About Schooner Farms
The idea behind Schooner Farms was to take our little 20 acre corner of the world and expand our use of it by raising organic pick your own raspberries and blackberries in 2009. We already had a natural pond and lake management company, Inspired By Nature, established at the site. The focus of Inspired By Nature is to encourage pond owners to care for the water resources naturally and by using little if no chemistry at all. This notion of land stewardship and conservation was really the incentive of trudging forward into the berries. honey and now a CSA.
In 2010 we also began a CSA (Community Supported Agriculture) garden. The response has been tremendous. We have had the opporunity to meet so many wonderful and like minded people. Naturally, we picked a rough year weather wise to begin but it ought to make the future garden season seem less difficult! Schooner Farms CSA grows food for 60 families and provides a wide variety of fall red raspberries and summer blackberries. Along with the produce we also have 10 beehives that we harvest raw honey from for sale. Our three ponds are managed naturally and a full of healthy fish. The ponds provide the irrigation to our fields.
Our goal is to be able to offer classes on a variety of topics, such as: beekeeping, canning, organic gardening, nature crafts, land ethics and much more. We both enjoy learning and sharing with others - that connection to like minded people is something we cherish.
If you are in Weston, Oh please stop in! We'd love to show you around the farm!
Schooner Farms & Inspired By Nature from above
News and blog
BG Farmer's Market
Posted by Don Schooner or Becky White - Schooner :: Saturday, September 4 :: 3:13am
Donnie & I spent last evening at the BG Farmer's Market selling honey. It was a GREAT time! We saw lots of people we knew and met several new people. Thank you to all who bought some of our honey, we hope you enjoy it!
We were so happy to see so many people supporting local farmers and artisians. What a great venue and it really makes you appreciate small town living. Our good friend, Penny Parker was kind enough to share her booth with us. Penny is one of the many people who are responsible for organizing and putting together the Farmer's Market - and they do a fabulous job!
Donnie spoke at the Exchange Club this week and was happy to see so many people he knew from his days at Klotz's. The Club had asked lots of great questions and seemed to enjoy the talk.
Today I'm working on getting more honey bottled up and I hope to be able to work in my studio for a little while today - I'm feeling creative.
