Someday Farm started the first Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) program in Vermont in 1987. We've been family-owned and community-driven ever since.
Since 1983, our hillside farm has achieved great respect throughout New England for our business practices and community involvement. We process 3,000 pheasants, 1,000 roasting chickens, and 400 turkeys a year in our state-certified processing facility. On six acres, Someday Farm propagates over 100 varieties of organic vegetables and fruits. We also manage 120 acres of woodlot to our Certified Tree Farm status.
Someday Farm is a closed loop farm, with all soil fertility deriving from our compost. Our 500 range-running laying hens provide nitrogen-rich manure that feeds the heated compost windrows. Poultry processing residuals also add vital calcium, phosphorus, and other micro-nutrients to the compost. We collect many of our organic materials from the community, as well as from own poultry and cows, to create our compost which we then return to our vegetable and small fruit fields, as well as to our four greenhouses. This is what a "full plate" closed-loop farm looks like.
Someday Farm supports and partners with The Northeast Organic Farming Association of VT (NOFA-VT) to help bring agricultural education to children and adults within our community in many shapes and forms. Check out their website HERE to learn more about organic and local farming, and to find upcoming events!
Someday Farm is a closed loop farm, with all soil fertility deriving from our compost. Our 500 range-running laying hens provide nitrogen-rich manure that feeds the heated compost windrows. Poultry processing residuals also add vital calcium, phosphorus, and other micro-nutrients to the compost. We collect many of our organic materials from the community, as well as from own poultry and cows, to create our compost which we then return to our vegetable and small fruit fields, as well as to our four greenhouses. This is what a "full plate" closed-loop farm looks like.
Someday Farm supports and partners with The Northeast Organic Farming Association of VT (NOFA-VT) to help bring agricultural education to children and adults within our community in many shapes and forms. Check out their website HERE to learn more about organic and local farming, and to find upcoming events!
– who we are –
Scout Proft
Caretaker of Someday Farm. Scout has been called the “Alice Waters of the East coast.” Scout is well respected throughout the state both as an educator and as a farming authority. She received the prestigious Jack Cook "Farmer of the Year" Award at the NOFA-VT Winter Conference 2014, an accolade she richly deserves. Scout reluctantly leaves the farm to fulfill her responsibilities as a consultant to the Northeast Organic Farmers Association of Vermont (NOFA-VT) and to present various education workshops at local schools and community centers. Someday Farm has been in Scout’s family since the 1930s. She is the proud caretaker of two working English Shepherds and a small herd of milking Dexter cows which she works in her spare time. When not working, she is keeping track of her 5 children and her various adjunct children.
Eben W. Proft
Owner and proprietor of Woodbury Game Birds. Over the past five years, Eben has traveled the world seeking out and learning everything possible from the top game bird producers in Australia, New Zealand, Europe and North America. These travels culminated in being awarded the prestigious Diploma in Game Keeping at Sparsholt College of Hampshire, U.K. Eben is now solely responsible for the operation of Woodbury Game Birds in cooperation with Someday Farm. He is in charge of rearing over 4,000 pheasants and is just getting started.
Maria Buteux Reade
Operating Partner. Maria is in charge of compost operations at Someday Farm in addition to wearing many other hats on the farm. Her best days see her on the tractor, harvesting her beloved root veggies, or doing anything that counts as a hard workout. She served as Dean of Faculty and teacher of English literature at the Trinity-Pawling School in Pawling, NY for 27 years. She now writes for Edible Vermont, Edible Capital District, Blue Dot Living, and The Northeast Organic Farmers Association periodicals. In her spare time, she scopes out perfect painting spots for her artist / teacher husband, Ned. Maria and Ned live along the Battenkill River in Arlington.
Josh Mega
Someday Farm's secret weapon, Josh is everywhere all at once! He helps Scout and Maria with all manner of projects, chores, processing, tending animals, being kind to visitors, and just offering that perfect third set of hands when we need 'em! Josh has been part of the Someday family since 2016 back when he was a lad at Long Trail School.
Angela Saccamango
Dorset farm stand manager and Shareholder Coordinator. Angela is the organizer of everything farmstand. She works with Scout on Shares and works the phones. She interned at Someday Farm with her husband, Gregory, some ten years ago. Angela, along with Gregory and young sons Birch and Samuel, helps run the greenhouses, puts up food for winter, and cooks for the whole farm family.
Anders Proft
Head groundskeeper and pest control manager. Anders also runs the equipment, fixes everything that needs fixin', and is the ultimate behind-the-scenes farm operator. He is also the master of building bonfires. The farm could not run without Anders but we are psyched that he is now studying at SUNY-ESF (College of Environmental Science and Forestry) in Syracuse!
Supporting Members
Silas Proft - web design, content manager and project consultant
Luen Proft - web content manager and culinary adviser
Uriell Proft - nutritional consultant and recipe development
The Flett Family - farm system supporters