Our Farmer Partners
Our success as a fine food distributor is rooted in the relationships we have built with the hundreds of small farmers and food purveyors in Vermont, New Hampshire, New York, Massachusetts and beyond. To fill seasonal gaps, we have taken this same direct approach with California, Canadian, Florida and other regions, running direct trucks to get you the freshest produce and provisions at the best negotiated price. Read some of their stories here.
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Misty Knoll Farms • New Haven, Vermont
Family farmed, free range Vermont poultry that is hormone free, antibiotic free and vegetarian fed. At Misty Knoll Farms, turkeys and chickens are free to roam throughout spacious, specially designed turkey houses, with access to abundant feed, water and fresh air. Allowed to grow naturally to size, Misty Knoll birds are robust and meatier. As a result of this clean, stress-free environment, and a healthy diet that nature intended, Misty Knoll birds are healthier and better tasting. View Misty Knoll Farms items carried by Black River Produce.
Just across the river in Charlestown, New Hampshire stands Hemingway Farms with 90 sprawling acres of space to grow fresh fruits and veggies, herbs, shrubs, houseplants, and flowers. This local treasure also includes a seasonal farmstand where they display their own bounty as well as items from other local producers. Fortunately, there’s plenty to go around, so a portion of their plentiful harvest is also filling up the Black River Produce warehouse right before making its way to your kitchens, shelves, and dinner plates.
Happily located in the fertile Connecticut River Valley, Harlow Farm has been producing crops since the mid-1700s. Paul G. Harlow purchased the farm in 1917, and it has now been in his family for three generations. One of the largest and earliest organic-certified farms in New England, Harlow’s produces 150 acres-worth of veggies including beets, cabbage, carrots, kale, lettuce, sweet corn, and squashes. Some of that is sold through their seasonal farmstand, and some makes its way to you through their partnership with Black River Produce.
Sam Mazza Farm is a 350-acre farm full of festival fun, fresh produce, and adventure featuring a pair of corn mazes totaling 3 miles long. Just don’t get lost! You wouldn’t want to be late for their Blueberry Breakfast! Mazza’s corn and blueberries, along with a host of other produce items, can be found occupying the warehouse shelves at Black River as well as bursting forth from their on-site farm market. Their special events are held in a recently built 40x60-foot covered pavilion to the left of the farm market, and adjacent to their children’s playground. You can find a whole host of Sam Mazza produce products at Black River Produce as well as gorgeous poinsettias in December.