Breadseed Fram is a one acre small scale, no till, regenerative vegetable and cut flower farm in the Northeast Kingdom of Vermont. The farm is owned and operated by Doug Wolcik and Kayleigh Boyle.

We operate on a well that we upgraded to get 20gpm with 65 psi. Our acre of field crops are watered by mainly by overhead, while the greenhouse and caterpillar tunnels have drip irrigation. We have one frost free hydrant for the greenhouses and wash/pack in the winter.

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Doug Wolcik and Kayleigh Boyle - We each will be entering or 18th season of vegetable production in 2026. Seasonally we two full time and one part time field crew and market assistants.

Doug graduated from the University of Massachusetts with a degree in Sustainable Agriculture and went on to apprentice on a farm in Northern California before embarking on WWoofing opportunites in South America. When returning to the Boston area, he accepted a assistant manager position at under, now partner Kayleigh Boyle. There he farmed and managed Gaining Ground, a non profit farm for the next eight seasons. Kayleigh studied at Emerson College in Boston and graduated with a degree in Marketing for Social Change before accepted a posiiton at a non profit farm in Massachusetts. She was on the farm staff for 2 years before being promomted to manager where she managed the farm for the next 6 seasons. Four of which, with her now partner Doug. After 8 season at the non profit Kayleigh decided to switch it up and manage the vegetable portion of a farm table resturant. On both of these farms both Doug and Kayleigh saw incredible and immediate success after transitioning the farm to no-till. With increased success year over year. This inspired the couple to embark on purchasing land in Vermont and starting a farm of their very own. This was the conception of Breadseed farm.

Doug manages crop planning, finances, soils, farm design and layout, growing in the high tunnels while Kayleigh manages the cut flowers, CSA, greenhouse and crew. They each manage their own farmers market and work together on the day to day management of the farm. Kayleigh very much approaches the farm from an artistic lens and allows for improvisation while Doug steers more towards a scientific approach and structure.

The big motivating moment for us was back in 2016 when we started to transition the farm we were managing to a no till permanent bed system. We first started trialing these methods in a high tunnel and during that first season we immediately saw improved results in higher yields, less weeds, less disease. Over the next two seasons we transitioned the rest of the farm, 3 acres worth into no-till production. The amount of success we had over the next four seasons gave us confindence to start a business- it felt that this style of farming could be both evironmentally and financially sustainable.. So, in 2020 we bought our land after looking for a couple years and moved up to start our farm for the 2021 season.