Community Supported Agriculture & Event Floral Arrangements
Willoway Farm offers Community Supported Agriculture for our 18th Season! Our heirloom vegetables crops and herbs are grown selecting seed from small scale farms to continue that connection with small scale farmers and gardeners in our country. Through cover crops, crop rotations, aged manures and particularly crafted compost we ensure the fertility necessary for healthy , nutritious and robust crops. Our Bouquet Subscriptions include Specialty Cut flowers using a .ix of annuals, perennials, biennials and even our native florals. We recently planted a prairie field to add to ur already floriful garden for native pollinators. Winterspring Farm CSA in Newburg is offering our bouquet subscriptions to help spread our blooms further our flower reach further but our farm also distributes the bouquet subscriptions and Ozaukee area subscribers can sign up though our webpage shop.
You can also find our products through Ozaukee Area REKO Ring and West Bend Area REKO Ring on occassion. We offer opportunities for Flower Bars that can be brought to your destination or on our off farm Milwaukee Riverside Property in Fredonia. This year we also have plant starts for fellow gardeners. Contact us to book a time to create your art or capture a Willoway Moment.
Since 2016 we have hosted “Hipcamp Campers”- One campsite- 1 hilltop for your own privacy and enjoyment. Check out www.Hipcamp.com at “ Hilltop Orchard Campground” in Fredonia.. come enjoy the starry night at our farm!
Willoway Farm is a small family farm host to a diverse garden filled with Heirloom Vegetables, Fruits, Flowers north of Milwaukee in Ozaukee County. In addition we put our veggies, herbs, fruits, flowers and native plants into wedding and event floral arrangements. Our farm is dedicated to growing food & flowers with a minimal imprint on the earth, no toxic substances to aid growth, and no GMO used in seeds or fertility. We refuse the uses of herbicides or pesticides and continue to strive for beautiful healthy soil which in turns creates nutritious foods. We use organic, permaculture and some biodynamic principles when we garden. The farm is us two- Daniel and Jacqueline with our 13 year old Sam and 10 year old Summer. We establish our farm in 2007. Albeit we worked on the infrastructure of our farm in 2006 like the irrigation. We chose to start the farm from the ground up by designing, sowing the seeds, nourishing the land, creating and adapting the out buildings for our farm visions. Slowly but surely we now witness the fruits of our labor as the years go by. The 8 acre farm abuts a wetland & flowage of the North Branch Milwaukee River. The farm sits on a south slope of glacial moraine midway between gravely hilltop and overlooking the swampy bottom land below.
All produce and flowers are solely produced by us. The produce and flowers are grown on permanent raised garden beds hand shaped and hand fertilized yearly. Native plants are grown throughout the property. Hand tools and human power are our primary source of planting, harvesting and cultivation. We choose this scale of farming because it is what we consider is sustainable for us.
Farming in this manner adds to our quality of life, quality of produce, flowers, eggs and quality to our environment surrounding us. We practice permaculture and some biodyanmic strategies which influences our decision to manage the farm as a single biodiverse ecosystem. We select native florals to grow such as elderberries bushes and hazelnuts. We prefer growing diverse heirloom flowers and vegetables which in turn preserve small farms and the bounties of nature. We encourage birds and beneficial insects habitats throughout the farm for instance our bluebird houses in the garden. We are home to a young apple orchard where each tree was grafted every spring since 2007. We chose our preferred rootstock and heirloom apple and pear scionwood .
Jacqueline creates floral arrangements for our Flower Bouquet CSA and various Weddings and Events incorporating not only the flowers, but the herbs, vegetables, fruits and other native foraged materials. In addition Jacqueline has successfully completed a excelerated college course in Horticultural Therapy and soon will offer activities connecting plants with people.
We believe organic growns flowers , herbs and heirloom vegetables have the power to connect us to our joy, the wildness of the natural world, to our community and to our ancestors.
We are passionate about cultivating community and connection through flowers, and believe that the plants around us have a vital role in rooting us to home. I hope to share joy and love with you through my seasonal botanical offerings.
Please join us in our adventure to grow, create and sustain our vision and our farm.