About Us
Stony Hill Farm is a farm located in South Pottstown. It’s run by Bing and Abigail Houston and our aim is to provide diverse, healthy and sustainably raised food to our community by getting back to the basics. Using strategies and techniques that respect our land, our plants, our animals and even our microbiomes, we strive to provide you with high quality produce and other products you can enjoy and trust.
Our Mission-
To provide food that is affordable and nutritious to our local community.
Through incorporating traditional and modern farming techniques with the goal of conserving our soil, water, and local ecosystems.
To raise our family to have a meaningful relationship with nature, farming, and each other so that responsible farming practices are preserved.
Our growing practices-
We see our farm as a living ecosystem and like any ecosystem, it starts from the soil up.
Healthy soil makes healthy crops- Through crop rotations, the use of cover crops, green manures, composted livestock manure, nitrogen fixing legumes, and organic soil inputs we promote biological soil activity. Thus ensuring that the land will stay productive for generations to come.
Eliminating “modern” chemical reliance- We realize in modern times we have become over reliant on synthetic inputs in the vast majority of food production. We work at identifying and addressing underlying issues to restore and promote long term soil health instead of using chemical inputs to temporarily “Band-Aid” problems.
Diversity, diversity, diversity!- Agricultural biodiversity not only protects the farmer from crop failure but it reduces instances of pest pressure and disease; encourages and preserves natural biodiversity; balances and in some cases enhances ecosystems; and performs ecological functions such as capturing atmospheric carbon, protecting top soil from erosion, and conserving water.
A piece of our story-
It is crazy to think back to when Bing worked long hours as a dealership auto technician while I (Abigail) stayed home caring for the kids and missing him like crazy! Living life so separately wasn’t what we had dreamed of when we had gotten married and started a family, though we had no idea what life lay ahead for us! We were growing a lot of our own food at the time and had started to dream about a farming life. In 2016 Bing left his job at the Kia dealership and we decided to jump feet first into this new adventure. It has been an incredible journey of learning! It has been by far the most difficult yet rewarding choice we have made and we can’t imagine a better life of togetherness for our family.
Abigail
