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VIDEO OF THE WEEK! June 2, 2025
In which the piggies go on a new adventure. You can hear me wheezing because of the smoke from the Canadian wildfires. We've had two months of drought, so the pastures are quite short. |
Elsewhere Farm is a 40-acre farm located near the south shore of Lake Superior in Herbster, Wisconsin, 35 miles northwest of Ashland and 50 miles west of Superior. Native pollinators, rare breed Icelandic chickens, and occasionally an escaped American Guinea Hog piglet (or ten) roam the landscape. The farm sequesters carbon in its rich soils through the addition of compost, pastured animals, and limits on mechanical tillage. Perennials include cherries, apples, pears, strawberries, raspberries, aronia, elderberries, gooseberries, currants, saskatoon, highbush cranberry, and many others.
Feeding fifty families throughout the year, the quarter-acre market garden features heirloom and open-pollinated vegetable varieties and is modeled after traditional wetland agriculture called chinampas: the vegetables are grown intensively in raised beds, with flooded channels in between that support many species of frogs (which eat slugs!) and an occasional wetland bird. We are mostly no till, using mulches and tarps to manage weeds.
The farm is home to Icelandic chickens, a very rare breed of chickens that are good egg layers and foragers. Eggs are included in the summer and winter vegetable CSAs. We support native pollinators who enjoy the orchard and perennial flowers. We raise registered American Guinea Hogs, which is a threatened breed of pig. We take orders for pork shares from pigs dispatched in September and also have frozen meat available for sale from the farm. Feeder pigs and breeding stock are available from May on.
Though not certified organic, I manage my farm organically. The farm demonstrates Permaculture principles, which means modeling the farm as much as possible after the structures and functions of the local native ecosystem. You can learn more about what this means to my farm in this Farminar I did for the Practical Farmers of Iowa.
I’m the third settler farming on Crane Clan (Anishenabe) land in a frost pocket of the South Shore, at the bottom of what used to be Glacial Lake Duluth! I come from Ukrainian, Polish and Czech immigrants and am a transplant from Chicago. I have been slowly developing this farm for the last 24 years
Products are sold through a 20 week summer CSA, a 17-week winter CSA running weekly from December through March, and directly from the farm through a Saturday share in the summer. I limit my CSA size to have a more personal connection to my shareholders.
Elsewhere Farm is a woman owned and operated business, and I purchase as many farm supplies from the local region as possible. We are powered by solar, hand labor, pigs, chickens, and a lot of soil life. Check out our video tours of the chickens, market garden, orchard, and pigs below!
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Contact Us
Elsewhere Farm
16550 Nicoletti Herbster, WI 54844 (715) 774-3153 elsewherefarmherbster (at) gmail.com |