About THB Farm
At Turkey Hill Brook Farm, we are committed to sustainability, using non-toxic and earth-friendly landscaping practices to grow our own, pesticide-free plants and produce. We feed our gardens, lawns and pasture with rich compost produced from our own chicken and horse manure, fall leaves, veggie garden waste and kitchen scraps.

Rocky & Sneaks, key members of our compost crew:



The strongly-scented foliage of marigolds planted in our veggie beds helps repel pests! This is called companion planting, in which certain plants help each other to control pests and enhance growing conditions. Companion planting helps your garden become a balanced ecosystem, in which nature keeps itself in balance.


We are registered by the National Wildlife Federation as Certified Wildlife Habitat #71074, which means that our farm supplies food, a water source, shelter and nesting sites for a variety of wildlife: 

Pictured is our vegetated buffer along a stream that flows from the farm into Turkey Hill Brook. Planting shrubs and other plants on the edge of streams and ponds prevents soil erosion and acts as a natural buffer to help keep the water clean. This is especially important on farms such as ours, where nutrients from animal manure can pollute the groundwater. Our streamside buffer also provides safe habitat for turtles, whose populations are at great risk in Massachusetts due to shrinking habitat and road mortality. 

One of the benefits of natural habitat gardening is that there are always flowers enough to share - vases brimming with blooms are pure joy in late summer.

We're also certified as a Monarch Waystation, growing milkweed plants to help bring back Monarch butterflies after recent population declines: