Today on The Farm Report, Erin Fairbanks talks to Erin Grimley and Steve Blabac of the Root Down Farm. The Root Down Farm is located in western New York, serving the greater Buffalo area as a mixed-vegetable C.S.A. farm. Now in its second Year, the Root Down Farm has doubled its C.S.A. membership! Tune in to hear about how Erin and Steve met working on C.S.A. farms in the northeast, the some of the trials of their first season, and their future plans for the Root Down Farm. This episode is sponsored by Hearst Ranch.

"When I graduated I realized I wanted nothing to do with my marketing degree. I decided I wanted to put my efforts to some sort of non-profit endeavor...and I found farming." -- Erin Grimley on The Farm Report

"Because we had such a harsh spring last year, we're confident that we will be able to adjust to whatever comes our way this year instead of worrying about making the right decision." -- Steve Blabac on The Farm Report

This week Unfiltered welcomes Lucy Millner on the show who with host Erin Fitzpatrick founded Fork and Anchor a general store on Long Island's East End that provides a growing community of farmers and winemakers a meeting place as well as offering prepared foods, a variety of sundries, and a selection of homespun products, many of which have their origins in NY state. Tune in later as Erin calls in with some recipes and wine pairing for goats in celebration of Goatober and Heritage Foods USA's No Goat Left Behind initiative.

Matt Volz was born in Washington, D.C. and grew up in Cazenovia, NY and Philadelphia. He attended Middlebury College in Middlebury, VT, where he studied philosophy and began working on farms. In his junior year of college, he connected with a crazy couple from across Lake Champlain in Essex, NY. He worked with Mark and Kristin Kimball at Essex Farm (made famous by Kristen’s book, The Dirty Life) during his last two years of college and continued to work there for another two years after graduating. In 2009, he moved back to VT and worked on a few farms there before beginning a search for his own farm. In the Spring of 2010, he was introduced to Kaye Osbourne, and a few months later he moved back to Cazenovia to start the Greyrock Farm CSA.

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