MISSION
The Water's Edge is a small family farm, stable, and contracting service dedicated to three values:
LOCAL: Sourcing products and services as close to home as possible is the best way to support a vibrant community. It is important to know where and how the things we consume are produced. Whenever possible, we use local contractors, suppliers, and vendors with ties to our community. We depend upon the support of our neighbors. We sell our eggs locally, provide composted manure to local gardeners, and focus our contracting work in Sudbury and surrounding towns. We support causes like the Hop Brook Protection Association, Protect Sudbury, the Sudbury Historical Society, The Wayside Inn Foundation, and several local schools' parent teacher organizations that are important to our community.
SUSTAINABLE: Employing the most ecologically progressive and holistic methods wherever practicable benefits our environment, health, well-being, and future. We apply no artificial chemicals, fertilizers, or insecticides to our products. We feed our animals only natural feed, food scraps, and whatever they can forage on the range, and use every available practice to raise them humanely. We use high-efficiency bulbs, insulation, and fixtures to reduce electricity, gas, and water consumption. We reuse, compost, or recycle all possible materials. We maintain a geothermal heat pump system and a solar photovoltaic system, and purchase any remaining electricity required from 100% US-based wind farms, ensuring our energy consumption is carbon neutral.
FAMILY-OWNED: This land has been in our family for over 40 years. Originally part of a much larger agricultural parcel of Sudbury, it earned the name "Water's Edge Farm" due to its location on the banks of the Stearns Mill Pond. Although our family had always gardened and kept animals since arriving, it was Zachary Sulkowski, the youngest of the four sons of Adam and Elizabeth Sulkowski, that began the revitalization of the property into a functioning farm. It is in Zach's memory and in honor of his vision that we continue to restore and improve this land.