Welcome to Cottingham Farm
We have organic produce, organic-fed pasture-raised chicken, eggs & heritage pork
Our certified organic produce, and pasture-raised, heritage, strictly organic-fed chicken, pork and eggs are available a la carte to the public at the farm year-round. Hours are Tuesdays 3-6pm, Thursdays 4:30-6, and Saturdays 9-12. You can also find our yummy food at the Saturday morning Easton and St. Michaels farmers markets April through November. We are on the menu at Out of the Fire, Perry Cabin, and other restaurants which feature fresh, local and sustainably produced ingredients!
Welcome to Cottingham Farm
We have organic produce, organic-fed pasture-raised chicken, eggs & heritage pork
Cottingham Farm Store
Our certified organic produce, and pasture-raised, heritage, strictly organic-fed chicken, pork and eggs are available a la carte to the public at the farm year-round. Hours are Tuesdays 3-6pm, Thursdays 4:30-6, and Saturdays 9-12. You can also find our yummy food at the Saturday morning Easton and St. Michaels farmers markets April through November. We are on the menu at Out of the Fire, Perry Cabin, and other restaurants which feature fresh, local and sustainably produced ingredients!
Isn’t it time you ate real food?
Need for Change
The current food supply system in Maryland, as in much of the country, is broken. American farmland is dominated by low value, heavily subsidized, synthetic pesticide and fertilizer-reliant corn and soy designed to be fed to confined animal feed operations (“CAFO’s”). So in a region surrounded by farms and farm land, our state, like others, still imports 90% of its produce from an average of 1,500 miles away. Our goal here at Cottingham Farm is to play a small part in changing that. We can create a resilient natural resource based economy that grows clean, regeneratively raised healthy food for Marylanders and for a regional foodshed. And we can store tons of carbon in the soil while we are doing it!
Our Vision
We believe food should be nutritious and sustainable. We believe organic farm practices is the best way to achieve that. Maryland’s Eastern Shore which lies in the Chesapeake Bay watershed provides a unique opportunity. There is a rich agrarian history and reputation in our community; why import our produce when we can grow nutritiously dense, healthy produce locally. That’s why we grow our produce using organic methods, with no synthetic fertilizers, pesticides, or herbicides, and using tastier heirloom varieties which are disappearing from our plates.
A Beautiful Setting
Cottingham Farm runs along the banks of the Goldsborough Creek and touches Chesapeake Bay. We have installed on the Farm over fifty acres of Conservation Reserve practices including an eighteen acre wetland which is a habitat for teal, black duck and other disappearing native waterfowl; thirty acres of warm season grass buffers around all fields to prevent water, sediment, nitrogen and phosphorous runoff as well as provide habitat. Thirty five acres of woodlands and 30 acres of fields surround our year-round passive solar high tunnels.
What does it mean to be USDA Certified Organic?
Organic growers like us are not permitted to use synthetic fertilizers or synthetic pesticides like neonics (which kill our pollinators), chlorpyrifos (which damages developing brains), or atrazine, or synthetic herbicides like glyphosate. All of these chemical inputs will be banned one day, but right now they are still being used by many growers to produce conventional strawberries, beans, apples, broccoli and. other otherwise healthy foods.
Summer Recipes
We are dedicated to improving your healthy food standards.