ASLF’s 2023 Farm Roster!
Dear ASLF Supporter,
Since the founding of ASLF in October of 2021, there has been an outpouring of support for our mission to fully fund young adults to work on sustainable farms and also from new farms to be part of our program. We are so honored to be working with these heroes of agriculture and leaders in the nation for healthy land and food raised with dignity. In only a few short weeks we have grown to over 40 farms and counting who will host more than 75 apprentices, but this is just the tip of the iceberg. In time we intend to grow to thousands of farms and apprentices, transforming the face of agriculture and the lives of the next generation of change makers, all in Anne’s name! Please help make this happen by donating here.
2023 NEW Host Farms
Catskill Wagyu — Ulster County, NY
Catskill Wagyu at Hilltop Farm is a small family farm in New York's Hudson Valley. They use sustainable farming practices to work as they raise pastured Wagyu beef. Every one of the 50 cows were bred, born and raised on Hilltop Farm.
Deep Rooted Organics — Westby, WI
Deep Rooted Organics is a Certified Organic farm, supplying the greater La Crosse area with fresh, local, organic tomatoes and produce. They are dedicated to their community, and environment and use their resources for the betterment of both.
Firefly Farms — Accident, MD
This northern Appalachian Farm founded in 2013 specializes in goat and cow’s milk cheese and will be hosting apprentices to learn the art of raw milk.
Florence Fang Community Farm — San Francisco, CA
Florence Fang Community Farm sits on the land of the former Diana Street Farm, the last operating farm in San Francisco, active until the late 1980s. The one-acre farm is located on top of a functioning Caltrain tunnel and is surrounded by single-family homes and a dense population of diverse residents.
Harlem Grown — New York, NY
Located in the heart of Harlem, planting fruits & vegetables and growing healthy children & sustainable communities.
Ice House Farm — Goshen, VT
Ice House produces goat cheese and probiotic yogurt. The farm’s goal is to build a healthier environment with a more robust surrounding ecosystem. They do this by adaptively grazing a herd of dairy goats moving them to new pastures each day.
Lively Run Dairy — Interlaken, NY
Lively Run Dairy is one of the longest operating commercial goat dairies in the country, beginning production in New York in 1982 and pioneering goat cheese in the American marketplace.
Love is Love Farm — Mansfield, GA
Love is Love cooperative farm is a resilient, equitable, worker-owned cooperative farm providing produce, flowers and seedlings for the community with transparency and integrity.
Metro Atlanta Farm — College Park, GA
MAU Farm believes everyone deserves access to affordable high-quality produce. Their produce is certified naturally grown and harvested with care by the hands of staff and volunteers who support an equitable food distribution system. They provide gardening and agricultural training to ensure families learn to feed themselves and to create future generations of urban agriculturalists.
Neal’s Yard Dairy — London, England
Legendary Neal’s Yard Dairy is dedicated to a sharp focus on cheese— on finding, selecting, maturing and selling the British and Irish cheeses they like best. Their mission is to improve British cheese but their leadership in the dairy community puts them at the top of the pyramid of artisan cheese culture in the world.
New Leaf Agriculture/Multicultural Refugee Coalition — Austin, TX
New Leaf Agriculture trains and employs refugee farmers from traditional farming cultures in dignified work that reconnects them to farming in their new communities.
Ohio City Farm — Cleveland, OH
OCF welcomes thousands of visitors each year and stands as a successful model for mission driven businesses and is powered by The Refugee Response. As an initiative of TRR, Ohio City Farm nourishes the community with local food and empowers resettled refugees in Northeast Ohio by providing them with employment and training.
Queens County Farm Museum — Queens, NY
QCFM is one of the longest continually farmed sites in New York State, dating back to 1697. A New York City Landmark and on the National Registry of Historic Places, it is NYC’s largest tract of farmland.
Radicle Apple — Saxton River, VT
Working in tandem with the Vermont Foodbank, RAF is committed to understanding their role in a sustainable ecosystem that begins with promoting a healthy and thriving orchard and ends with fresh fruit, packed with care and delivered into the hands of Vermont’s food insecure population.
Real Food Farm — Baltimore, MD
Real Food Farm works toward a just and sustainable food system by improving neighborhood access to healthy food, providing experience-based education, and developing an economically viable, environmentally responsible local agriculture sector.
Red Hook Farms — Brooklyn, NY
Red Hook Farms is a youth-centered urban agriculture and food justice program operating one of Brooklyn’s largest farms.
Rogue Creamery — Central Point, OR
Today Rogue Creamery cheese can be found at cheese counters and restaurants nationwide, and in many countries around the world – including the UK, EU, Australia, and Japan. They’ve gone organic, become a Certified B Corporation and been honored with the title of “World’s Best Cheese."
Snug Harbor Cultural Center and Botanical Garden — Staten Island, NY
SH Farm is a 2.5-acre production farm that uses sustainable, low-till farming practices that focus on building soil health through the use of compost, crop rotation, intercropping, cover cropping, and other indigenous growing practices.
Southside Community Farm — Asheville, NC
SCF in Asheville has been “Growing Black Food Sovereignty in Asheville's Southside Neighborhood since 2014.” SCF’s primary location is a 0.36 acre plot located in Southside Neighborhood, one of Asheville’s historically Black communities.
Star Route Farm — Charlottesville, NY
As a farm with a social justice mission, SR seeks to begin addressing systemic food inequities by farming with integrity and responsibility, to both land and people, in order to grow nutritious food, so that they can distribute free produce to those who are food insecure all the while collaborating with the communities they grow for to ensure culturally relevant food is produced.
