Farm. Food. Community.
Our farm
We're a small farm in the northwest corner of Connecticut. We grow vegetables, herbs, maple syrup, honey, and mushrooms using organic, regenerative practices.
We care deeply about being part of and supporting our local community as well as the sustainable food movement.
If you are interested in learning more, we want to hear from you! Please contact us.
Our team
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Stephen Plumlee
CO-OWNER
Stephen has long been an active supporter of open space and farmland preservation as well as the sustainable agriculture, community farming, and local food movements in both urban and rural contexts. As a self-taught gardener, Stephen has also learned how not to grow vegetables, herbs, and fruit through 20 seasons of trial and error in the family summer garden. Stephen’s vision for Northwest Corner Farm is to create a modern and sustainable farm that produces the highest-quality food while also supporting and contributing to the local and global community.
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Holley Atkinson
CO-OWNER
Holley has been an advocate for good, clean, and fair food and agriculture for two decades, and an amateur cook and gardener her entire life. She’s a former board member of Slow Food NYC, and in her “day job” as a startup accelerator coach & mentor has worked closely with hundreds of global food & ag innovators. Holley has been frequenting the Northwest Corner since she was a child, visiting her grandparents in Winchester, and since 2001 as a homeowner here.
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Stephanie Ryder
FARM MANAGER
Stephanie grew up on a 5th generation family farm in East Hartland, CT. She has been passionate about growing and providing food for her family, friends, and neighbors for well over a decade. In her third year of turning her passion into a career, Stephanie is looking forward to having a positive impact on the health of the local community through sustainably producing the freshest vegetables.
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Adam Buggy
FARMER EMERITUS
Growing up in Connecticut in a family with deep farming roots in the midwest, Adam is the first in his family to “return to the land.” He has felt a calling to the outdoors for as long as he can recall. The natural world has greatly influenced who he is and he proudly accepts his role as a steward of the land. Being responsible for producing and acquiring his own food is something he feels a sense of pride in. Adam is committed to changing how people view and think about food, and wants to change our understanding of how food is grown, produced, harvested, raised and obtained.
Press
Republican American
April 2023
“Couple launches “crazy venture,” trading white-collar days to revive Winsted farm”
By Brigitte Ruthman
Norfolk Now
April 2023
“Supporting Local Farms: Lost Ruby Farm Has Found A Worthy Successor for Its Cheese-Making Business”
By Avice Meehan
Land Acknowledgement
It is with gratitude and humility that we acknowledge that we are farming, learning, speaking and gathering on the ancestral homelands of the Muhheaconneok or Mohican people—"People of the Waters that are Never Still"—who are the indigenous peoples of this land, and who have stewarded it throughout the generations. We thank them for their strength and resilience in protecting this land, and we aspire to uphold our responsibilities according to their example. Despite tremendous hardship in being forced from here, today their community resides in Wisconsin and is known as the Stockbridge-Munsee Community Band of Mohican Indians. We pay honor and respect to their ancestors past and present as we commit to building a more inclusive and equitable space for all.