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Find us at Stangl Factory Farmers Market every Saturday 9-2 and at Lima Family Farm every Friday, Saturday and Sunday!
Located in Hunterdon County, New Jersey, Lower Neshanic Community Farm is named after the Neshanic River watershed on which it resides.
In an effort to protect the water, land and wildlife, the farm's soil health management is the top priority. These practices include minimal tillage, biological and mineral balancing, and intensive cover cropping for wide living pathways. The pathways reduce erosion and weed pressure and portions are strategically mowed and blown to feed nearby crops. Other areas are left un-mowed, providing habitat for good insects to fend off pest infestations.
The above practices combined with biological and mineral balancing creates conditions for soils to thrive. We add biology with high-quality compost and farm-brewed teas and extracts incorporating worm castings, kelp, molasses, lactobacillus (good bacteria), indigenous microorganisms (IMOs), leaves and other plant material from the farm. We mineral balance with OMRI approved organic amendments.
Branching out
One of the most significant projects for LNCF in terms of scope is our agroforestry project. Agroforestry is the intentional integration of trees and shrubs into crop and animal farming systems to create environmental, economic, and social benefits.
Beginning in 2025 Megan and Marissa planted hundreds of stems of willow in the willow garden - but this is only the beginning.
Future plans include butternut hickory for oil, hickories, white oaks, American persimmon, mulberry, hazelnut, apples and peaches, and honey berries. Each tree contributes not only valuable products for our community, but also to the overall health and aesthetic of our farm.
Take nothing for grant-ed
As a young farm, grants are our primary way of funding projects - everything from tools for cleaning, storing and transporting food products to farming equipment to construction and renovation must be funded somehow!
Thus far, we are proud to have received the Bucks County Food Shed Alliance Grant for market garden capital, the Catalyzing Agroforestry Grant for trees, the National Resources Conservation Service Grant for the construction of a high tunnel, and NJ Specialty Crop Grant for refrigeration.
Each of these grants allows us to move one step closer to our goal as a regeneratively-producing educational farm.
Plan your visit
Lower Neshanic Community Farm
270 Wertsville Rd
Ringoes, New Jersey 08551
(302) 540-3454
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