Drumm Farm Market
The century old tradition of using Drumm’s natural resources to teach life skills to the children and youth it serves is very much alive today. Children and youth are offered the opportunity to work with Drumm staff to plant and harvest a 4-acre garden, care for small livestock, and operate our farmer's market. Helping with farm operations offers immediate income while connecting with the environment and learning valuable life skills. The public is invited to shop at the Drumm Farm Market every Saturday (April-Oct.) to help promote these valuable life skills.
Goats, Growth, and Gratitude…
A common question I get this time of year is “So what do you do in the winter?” The daylight is short, the leaves are off the trees, and the farm has a deceptively still appearance in general in the winter. But we stay quite busy in the off season! It’s the perfect time of year to catch up on all the things we don’t have time for when things are blooming all around us. We get a chance to reflect on our growth this season and plan for the next; and we can observe the environment, remembering that everything needs time to rest.
Our herd of sheep and goats are quietly expecting our next round of lambs, and we are working to make sure they have the nutrition, comfort, and care they need. Our pigs are hunkered down for the winter, and we recently sold just over half a dozen feeders at auction. Community members are welcome to email me for details about whole animal purchase! I’m also looking ahead to our next market season, contacting local vendors for our customers’ most-requested items like eggs, bread, cheese and mushrooms.
The youth are doing important maintenance tasks on the farm like organizing irrigation equipment, adding layers of mulch to our perennial asparagus patch, and making sure our animals have water dishes that don’t freeze in the cold. In just a couple of weeks we’ll begin seeding our 2026 crops in the greenhouse! In the meantime, we will be enjoying a few more long winter naps.
-Anna Arnot, Farm Manager