Wellspring Forest Farm
Elizabeth & Steve Gabriel
6164 Deer Run Lane
Trumansburg, NY 14886
607-342-2825
email: farmers@wellspringforestfarm.com
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About us
Wellspring Forest Farm, managed by Elizabeth and Steve Gabriel, is a farm and homestead where we are committed to regenerating the landscape to be healthy, diverse and resilient. We believe that trees, forests, and animals form the base of a regenerative agricultural system. We actively promote the long-term health of our land with multifunctional species that benefit the ecosystem while yielding a variety of products.
In practice, we grow gourmet mushrooms (shiitake, oysters, lions mane, and stropharia), tap trees for maple syrup, garden annual and perennial veggies and fruits, plant trees as wind buffers, coppice material, food and fodder, establish ponds and waterways, and graze heritage breed animals (ducks, and soon pigs and sheep). Our work is inspired by the concepts, ethics and practices of Permaculture and Agroforestry. See our systems page for more details.
Our farm is perched on a Southwest facing slope in the small town of Mecklenburg, which sits almost exactly between lakes Cayuga and Seneca in the Finger Lakes region of New York.
Elizabeth is also a part-time Yoga teacher and prior to moving to Ithaca spent 5 years co-founding and directing Common Good City Farm, an innovative urban farm project in Washington, DC. She was raised in Rochester, NY.
Steve has lived in the Ithaca area for almost his whole life. He is co-founder of the Finger Lakes Permaculture Institute and also wrote a book on Forest Farming with Ken Mudge. He currently works for the Cornell Small Farms Program as Extension Agroforestry Specialist.
