Our Summer CSA is in progress, but you can still sign up for a prorated share throughout the season.  The Immune Booster box has been replaced by our Tantre Farm Produce box for the remainder of the season.

As some of you may already know, various weather conditions, a late frost,  an overabundance of weeds, an older patch, and small strawberries, made the strawberries less abundant this year. We will be open June 16, 18, 20 and 21 from 8AM-4PM for Strawberry U-pick this week. Please note: The scheduled installation of a roundabout at Zeeb and Scio Church roads is beginning this week, although construction had not begun yet as of June 15.  The WRC notice includes a map of the detour. Please stay tuned for updates.

HISTORY
Tantré Farm started its very first crops of formerly certified organic potatoes, winter squash, and garlic in 1993 on a 40-acre parcel. Since then our farm has grown to include about 80 to 100 varieties of vegetables, mushrooms,  and a small variety of herbs and flowers.  Our fruit crops include strawberries, raspberries, blackberries, pears, melons, and more depending on the fruit weather. In addition to that, we have a dog, some cats, a small flock of egg-laying chickens and ducks, a few pigs, and a small herd of cows.  Now our farmland has grown to about 115 acres of wetland, woods, and sand-loam fields in the area. 

We’ve been using exclusively ecological production methods since we started the farm in 1993. In addition, we use holistic and ecological principles to guide our decisions and our relationship with our land, water, and soil including crop rotations, only organic approved pesticides and fertilizers such as kelp meal or manure, and constant observations of soil health, herbivore damage, water quality, etc.  Although we had been certified organic for almost 20 years, we have found the organic certification process has grown to be expensive and extremely cumbersome. At this point we have decided to use our energies to improve our farm in other ways, trusting that our members and customers can reach out to us for information on our practices.  At this point we are promoting our produce as “ecologically grown”. We believe in sustainability and keeping our crops, our workers, our land, our water, and our community healthy.  We will never change our views on keeping up our organic practices.

We sell our ecologically-grown produce through CSA shares, at various local stores, restaurants, and also at the Ann Arbor and Chelsea Farmers Markets.

Richard and Deb, along with other farm crew who like to live intentionally, live on-site year round. Seasonal workers or interns join them for various parts of the year, living and working together.