Producer
Old Earth Orchards
Address: 692 Caswell St East Taunton, MA, 02718
Phone: 774-218-6416
Website: https://oldearthorchards.com/
About Us
Regenerative Food for a Resilient Community.
Old Earth Orchards is a small family farm in East Taunton, Massachusetts. Our mission is to connect our community to the land we love through vibrant agriculture. We raise and sell asparagus, rhubarb, pastured pork, and cranberries. Our orchards are growing, and we look forward to selling plums, peaches, nectarines, apples, and pears in the coming years. We use no-spray methods to grow our food and we are committed to putting carbon back into the soil to help fight climate change. Providing food to our community right here in Taunton and the surrounding towns is very important to us. We hope to get to know you soon!
Old Earth Orchards is a small family farm in East Taunton, Massachusetts. Our mission is to connect our community to the land we love through vibrant agriculture. We raise and sell asparagus, rhubarb, pastured pork, and cranberries. Our orchards are growing, and we look forward to selling plums, peaches, nectarines, apples, and pears in the coming years. We use no-spray methods to grow our food and we are committed to putting carbon back into the soil to help fight climate change. Providing food to our community right here in Taunton and the surrounding towns is very important to us. We hope to get to know you soon!
Practices
What we grow:
Asparagus: Asparagus season runs May through early June. We grow a linear mile of asparagus! We harvest the shoots in May and June which is the only time they are available for sale. All our crops are grown with an emphasis on soil health and minimizing pesticide use. For our asparagus, that means burning weeds with a mild salt/soap herbicide, and using big heaps of mulch to bury weeds and feed the soil. We do not till or apply conventional herbicides. We have some pest pressure in our asparagus patch, but not enough to entice us to treat for them.
Cranberries: The cranberries are grown on the property by Spring Rain Farm, run by William’s father, Billy. He uses Integrated Pest Management techniques such as late-watering to significantly reduce pesticide use. Our family has been growing cranberries since 1984. We also offer another heirloom cranberry variety, Howes, sourced from family friends and fellow cranberry growers, the Wards.
Orchard Fruit: We planted an orchard! Our ultimate goal is to offer a fruit CSA, but most of the trees are still too young to produce fruit. Since returning to the family farm in 2014, we have grafted and planted over 300 fruit trees – apples, pears, peaches, nectarines, and plums. We have dozens of varieties of fruit, some of which are hundreds of years old. Others only exist in a handful of places in the world. All are the likes of which you cannot find in a supermarket. We are hoping to have our first marketable orchard crop in 2024, as well as rhubarb, muskmelons, and wild elderberries.
Asparagus: Asparagus season runs May through early June. We grow a linear mile of asparagus! We harvest the shoots in May and June which is the only time they are available for sale. All our crops are grown with an emphasis on soil health and minimizing pesticide use. For our asparagus, that means burning weeds with a mild salt/soap herbicide, and using big heaps of mulch to bury weeds and feed the soil. We do not till or apply conventional herbicides. We have some pest pressure in our asparagus patch, but not enough to entice us to treat for them.
Cranberries: The cranberries are grown on the property by Spring Rain Farm, run by William’s father, Billy. He uses Integrated Pest Management techniques such as late-watering to significantly reduce pesticide use. Our family has been growing cranberries since 1984. We also offer another heirloom cranberry variety, Howes, sourced from family friends and fellow cranberry growers, the Wards.
Orchard Fruit: We planted an orchard! Our ultimate goal is to offer a fruit CSA, but most of the trees are still too young to produce fruit. Since returning to the family farm in 2014, we have grafted and planted over 300 fruit trees – apples, pears, peaches, nectarines, and plums. We have dozens of varieties of fruit, some of which are hundreds of years old. Others only exist in a handful of places in the world. All are the likes of which you cannot find in a supermarket. We are hoping to have our first marketable orchard crop in 2024, as well as rhubarb, muskmelons, and wild elderberries.