Mohawk Valley Featured Farm: Bowterra Farm

This time of year offers so much in the way of fresh fruit and vegetables along with other forms of local produce. With so many growers and producers throughout the valley, you can easily visit a farm store or farm stand within a short drive from your home. This week, we’re excited to share our featured Mohawk Valley Farm – Bowterra Farm of Fort Plain, NY.

About Bowterra Farm

Bowterra Farm is a unique and beautifully diverse farm growing a wide variety of fruits, vegetables, herbs, and medicinal plants using permaculture principles including food forests, no-till soil management, and humane livestock care. This minimizes the amount of maintenance work, increases the food’s nutritional value, and supports a wide variety of wildlife.​

In their own words,

At Bowterra we are farming the way nature intended. We use sustainable and regenerative practices to grow delicious food, support the development of diverse local ecosystems, and create healthy soil for future generations. Among our unique offerings are our permaculture orchard, bee hive therapy house, organic mushrooms, and humanely raised livestock. We are cultivating an inclusive community by supporting other local farmers and neighbors in adopting sustainable and regenerative practices. We love the farm and we want you to love it too!

What you’ll find here

Bowterra Farm grows a diverse variety of fruits, vegetables, herbs, and medicinal plants using permaculture principles including food forests, no-till soil management, and humane livestock care

They raise chickens, ducks, rabbits, geese and quail with love and care. They openly graze throughout the orchard and provide us with natural pest control and nutrient-dense fertilizer.

Bowterra also offers unique farm experiences such as farm tours, kids a garden walks, hive therapy house and onsite events.

Bowterra Farm Specials

• Book a session in our hive therapy house and meditate with the bees https://www.bowterrafarm.com/book-online
• Organically grown oyster and lion’s mane mushrooms – $7 per pint or 3 pints for $20
• Humanely raised and processed meats including duck, rabbit, quail.
  • Duck- Whole $8.00/lb,
  • Duck- Breast $20.00/lb
  • Duck- Legs/thighs $11.00/lb
  • Duck- Wings $10.00/Pack
  • Rabbit- $11.00/lb
  • Quail- 2 for $25.00

Did you know…

Out of 27 fruit varieties that grow in our region’s climate, we are growing 24. Visit the farm and see how many you can find!

The most productive areas of our farm’s landscape are the edges, which we maximize as walls of large plants filled in with smaller plants below, in order to increase productivity and wildlife habitat. The farm is home to many incredible species of wildlife including flying squirrels, marble salamanders, barn owls, butterflies, snakes, otters, hummingbirds and frogs.

The world’s healthiest soil is full of mushroom mycelium, so growing mushrooms is a win-win for us. Not only do we harvest delicious mushrooms, but with the spent mushroom growing material we create the best fertilizer possible for our orchard.

How to find Bowterra Farm

Visit Bowterra Farm at 253 Calbet Rd, Fort Plain, NY 13339 where you can find all their products available. They can be found at the Troy waterfront farmer’s market, every Saturday from 9:o0 a.m. – 2:00 p.m.

Thanks so much to Bowterra Farm for all they do to offer local produce raised right here for all of us in the Mohawk Valley!

Visit Mohawk Valley Farms for the best produce

We love the region’s farms and farm stores and the dedicated families who operate them to produce the best locally grown products to feed and care for our families!

Learn more about Mohawk Valley Farms and Farm Stores right here on Mohawk Valley Today!