Schenk Homestead Farm

Schenk Homestead Farm is a small, diversified farmstead focusing on growing vegetables with regenerative practices. We sell our produce year-round at the Brighton Farmers Market on Sunday's, a CSA program (22 weeks, June through November), at local restaurants and farm markets, and through direct-to-consumer sales.

Schenk Homestead Farm's mission is to make sure our farm improves the soil, biodiversity and our local watershed. These beliefs are based in regenerative agriculture and economic principles with a desire to sustain a cultural legacy of homegrown foods and services historic to Naples, NY. We feel a sense of obligation to preserve our beautiful and proud agricultural community for future generations which means always prioritizing our environment that provides these bountiful ecosystem services; including the food we eat. In practice, this includes using limited or no-tilling practices, integrated pest management strategies, cover cropping our fields to improve soil health and prevent erosion and planting diverse local variety crops. We also promote living soil health by not using any petroleum-based fertilizers and instead focus on feeding soil microorganisms through compost teas and applying a compost mix to all our garden beds.