At Birdsong Farm we are really excited for the upcoming third season of the Garrettsville Farmers market. Sara and the rest of the group have done an amazing job of putting together a quality weekly market in a great downtown location. We’re proud to join with some of our fellow local foods producers to bring you the best our area has to offer.

For a small farm like ours direct sales at farmers markets are really the key to our survival. We strive to offer varieties of produce that you can’t find easily other places, and we love to educate our customers about our organic and regenerative growing practices. It’s the opportunity to build a relationship with the customer and the community that makes a farmer’s market so important. In the case of our farm, we love the idea of planting, tending, and harvesting our crops and taking them LESS THAN ONE MILE to the Garrettsville market to share with the town. What could be more local?

As the owner of Birdsong Farm I want to thank the folks who make it a habit to come out to the market every Thursday. Your interest and support make it possible to continue to push the boundaries of what I can accomplish as an organic farmer. In 2019 I completed my transition to a no till farming operation while maintaining my USDA organic certification. We are adding berry crops and more perennials to our offerings and constructing more high tunnels for cool weather production. I can spend the time and money that these efforts require knowing that I have great support from all my farmer’s market communities. It’s so important for us to work together to improve our food system, our environment and our town and we couldn’t do it without you. I look forward to seeing you all again Thursday evenings this summer, and please consider bringing a friend along with you!

     Matt Herbruck
 Owner
 Birdsong Farm

I know I do not speak just for myself when I say, there is nothing we love more than serving you and although the market may look and feel a little different this year, we will be there to welcome you...

We've been subtly trained to find delight in our dissatisfaction. And so, we practice bitterness without awareness. The bitterness does not alter the behavior of those with whom we disagree; bitterness changes us. Last season I grew some red romaine in our hilltop garden. It looked gorgeous, but it tasted like milkweed. To cure it, one must play a long game of honest observation, short-term work-arounds, and long-term solutions, which are built over seasons, not days.