Producer

Coastal Foodshed is proud to offer Red Fire Farm products on their behalf. Hear more about the farm and their products on their website. Here's a small except from there:

At Red Fire Farm, we’ve been growing with certified organic practices since we opened as RFF in 2001. Farmer Ryan Voiland actually started farming when he was 12, in 1991, in his back yard in Montague. He immediately certified his field as organic with NOFA/Baystate Organic Certifiers, and thus became one of the first certified farms in Massachusetts. Organic is part of our core.

The mission of Red Fire Farm is to be a year-round local source for high quality food and garden plants grown at our farm using organic principles that result in safe food and a healthy environment.

At Red Fire Farm we believe that there is a better way to farm than the chemical status quo that has dominated the American landscape and food system during the last half century. We believe that by working with the natural rhythms of the soil, plants, people and microorganisms we can grow excellent tasting food without the environmental and health risks that can accompany chemical intensive farming practices. We practice Certified Organic Farming and maintain certification with the Baystate Organic Certifiers which is an accredited certifier of the USDA Organic Certification program. We believe that organic certification helps assure that we make good decisions about our farming practices. We always seek to meet and exceed not only the letter of the organic farming rules, but also the intent. As organic farmers we never use chemical fertilizers, chemical pesticides or genetically modified plants. Instead we rely on things like compost, crop rotation and cover crops to keep our land and crops healthy and productive.