About Our Farm
Our planet is a closed system, and we farm with the whole system in mind.
Sparrowhawk Farm is a low- to no-till farm in Charlotte, Vermont, growing cut flowers and bedding plants. The farm utilizes regenerative and organic production practices; we prioritize beauty and the highest quality flowers and plants.
Our promise is to provide beautiful, seasonal flowers for friends and neighbors, and to farm in a way that increases the health of the ecosystem around us.
We view our role as stewards of the soil, the water, and the living beings on the farm. We judge our success by the amount of life in the soil, the number of birds in the trees, and the quality of the water that moves through the farm. We build healthy soils and biodiversity throughout the garden and across the farm; we rotate our crops and allow the garden beds time to rest; and we strive to reduce the use of synthetic fertilizers and pesticides whenever possible.
Our attention to holistic production involves not just how we grow our flowers and produce, but also how we sell these to you. We strive to use compostable, reusable, and recyclable supplies throughout the growing and harvesting cycle. Our goal is to send you home with gorgeous fresh flowers and food, and to never send you home with something bound for a landfill.
Additionally, we are becoming certified organic through Vermont Organic Farmers in 2024.
We acknowledge that we are farming on the unceded land of the N’dakina people.
I’m Phoebe, and I began farming in the Champlain Valley of Vermont in 1989, when my parents brought our family to a dairy farm in Shoreham. We spent years caring for our animals and land, raising Jerseys who grazed the fields and produced the milk. I milked the cows, cared for calves and sheep, and roamed the hills and fields with my sister. After high school, I worked on an organic vegetable farm for nearly a decade, alternating between growing food and studying geology.
Sparrowhawk Farm emerged in the winter of 2022 from a combination of determination and good luck. I knew it was time to finally bring my own farm into existence, and I was able to begin reclaiming two overgrown fields and a small hoop house that are near my house. In the winter of 2023, I was fortunate enough to transition the land at Unity Farm to my management as Sparrowhawk Farm.
As a farm child, I prioritized utility and production. I carried this focus for many years until, one spring, my young son helped to shift my perspective. When he asked for more flowers for our garden, he said to me, “Everyone needs beautiful things!”
He was right–everyone deserves beauty. As the song Bread and Roses reminds us, “Hearts starve as well as bodies–give us bread, but give us roses.”
I am striving to fill hearts with the beauty, art, and connection to nature that flowers can provide to us all.
I am a queer mom and I want to help everyone find sustainable beauty!