Urban Growers Collective — Chicago, IL
Urban Growers Collective is a Black- and women-led non-profit farm in Chicago working to build a more just and equitable local food system. They aim to address the inequities and structural racism that exist in the food system and in communities of color. Rooted in growing food, their mission is to cultivate nourishing environments which support health, economic development, healing, and creativity through urban agriculture.
Villa Villekulla — Barnard, VT
Villa Villekulla Farm takes its name and inspiration from the ramshackle home of the original flame-haired independent spirit, Pippi Longstocking. As such, it is a one-woman operation founded by Lauren Gitlin and her retinue of ruminant colleagues that seeks to embody playfulness, whimsy and superhuman strength in crafting wildly delicious goat milk based dairy products.
2022 Host Farms Participating in 2023
Anishinaabe Agriculture Institute — Ponsford, MN
Ten apprentices had a life changing experience apprenticing at AAI for a month last summer, working under the tutelage of the great Winona LaDuke, to build infrastructure on their various farms that fight for Native American food sovereignty.
Big Picture Farm — Townshend, VT
Producers of award-winning goat caramels from a closed herd of free-ranging goats who are treated like family, BPF also makes cheese on their lovely property in Southern Vermont.
Blakesville Creamery — Port Washington, WI
A farmstead goat cheesemaker located on the shores of lake Michigan and led by Veronica Pedraza (Anne’s first employee), an apprentice here will learn the ins and outs of operating a respected goat dairy farm while caring for the herd.
Brooklyn Grange — Brooklyn, NY
Founded in 2010, BG is the leading rooftop farming and intensive green roofing business in the US, operating the world’s largest rooftop soil farms. Their rooftops total 5.6 acres and produce over 100,000 pounds of organically-grown crops per year.
Consider Bardwell Farm — West Pawlet, VT
CBF is a vertically-oriented operation, from the casting of seed on the land to the sale of cheese at market including their award winning Pawlet, Rupert, and Dorset Minis, among other cheeses.
Good Shepherd Poultry Ranch — Lindsborg, KS
GSPR is the last hatchery producing non-commodity breeds of turkeys and chickens and America’s last chance to have farms re-populated with diverse breeds of historic poultry. It is also the site of a museum and center for the public that has been under construction since 2020.
Jasper Hill Farm — Greensboro, VT
Perhaps America’s largest and most acclaimed artisan dairy, JHF played host to 5 apprentices in our first year and will host 6 in 2023, thus continuing a connection with Anne Saxelby that started when Anne first opened her cheese shop more than 15 years ago.
Mad River Valley — Waitsfield, VT
Ploughgate Creamery, the Von Trapp Farmstead and Mad River Taste Place have joined forces to give an apprentice a once-in-a-lifetime experience to work at a butter dairy, at one of the best farmstead cheese operations in the country and at one of Vermont’s premiere stores that celebrates food from the region!
Meadow Creek Dairy — Galax, VA
MCD is a seasonal grazing dairy producing award-winning raw milk artisanal cheeses in the Blue Ridge Mountains. Their seasonal raw milk means no two cheeses are exactly the same.
Newman Farm — Myrtle, MO
A beautiful farm in the Ozarks, NF raises the oldest line of Berkshire pigs in the nation and is leading the way in humane pasture-raised practices that should be an inspiration to the entire industry. Their pork has never lost a taste competition and is sold at hundreds of America’s best restaurants.
Our Core — Newburgh, NY
Our Core is a non-profit organization dedicated to serving marginalized youth in Newburgh with a mission to uplift through experiential and academic education through their various urban plots.
Paradise Locker Meats — Trimble, MO
PLM is on the cutting edge of ethical and humane processors in the U.S. and is the center for the nation’s heritage and rare breed renaissance, processing thousands of breed specific pigs, and hundreds of steer, lamb and goat each month.
Sky High Farm — Ancramdale, NY
100% of the food produced on-site is donated to community partners in their collective effort to achieve long-term solutions to food insecurity. The farm is a center for artists and also for promoting food sovereignty in the region.
Spring Brook Farm — Reading, VT
SBF covers 1000 acres and is home to 100 registered Jersey cows, and a cheese operation focusing on Alpine cheeses including acclaimed Tarentaise and Reading. They also operate the City Kids Foundation, an outdoor agrarian classroom for kids from urban centers.
Stony Pond Farm — Fairfield, VT
“I am overwhelmed with a sense of gratitude and fulfillment…to spend a month in Vermont on this beautiful farm…” — 2022 Apprentice Hattie Hill who, under the tutelage of artisan Melanie Webb, helped care for the cows and produce Swallow Tail Tomme, the farm’s signature cheese.
Talbott & Arding — Hudson, NY
One of the Hudson Valley’s most celebrated and amazing stores, a literal world site museum for the traditions and culture they showcase from this agricultural region, T&A hosted one apprentice in our first year and will be hosting two lucky apprentices in 2023 who will learn the trade and work on local farms.
Thanksgiving Farm — Sullivan County, NY
An apprenticeship at TF includes living on the Center of Discovery grounds which provides food to hundreds of residents who suffer from complex conditions such as autism. The farm encompasses 300 acres of organic acres producing fruits, vegetables, herbs and livestock.
Upland Cheese — Dodgeville, WI
Alpine-style cheese making has no greater ambassador in the U.S. than Uplands Cheese which produces only two cheeses, both in the summer, from a herd that grazes on the summer grasses of this gorgeous farm that hosted two apprentices in 2022.