Our Summer CSA is ending on September 26, but you can still sign up for our Extended Fall CSA Share share for the next four weeks.  The Immune Booster box has been replaced by our Tantre Farm Produce box for the remainder of these last four weeks of the Fall Share, but will start up again in December.  We will take a break from all CSA boxes in November, except our Thanksgiving CSA distributed on November 21 (save the date: registration coming in the next couple of weeks).

All upick berries are over for the season at HoneyBee U-pick.  Even though it was not a very strong year for berries this year at HoneyBee, our farm stand will continue to be open on Saturdays lush with fall produce and pumpkins until October 25 from from 8AM-12PM.  We will update our website if anything changes. Please note: The really GOOD NEWS is that the new roundabout at Zeeb and Scio Church Roads is now OPEN!!!  

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.  a