Producer

Alprilla Farm is located in Essex, Massachusetts on the edge of the Castle Neck and Essex River estuaries. Our ecologically grown vegetables, grains and beef are available through our WINTER CSA, restaurants, natural food markets and other venues around the North Shore.

We strive to grow the most delicious and nourishing food for Essex and our neighboring towns and cities by working respectfully with our farm’s ecosystem.

Today, the Alprilla Farm operation cultivates a series of open spaces along a couple miles of the John Wise Avenue neighborhood, many of them leased. While Cape Ann isn’t known for it’s agricultural soil, we’ve been able to stitch together an “archipelago” of sorts of land suited for vegetables and grain. The home farm houses the packing shed, equipment barn, share room and CSA pick-your-own. The land continues to make hay and will now, once again, support a herd of beef cattle. The landscape of the business is varied and produces a diverse set of foods—vegetables, grains and meat—but we strive to have each aspect elegantly interact with the rest to create a whole farm organism.