Family farm raising pork, poultry, lamb, beef, and eggs, with a Meat CSA and farm store in Boylston, MA.
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Tougas Family Farm
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Second-generation pick-your-own fruit farm with a farm store, bakery, and orchard with over 30 apple varieties.
Tougas Family Farm is a family-owned, pick-your-own fruit farm founded in 1981 by Maurice and Phyllis Tougas, who bought 53 acres of orchards. A neighboring property added in 2001 brought it to nearly 90 acres. The farm grows strawberries, sweet and tart cherries, blueberries, blackberries, peaches, nectarines, pumpkins, and over 30 apple varieties on more than 40,000 trees, including hard-to-find types. Visitors can shop the farm store for fruit, jams, honey, and baked goods, eat at the farm kitchen or weekend grill, and enjoy ice cream, apple cider donuts, and a beer and hard cider garden. A barnyard, playground, wagon rides, and seasonal events round out the visit. The farm has been under the Massachusetts Agricultural Preservation Restriction program since 1986, and three generations of the Tougas family live and work on the property.
Tougas Family Farm practices Integrated Pest Management (IPM), a system the farm helped develop with the UMass Agriculture Department beginning in the 1980s. IPM focuses on assessing and addressing the source of insect and pest problems rather than reacting to them. Specific methods include hiring scouts to monitor and count pest populations, using sticky traps to capture and manually count insects, planting disease-resistant varieties, deploying beneficial insects and pheromone-releasing techniques, producing and applying compost as a soil amendment, cover-cropping to rebuild soil health and prevent erosion, drip irrigation for efficient water use, and regular orchard mowing and debris removal. The farm also uses organic pesticides when they are determined to be the best and safest option for a given application. Three generations of the Tougas family live on the property, making safe farming a personal priority alongside the well-being of pick-your-own guests.
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