Grassfed Gardens
Elizabeth harvesting potatoes with the broadfork
Location: Indian Valley & Quincy, CA
Farmers: Elizabeth Powell
Contact: (530) 284-0985, e.powell(at)yahoo.com
Crops Grown for High Altitude: Potatoes, Beets, Sunchokes, Snap Beans, Pea Shoots, Winter Squash, Snap Peas, Green Onions, Cabbage, Kohlrabi, Sunflower Sprouts, Turnips and Zucchini
Grassfed Gardens is a multi-site farm operated by Elizabeth Powell and Cody Reed. The garden has been growing at Thompson Valley Ranch’s picturesque historic garden site since 2007, and has recently expanded to property on the north side of Thompson Valley and the suburbs of Taylorsville. The garden was named after the pasture-raised bovines at the ranch, as well as the copious quantities of lawn clippings that are used on-site for composting.
Grassfed Gardens was Elizabeth’s first endeavor into running her own market garden, and was the testing grounds for Community Supported Agriculture here in Plumas County. With a modest 7 members during their first season, they toed the water of this CSA farming system and found that they quite liked it. Seeing that there might be real potential for the CSA idea to take off, Grassfed decided to invite more growers to work with them, and launched the multi-producer High Altitude Harvest CSA in 2010.
Grassfed Gardens has been happily scaling up veggie production as High Altitude continues to grow. Elizabeth and Cody are now in the process of developing a larger farm site in Quincy in order to spend as much time as humanly possible on the farm.
Farmers: Elizabeth Powell
Contact: (530) 284-0985, e.powell(at)yahoo.com
Crops Grown for High Altitude: Potatoes, Beets, Sunchokes, Snap Beans, Pea Shoots, Winter Squash, Snap Peas, Green Onions, Cabbage, Kohlrabi, Sunflower Sprouts, Turnips and Zucchini
Grassfed Gardens is a multi-site farm operated by Elizabeth Powell and Cody Reed. The garden has been growing at Thompson Valley Ranch’s picturesque historic garden site since 2007, and has recently expanded to property on the north side of Thompson Valley and the suburbs of Taylorsville. The garden was named after the pasture-raised bovines at the ranch, as well as the copious quantities of lawn clippings that are used on-site for composting.
Grassfed Gardens was Elizabeth’s first endeavor into running her own market garden, and was the testing grounds for Community Supported Agriculture here in Plumas County. With a modest 7 members during their first season, they toed the water of this CSA farming system and found that they quite liked it. Seeing that there might be real potential for the CSA idea to take off, Grassfed decided to invite more growers to work with them, and launched the multi-producer High Altitude Harvest CSA in 2010.
Grassfed Gardens has been happily scaling up veggie production as High Altitude continues to grow. Elizabeth and Cody are now in the process of developing a larger farm site in Quincy in order to spend as much time as humanly possible on the farm.
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