Darlin' Corey Farm
Dig a hole dig a hole in the meadow...
We (Brody McAllister and Alison Devereux-Brosnan) began Darlin' Corey Farm in the fall of 2015. We have the desire to provide ourselves and our community with the freshest, healthiest and happiest food that we can possibly produce. Brody is deeply passionate about botany, permaculture design, herbalism and wild foraging. He has worked and lived on many farms across the country learning as much as he can each and every step of the way. After studying herbalism in Asheville, NC he decided to move back to his old family homestead and begin the journey of restoring it back to a healthy ecosystem. Alison has grown up with an agriculture and 4H background since she was young. She has raised poultry and dairy goats her whole life and has fallen deeply in love with the feeling of soil under her fingernails. She has the desire to connect her community back to a simpler and more sustainable way of living. Together we want Darlin' Corey Farm to be a representation of our passions for real food and an authentic life!
Darlin' Corey Farm produces naturally grown vegetables, mushrooms, herbs and fruits. While we are not certified organic, we practice organic methods. All of our seeds are certified organic and non-gmo. We make our own on-farm compost and fish emulsions and use mushroom compost to amend the soil. We have a BCS push behind tractor for breaking new land, but use a no-till approach to farming. This means that each new bed we make is only tilled once, and then year after year it is turned by hand to maintain the integrity of the soil. We integrate pest management solutions from homemade sprays to companion planting. At Darlin' Corey Farm we use cover cropping on fallow fields to avoid soil erosion and fix carbon and nitrogen back into the soil. Our goal is to use permaculture design techniques to eventually transform this homestead into a predominately perennial food forest.
Darlin' Corey Farm is located in Sparks, Maryland in the Belfast Rd valley. Our property originally was an old, one room schoolhouse homestead site owned by Brody's great-grandparents. The land being a mixture of wooded and field, allows us the opportunity to produce diverse crops that have different needs.
Our farm produces food for our CSA members, the Hereford Farmers Market and Chesapeake Farm to Table.
