Suncrest Gardens Farm
Magic Mama recently performed at this rad CSA
Suncrest Gardens Farm is a 16 acre family farm nestled amongst the rolling river bluffs of west-central Wisconsin.
The farm’s mission is to create and enhance community relationships through fresh, locally produced food.
Suncrest Gardens Farm was founded in rural Cochrane, WI, in 2003. The 16 acre farm continually grows into a more sustainable farming business that brings community together around the subject of food. Suncrest Garden’s flourishes in diversity and variety with vegetables, raspberries, strawberries, sheep, cows, goats, ducks, rabbits, laying hens, meat chickens, llamas, as well as handcrafted items like our homemade jams.
The farm has two main enterprises: CSA vegetable subscriptions and wood-fired pizzas.
The farm began as a way to provide a rich, nurturing environment for their family to live and eat healthy while caretaking the land for future generations. And today, the farm has developed a solid community of supporters within the local region in order to produce a living wage for the farmers. Over 2 acres of vegetables and berries are cultivated and an unheated hoophouse and heated greenhouse help extend the seasons. Taking raw ingredients to the next level in the licensed food processing kitchen helps diversify the farm and create economic stability. Handcrafted soaps, homemade jams, wood-fired pizzas and other seasonal culinary inspirations fit this value-added niche for Suncrest Gardens LLC.
Heather Secrist is the farm owner and a mother of 2 very active little farm boys, Ashlan and Ethan. Heather’s interest in working with the land was cultivated on her parent’s dairy farm in Alma, Wisconsin. Her degrees in biology and psychology from Cornell College led Heather to pursue field research and later small-scale organic agriculture. Today, she enjoys the challenge of running a diverse small farm while balancing the duties of a busy mother. Heather continues to pursue personal learning while striving to implement creative solutions to making the farm a sustainable operation.
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Composting Toilet
In order to be more inline with our organic philosophy and to reduce our use of chemicals in all forms on the farm, we have built a two stall composting outhouse for people to use while at the farm. It is cleaner, more aesthetic, and does not smell like a traditional port-a-potty. And the extra bonus is that all excrements are composted through a heat cycle and two year decomposition process which creates a dirt like substance which will be used on flowers and trees, not any vegetables here at our farm.
