Harland's Creek Farm-Certified Organic
Harland's Creek Farm, LLC is a certified organic farm located four miles west of Pittsboro NC. All our flowers, herbs, vegetables, and fruits are certified organic. The farm is operated by Judy Lessler, Erasmo Flores, and Rene Rios. Judy started the farm with her husband in 1999. After many years working on the farm, Erasmo and Rene became partners in 2016.
We sell our products at the Durham Farmers Market on Saturdays and Wednesdays. Visit the market's web site for more information. We are also at the Apex Farmers' Market. We operate two CSAs, our Tuesday CSA wiht deliveries in Raleigh, Chapel Hill, and Pittosboro and our Durham Collaborative CSA with deliveries at the Durham Farmers Market. See the CSA tabs for more information and to enroll. And we also sell to local restaurants, mainly: Poole's Downtown Diner, and Death and Taxes in Raleigh, Tazza Kitchen in Raleigh, and The Boot, Maeto Bar de Taps, and Geer Street in Durham. These are the all topnotch places with excellent chefs. We are particularly in awe of Ashley Christensen who leads a great team of chefs in multiple sites.
You can buy directly from us. Please send an e-mail to hcffarmers@gmail.com or call Rene at 919-200-2794 for more information.
The Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations writes “…organic [methods] …are increasing soil organic carbon by [transferring] large amounts of CO2 from the atmosphere to the soil … enhanced carbon sequestration, coupled with additional biodiversity…organic agriculture [has] potential for mitigating and adopting to climate change. From http://www.fao.org/organicag/oa-specialfeatures/oa-climatechange/en/ January 29, 2017.
We farm organically--to protect our staff, our customers,
and our world.
Join us in our mission.
Cooking--Farming--Thinking
Why Harland's Creek Farm is Organic
Posted by Judy Lessler :: Wednesday, February 1 :: 10:22am
We farm organically to protect:
our staff--our customers--our world
The following quote from the Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations says it all: “…organic [methods] …are increasing soil organic carbon by [transferring] large amounts of CO2 from the atmosphere to the soil … enhanced carbon sequestration, coupled with additional biodiversity…makes organic agriculture [has] potential for mitigating and adapting to climate change. From http://www.fao.org/organicag/oa-specialfeatures/oa-climatechange/en/ January 29, 2017.
We are doing our part to save the earth.
Join us in our mission
Judy started HCF. She develops meal plans for the CSAs, maintains our web-site, and writes our blog. You can meet her most weeks at the Durham Farmers Market on Wednesday and Saturday.
Erasmo worked part time on the farm for years, He became a partners in 2016 and lives in Siler City. You can meet him at the Saturday Durham Farmers' market on alternate Saturdays. He is active in all aspects of the farm, is our main tractor guy, and is transitioning into doing the book-keeping.
Rene has been full time on the farm since 2012. He works on all aspects of the farm, receives and delivers restaurant orders, and does most of the deliveries. This is Rene with two of his children in front of his house.
We are a great team.
