under 20 acres, one or two operators, multiple revenue streams (vegetables, herbs, fruit, honey), all sold direct.

What they grow

  • Vegetables — full-season production with farmers-market presence
  • Herbs — culinary herbs, possibly medicinal
  • Fruit — small-fruit production (berries, tree fruit) appropriate to Wayne County climate
  • Raw honey — from the farm’s own apiaries

Why it matters

14 acres is small by any conventional measure. What the farm demonstrates is that the small-acreage diversified model — vegetables + herbs + fruit + honey from on-farm bees, all sold direct — can sustain a [[farm|working farm]] with one or two operators. This is the working scale where the bioregion’s food-system future plausibly lives. Larger operations consolidate into commodity markets; smaller operations don’t justify the equipment and infrastructure investment. The 10–20-acre direct-sales [[mixed-farm|diversified farm]] is the survivable shape.

For [[directory|the directory]]:

  • Working small-acreage farm case study
  • On-farm apiary — pollinator and value-add together
  • Cherry Ridge geography — adjacent to but slightly outside the highest plateau elevations, the kind of microclimate where small-acreage growing actually works

See also

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  • Member of: [[farm]]
  • Contained by: [[poconos]]
  • Practices: [[beekeeping]] · [[diversified-farming]]
  • Grows: [[cherry]]

Sources

  • Wayne County AgroLegacy producer directory
  • LocalHarvest farm listings
  • [[honesdale-farmers-market|Wayne County Farmers Market]] vendor records
  • Wayne Independent coverage of regional farms

Related concepts: [[farm]].

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