Rustic Outlook

Rustic Outlook Farm is a small farm in Belchertown, MA. We do almost everything by hand, including harvesting and shelling. What this means for our customers is: fewer broken beans, less debris and an overall cleaner final product. As you prepare our beans, you’ll notice the difference in quality, which is created by the loving attention we can give each plant in our small-scale operation.

Since 2020, we have been growing dried bean varieties that are suited to our New England climate. Farmer Heather McCann created Rustic Outlook Farm to express her passion for sustainable food systems, which work within the ecosystem while providing access to regionally appropriate fresh produce.

Rustic Outlook Farm uses organic and regenerative farming techniques, and protects the soil from excessive deep tilling. The best produce comes from feeding the soil rather than the plants, so we take special care to keep the soil healthy, using only OMRI-approved amendments to improve the texture, organic matter and nutrient content of the soil. We think you’ll agree that this approach isn’t just ecologically responsible… it also produces some of the tastiest food you’ve ever eaten!

Read our CISA Valley Bounty article here: https://www.buylocalfood.org/valley-bounty-rustic-outlook/

Rustic Outlook uses organic and regenerative methods, including cover cropping/green manure, crop rotation/diversification & fallow periods, locally-sourced composted manure & organic soil amendments, and minimal, primarily shallow, tilling.

Belchertown Farmers Market

In 2024, Rustic Outlook Farm introduced a dried bean CSA, with a one-time pickup of a share of dried beans. See details at our website (https://www.rusticoutlookfarm.com). We were proud to have sold out for 2024, check back in early fall of 2025.