ABOUT POPLAR RIDGE FARM

The 13 year development of Poplar Ridge Farm as a Community Supported Agriculture farm is a unique extension of the owners' personal adult lifestyles. The owners have been athletes involved in the organic food movement and advanced nutrition concepts since their teenage years! One of the owners, Marianne Battistone, is currently a health and fitness contributing editor to SELF Magazine. She has been a contributor to Conde Nast publications for 27 years. Marianne has been in practice in NYC and a lecturer, for 33 years to present, as a dance educator and specialist in injury prevention, treatment and care of dance and athletic injuries. She and her husband, Philip Norwood, always wanted to own a farm. In 1994, when Philip began working in Charlotte, NC, they chose to build their farm in Sandy Ridge Township, Union County, NC, just south of Charlotte.

Under their ownership, the land has been farmed in a sustainable, environmentally conscious manner. OMRI USA standards of organic farming are practiced for all crops.