Our Vision

That’s A Plenty Farm & Pollinator Habitat is situated in the floodplain of the Connecticut River in Hadley, MA. Only 72 ft. wide by 1/4 mile long, this farm is one of many strips sized as the amount of land one ox can plow in a day (in an earlier time).

We are Michael and Cathy Katz, both of retirement age, beginning our 18th summer of farming. Our family supports and inspires us in this project; three generations contribute to the farm. Our son, Josh, works the berry orchard and maintains the greenhouses. Our daughter, Jenny, does our web design. Our grandson Isaac designed the farm logo and our grandson Emerson works the farm during summer breaks.

We are proud that an article about our farm was the cover story for the November 2016 issue of ACRES USA, an eco-farming magazine. Read the article here.

On May 31, 2022, Cathy was interviewed on the Farm to Fork radio program, hosted by Jessica Tanner of Valley Free Radio WXOJ. Listen here.

These are the essential questions of That’s A Plenty Farm:
• How much is enough?
• What does it mean to have a secure future?
• What would it entail to become contributors to the system, giving back more than we take?
• How can we, on our three acres, work to heal the planet?

We hand farm, and build soil. We grow compost, follow protocols to grow nutrient-dense food, and save seeds. We believe in permaculture and perennials. We installed a small solar array. We downsized. We moved to a community where we can ride bikes or walk for work and errands. We aim to grow nutritious food for a family of 6 through 4 seasons in New England (unheated greenhouses). We are learning to need less. To aim our energies at healing the planet. To learn cosmic rhythms.

In 2011, we discovered the resources available through the USDA’s Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS), through which we received grants to establish the first NRCS-funded pollinator habitat in western Massachusetts. Now in our eleventh pollinator habitat year, we are proud to share seeds from our habitat, and our perennials are mature enough that we now also sell native, not-sprayed plants to local customers.

We wish our leaders would lead us all in making a transition to sustainability.