About Us

At Maple Heights Farm, it is our goal to provide you, the consumer with nutritionally dense and authentic products while working in harmony with nature by respecting the biological life-cycle systems of flora and fauna on our farm. You have our guarantee that everything we sell was produced on our farm, by us.

After working towards purchasing our farm for over two years, we finally closed the deal in October of 2007 as part of a preservation project with the town of Westminster and the state of Massachusetts.   Our family has continuously farmed in North Worcester County for the last century.

USDA Certified Organic

What does this mean to you? It means our farm is USDA Certified Organic and monitored by Baystate Organic Certifiers to prove to you that we are doing what we say we are doing. We use very few off-farm inputs on our fields. The animals eat and convert grasses, nuts, roots and bugs into the best fertilizers available. We only use the highest quality inputs on our farm when we need them. Thus far, this only consists of extra manure and wood ash and lime from a USDA approved source when it is needed. Although our cattle are not part of our organic plan, they eat only from our fields and fields we manage for other people in town. Their diet is not only 100% grass, but it is also 100% organic.

Farm Management

Animal Care
Raising healthy animals in a healthy environment eliminates problems that occur on feed lots. Our small herd of 40 cattle watch out for themselves.  They come in when they are too hot and they have shelter on cold stormy days – though typically we find them outside even in the worst weather.

Medications/Drugs
None.  Ever.  Would we use medications?  Yes, absolutely, if the health of an animal absolutely required it (and thus far, we have never had a requirement for any medicines). But our farm is in balance and we do not have the disease problems that other farmers report.  Many farms require regular use of worming medications and antibiotics for diseases. It is almost routine even on small farms to use "medicated" (read antibiotic) feed to start animals. We start ours without medicated feed.  We simply do not have the problems that require medications and we believe this is due to our concentration on keeping our land healthy.

Natural Resources Conservation
We have a goal to add one local field per year to our Organic Plan. What does this mean? It means that, for each field added, one more field is being cared for without pesticides, herbicides and poor management. Our fields are managed with regular mowing and the addition of manures and wood ash and lime as needed. No polluting quick-fix fertilizers that give a quick boost but return nothing to the soil. At this time, we have 15 acres off-farm that are included in our organic plan and managed by Maple Heights Farm.