Echo Farm

This summer I had the beautiful experience of working at Echo Farm - a small-scale diversified farm located in Essex, NY. Echo Farm is operated in conjunction with Farmstead Catering, which is an agribusiness that focuses on the production of food from seed to table. Through regenerative agricultural practices Echo Farm emphasizes the cyclical notion of sustainability - using every output as an input to both fortify the flavor of the menus they produce and care for the land around them.

I became drawn into the world of sustainable agriculture when I began realizing where my food was coming from. I never gave it a second thought until I recognized the meat I was eating came from a CAFO (confined feeding operation) where animals were pumped with antibiotics and didn't have room to walk, and the vegetables were probably already weeks old, covered in pesticides and chemicals. As I dug more into the realm of agriculture I wondered how a system that’s supposed to ‘feed the world’ is inherently making us all sick.