About Bee FRee FARm
WORKING WITH NATURE
Located in Marlboro New Jersey, Bee Free Farm is USDA certified organic and family operated.
Dedicated to sustaining honeybees and the world around them.
Fostering a symbiotic relationship nourishing our honeybees through the land they live on and pollinate.
Nourishing this relationship by creating a habitat teeming with fruit trees, flowering crops, sunflowers, and clover.
Sustaining the environment with organic, biodynamic and regenerative methods of farming that work with nature not against it.
USDA CERTIFIED ORGANIC
Everything we grow is USDA certified organic and non-gmo.
BIODYNAMIC
Biodynamic farming is working with nature, not against it.
•Growing in living soil provides a quality of health and nutrition not possible with chemical agriculture.
• Planting according to a biodynamic calendar avoids pests at certain times of the year and grows in harmony with earths natural growth cycles.
•We use companion planting and trap crops to either repel or attract insects.
•We use biodynamic preparations in place of chemical pesticides and fungicides.
•Biodynamic preparations foster the growth of beneficial bacteria and fungi which supports a healthy microbiome.
•We brew our biodynamic preparations by fermenting herbs, fruits, and vegetables.
•Biodynamic preparations are effective replacements for chemicals and they also act to restore nutrients and balance.
REGENERATIVE
Regenerative Agriculture is described as farming practices that rebuild organic soil matter and restore degraded soil biodiversity which in turn fights climate change by aiding carbon sequestration.
•Composted wood chips are beneficial to our practices on many levels.
•Soil organisms break down the chips, they convert nutrients into forms plants can easily absorb and create a humus that sustains soil quality and combats erosion.
•This healthy living soil draws down carbon from the atmosphere into the soil where plants utilize it!
•Composted wood chips also aid water conservation by retaining soil moisture and alleviate the need for irrigation.
•Another benefit of composted wood chips is weed suppression that mitigates the need for mechanical cultivation or chemical herbicides.
Generating our own fertility is accomplished through cover cropping, crop rotation and organic manure integration.
•Cover crops are also known as regenerative green manure. They add nitrogen back into soil after harvest.
•Green manure crops can add 100 lbs. of nitrogen/acre back into the soil. This feeds next seasons crops naturally without chemical fertilizers.
•Crop rotation also acts as all natural pest management solution, breaking the lifecycle.
•Manure from our free range and organically raised chickens is composted and integrated into the soil.
NO-GMO’s
Large scale commercial agriculture has turned to genetically modified seeds and plants to overcome pests and environmental challenges. Everything we grow is non-gmo.
ORGANIC RAISED EGGS
NO CORN. NO SOY.
Our free range chickens are raised on USDA certified organic, no corn, no soy, non-gmo feed since their beginning days as chicks.
FREE-RANGE
Free-range hens have access to a varied diet of plants and insects, which are an abundant source of natural proteins and amino acids. Foraging naturally provides eggs with more vitamin A, vitamin E, omega-3 fatty acids, beta-carotene, and lutein. Free range eggs also contain a healthier ratio of omega-6 to omega-3 fatty acids.
COLORED BY NATURE
Different chickens lay different colored eggs. We have carefully selected several different heritage breeds of chickens to lay a rainbow egg basket!
HERITAGE BREEDS
Heritage breed chickens are the livestock equivalent of heirloom vegetables. Heritage chickens are breeds that were raised in the 1800s before industrialized farms. Some heritage breeds are so rare that they are at risk of extinction.
HAPPY HENS
Free-range chickens are happy chickens. Their eggs contain a quarter to a third less cholesterol and a quarter less saturated fat than caged eggs.
LOCAL PICKUP
Pick up from:
Marlboro Farmers Market
444 County Rd. 520
Marlboro, NJ 07746
Food Emporium
460 County Rd. 520
Marlboro, NJ 07746
SHOU SUGI BAN
We do not use pressure treated wood that leaches toxic chemicals into the ground near the food we grow.
•We harvest rot resistant black locust poles from our farm for our trellis’ and fencing.
•Practice Shou Sugi Ban to weatherproof our wood naturally!
•Shou Sugi Ban is a Japanese method of waterproofing wood that uses no chemicals.
•Wood is burned until the surface is charred, and then coated with natural oil.
•Result is a scorched, charcoal black, all natural, weatherproof finish!
Why is Raw Honey Better?
Our raw honey is extracted from the
beehive and only strained, never filtered. It is unprocessed and never damaged by heat or pasteurization. This keeps the natural pollen, propolis and nutritious enzymes intact. Raw honey contains a wide variety of nutrients. One teaspoon of raw honey contains up to 48,000 grains of pollen. It has approximately 22 amino acids, 31 different minerals and a wide range of vitamins and enzymes. It also contains nearly 30 types of bioactive plant compounds. These are called polyphenols, and they act as antioxidants!
