Holcomb Farm is a hub of activity in West Granby. Visit on a summer weekend and you’ll likely see a wedding taking place in our North Barn Pavilion, CSA shareholders cutting flowers in the field, hikers on our trails, families picking up their weekly groceries in our Farm Store, and a holistic living workshop taking place in our greenhouse.
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Grow your own delicious shiitake mushrooms! Instructor Andy Griffin will teach you how to prepare a hardwood log and inoculate it with live shiitake spores. Fee for class and supplies: $40. Proceeds benefit Fresh Access, to help fight food insecurity in Connecticut. Click here to register. To register for the May 11 class, click here.
Join us on CT Trails Day -- Saturday, June 1 -- at 10 AM for a guided, family-friendly, leisurely ramble through open fields and wooded trails at Holcomb Farm, including the beautiful Holcomb Tree Trail arboretum. We will walk at a casual pace, with discussion stops along the way. Leashed dogs are welcome! We will meet […]
Holcomb Farm is excited to participate in this Granby tradition! The Farm Store will be open from 10 am to 6 pm. At 10 am, Metro Bis Executive Chef Chris Prosperi will teach visitors how to prepare some of his favorite Holcomb Farm vegetables in some of his favorite recipes. (Location: Farm Store) At 1 […]
Come celebrate the joy of the harvest! The Friends of Holcomb Farm are excited to host a Harvest Dinner and Live Auction to benefit Fresh Access, our program that helps reduce food insecurity in Granby, Greater Hartford, and beyond. Chef Joe Bucholz – formerly of La Figata and now the executive chef at the Healing […]
We will have potatoes, sweet potatoes, parsnips, carrots, radishes, beets, greenhouse greens, and our specialty spring microgreens to take home in two veggie bag sizes. Microgreens are a rare, seasonal delicacy at the farm when the seeding greenhouse is gearing up but not full of seedlings yet. Nutrient-dense, fresh, fragrant, and flavorful - the microgreens […]
We will have potatoes, sweet potatoes, parsnips, carrots, radishes, beets, greenhouse greens, and our specialty spring microgreens to take home in two veggie bag sizes. Microgreens are a rare, seasonal delicacy at the farm when the seeding greenhouse is gearing up but not full of seedlings yet. Nutrient-dense, fresh, fragrant, and flavorful - the microgreens […]
Join Joe on a tour of Holcomb Farm and learn about our greenhouse operations, what goes on at the farm in the spring and how we prepare for the summer, get growing advice from Joe, and so much more! This tour is kid-friendly and open to the community, so bring your family and friends and […]
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Rescheduled to May 3 due to Rainy Forecast Volunteers from the Holcomb Tree Trail will demonstrate the best way to plant a tree and how to care for it so that it can grow for decades to come. We will meet at the Holcomb Farm main campus at 113 Simsbury Road and walk to the […]