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craft & place

Grafted Roots Farm is a grower partnership born from a shared belief that exceptional produce starts with exceptional care — for the land, the crop, and the people who eat it.

Our Story

Two growers,
one farm

Grafted Roots Farm started with a simple question: what would it look like if two growers pooled their strengths and held themselves to the highest standard on every crop? Founded in 2026, the answer is a partnership between Freddy M. Pena and Erik Jewett — two people with different backgrounds in agriculture who share one conviction: that local food should be extraordinary, not just available.

Freddy brings the precision of controlled-environment agriculture through his sister operation, Bright Oasis Farm, which grows hydroponic leafy greens, herbs, mushrooms, and microgreens year-round. Erik brings deep experience in direct-to-market farm production and specialty food through Fat Daddy's Apiary. Together, they created Grafted Roots as the shared storefront for a combined vision: fresh, flavorful produce grown with intention and delivered with care.

We operate out of Chestnut Hill Farm in Southborough, Massachusetts — a 250-acre historic working property under the stewardship of The Trustees of Reservations. The land gives us space, heritage, and accountability. Farming on conserved land means everything we do is visible, responsible, and rooted in the community.

Our focus is narrow by design: microgreens, gourmet mushrooms, hydroponic greens, herbs, and select seasonal produce. We don't try to grow everything. We grow a focused selection of crops and we grow them as well as they can possibly be grown. Every variety is chosen for flavor, freshness, and purpose — not shelf life or shipping distance.

Whether you find us at the farm stand, through our CSA, or in a restaurant dish, you're getting produce that was harvested days — not weeks — ago. That's the promise, and it's the reason we do this.

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Chestnut Hill Farm, Southborough MA
How we work

Principles that
guide every crop

We don't grow everything. We grow a focused selection of crops and we grow them as well as they can possibly be grown. These are the convictions that shape every decision we make on the farm.

01

Freshness First

Our produce is harvested to order whenever possible. Days-old means days-old to us — not weeks. That commitment to freshness is the foundation of everything we do.

02

Flavor Over Volume

We are not trying to be the biggest farm. We are trying to grow the best version of each crop we produce. Yield is always secondary to quality.

03

Direct Relationships

We sell directly to the households and restaurants who use our produce. No middlemen, no distributors. That directness makes us accountable to the people who matter most.

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Chestnut Hill
Farm

Chestnut Hill Farm is one of the most historic working farms in Central Massachusetts — a 250-acre property in Southborough that has been under cultivation for well over a century. Today it is managed as both a working farm and a conservation landscape by The Trustees of Reservations.

Operating here grounds us in something larger than our own enterprise. The land has standards, the institution has standards, and those expectations make us better farmers.

Chestnut Hill Farm is managed by The Trustees of Reservations, Massachusetts's oldest and largest private land conservation organization, protecting more than 120 properties across the Commonwealth.

The Partnership

Two farms,
one vision

Grafted Roots is a joint venture between two independent farming operations, each bringing specialty growing expertise to the partnership.

Bright Oasis Farm →

Year-round controlled-environment agriculture operation specializing in hydroponic leafy greens, herbs, gourmet mushrooms, and microgreens. Founded in 2024 and operated by Freddy M. Pena. All mushrooms and microgreens at Grafted Roots are grown by Bright Oasis Farm.

Fat Daddy’s Apiary

Hydroponic leafy greens during winter and local honey year-round. Operated by Erik Jewett, Fat Daddy’s Apiary extends Grafted Roots’ growing season with controlled-environment greens when the field is dormant, and supplies raw local honey from hives across the MetroWest region.