Nature's Route Farm

Owners

Kent and Ruth Coates

History

Kent and Ruth Coates, grow a wide variety of great tasting vegetables and lamb on their beautiful farm overlooking the New Brunswick / Nova Scotia border. Their vegetables and lamb are grown ethically, sustainably, and responsibly. Since 2007, they have sold most of their organic vegetables as CSA (Community Supported Agriculture) weekly vegetable boxes. Their CSA members purchase a ‘share’ of the harvest bounty and choose 6 and 10 different vegetables from a market style pick up throughout the season.

Description

Kent and Ruth purchased the farm they operate in 2002, it was rented while Kent worked as an engineer in Canada’s Navy until the Fall of 2006. Giving up professional and successful careers in 2006 to farm full time, Kent and Ruth Coates started Nature’s Route Farm in the Spring of 2007. They started with 1.2 acres of vegetables, 75 laying hens and 3 ewes and have grown to 4 acres of vegetables and they currently have 38 ewes. Since then they have grown a successful farm business that includes growing and selling vegetables and lamb. While they intended to grow vegetables and sell them directly in their community, their business quickly evolved into a full fledged “Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) farm.

(CSA)

Their clients or “CSA members” purchase a produce package for the season. The package is paid for either at the beginning of the season or in installments and the “members” pick up their produce weekly from June until January at central pick-up locations in Sackville and Amherst. Their business has grown from 28 member families to 180 in 4 seasons.

Where sold

Sackville Farmers’ Market every Saturday