Reber Rock Farm is a family farm on the southern edge of the Reber Valley in Essex, NY. We raise Pasture Raised Organic Chicken, Pasture Raised Pork Fed Organic Grain, 100% Grass Fed Beef and Maple Syrup. We offer curbside pickup on the farm, sell at local farmers markets and can deliver to your door both locally throughout the Adirondacks, or regionally including delivery to NY, VT, NH, ME, MA, CT, NJ, RI, DE and Eastern PA.
Custom poultry processing available on farm from
June to October annually
the team
We are a diversified farm, whose farmers seek diversified livelihoods: humanitarian assistance, graphic design, draftwood, African crafts, life coaching and more.
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Racey Henderson
Racey HendersonRacey’s is Reber Rock's CEO focusing on strategy, vision and organization, as well as anything else that needs to be done! She is also a humanitarian professional focused on training for practitioners supporting farmers preparing for and recovering from crises of all kinds. She has worked on livelihood issues during peace and crisis globally since 2000. Learn more about her other work at SEADS.
In 2017, she co-founded Ndara an African textile company now shipping domestically and internationally from Reber Rock.
Nathan Henderson
Nathan HendersonNathan is Reber Rock's Chief People and Performance Officer focusing on how all systems on the farm fit together for maximum mutual benefit and reciprocity. He is a trained life coach, leading classes and coaching one-on-one in mind-body awareness and life transformation on and off the farm. Nathan began his farming career in his mothers garden, but found producing food as a profession while working in California as a geotechical engineer. When not farming Nathan loves playing music, exploring the Adirondacks with his family and climbing. He received his certification as a life coach from the Somatic Coaching Academy in 2023.
Chad Vogel
Chad VogelGwen and Chad Vogel own 30 acres adjacent to RRF and co-manage Reber Rock with Racey and Nathan. Chad, a Natural Woodsman, manages the woods, breeds Suffolk Punch draft horses, manages the sugar bush, manages cattle, does chicken slaughter, and fixes things.
Visit Reber Rock Draftwood page to learn more about horse logged flooring & restorative forestry.
Gwen Vogel
Gwen VogelGwen and Chad Vogel own 30 acres adjacent to RRF and co-manage Reber Rock with Racey and Nathan. Gwen manages cattle and the sugar bush, does chicken slaughter and graphic design (the mastermind behind all RRF's labels and logos).
Visit her graphic design website: gwenjamison.wixsite.com/design
Past Farmers
To all the folks who have helped us get to where we are today, thank you.
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Gints AldinsPast Farmer
Gints AldinsPast FarmerGints worked full time at Reber Rock for 2014 and 2015. He is currently WOOFing in Washington state, but we know he'll be back sooner or later.
Resident specialist on backgammon, etymology, meta ethics and all things Latvian..
Emily HoffmanPast Farmer
Emily HoffmanPast FarmerAdirondack Semester Intern #3
Emily worked at Reber Rock in December 2015, and took some wonderful photos that you'll see on this site and in the farmstore.
She is the creator of Artisantotable.com a wonderful tribute to farmers and their reasons why.
Caitlin KellyPast Farmer
Caitlin KellyPast FarmerCaitlin Kelly worked for us in the winter of 2014, our second Adirondack Semester Intern, and a trooper in the cold!
Klair NevinsPast Farmer
Klair NevinsPast FarmerKlare was our first Adirondack Semester Intern in 2013, and got us hooked on these fabulous folks. To our joy, we then got her back for the summer of 2015.
Sara KingPast Farmer
Sara KingPast FarmerShe's now starting her own farm in Westport, NY, makes sauerkraut, and runs a food truck, Poco Mas Tacos. Check out her website: kzfarmny.com.
Jesse HaddenPast Farmer
Jesse HaddenPast FarmerJesse worked at Reber Rock Farm in 2013 - our starting year. He then decided to head home to Montana to establish his own operation closer to family and home-country. He's now farming 110 acres in the Mission Valley, outside the small town of St. Ignatius, MT.
is new farm's website is www.lowerxingfarm.com.
Follow him on Instagram: @lowerxingfarm
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Justine Morrison aka Pepper!Past Farmer
Justine Morrison aka Pepper!Past FarmerPepper worked at Reber Rock Farm in 2013. She arrived by bike, lived in a shed, walked barefoot and smiled a lot despite the chaos.Links to External Media
Reber Rock Farm's submits regular photo journals - called Fotofeeds - on The Essex on Lake Champlain Website. Below are links to each fotofeed.
2016
All the pasture is a stage. This is Shakespeare in the raw. Brian Mann, North Country Public Radio
Artisan to Table. Emily Hoffman, photographer2015
How One Farm Saved Essex, Eatting Well Magazine
Fotofeed $7 - A way to live2014
Young farm startups go back to the land, Ideas.Ted.Com
Got Dinner Plans in 2015? Meet Reber Meat
Fotofeed #6 - Tis the Season for Change and Growth
Fotofeed #5 - Getting Ready for Sugar2013
Fotofeed #4 - Year In Review
Fotofeed #3 - Season's Changing
Fotofeed #2 - June in July
Fotofeed #1 - Just getting startedPRINT
Adirondack Explorer Magazine, March/AprilIssue 2014- Anew crop of farmers (cover story)RADIO
Nathan Henderson "Drafting a Future", a radiostory by Lauren Ober, summer 2012TV
Fox5 - local NYC news (1:41), Reber Rock Farm's maple syrup takes a sail to NYC on Ceres, the Vermont Sail Freight Project's bargeVIDEO
Barn Building, by Shax Entertainment
Combine/First Sunflower Harvest, by Shax Entertainment
Turkey video of our amazing fun Pastured Turkeys!