The Story

So, why start a farm?

I started Lucky Cat Farm in 2025 to bring more vegetables into the local food system of my hometown, Niskayuna, and to the entire Capital Region. There are already a number of farms growing vegetables in our area that bring them directly to consumers - visit the Schenectady Green Market or Troy Farmers Market to check them out - but I saw that there was room for more.

Organic products only account for a small percentage of what's bought in our grocery stores, and locally grown produce accounts for an even smaller slice of our diets. In order to create a resilient food system that can feed us through whatever economic, climatic, or other crises that come our way, we simply need more farms doing things the right way.

Farming the right way means using sustainable practices to be able to grow on the same piece of land for generations, ensuring the health of the soil, water, air, and most importantly its eaters by never using herbicides or synthetic chemical pesticides or fertilizers.

Lucky Cat Farm is part of a movement of farms around the world that is the solution to the failures of our current chemical industrial agriculture system. By supporting Lucky Cat Farm or a farm like it, you are helping to create a future where our food system is centered on people and planet, not profit.

More about me (that guy ↑)

I'm Clark, I've been farming vegetables one way or another since 2018. I first learned the ropes on a 10 acre farm outside Boston, where we would bring our produce every weekend at a big farmers market. I fell in love with all of it: playing in the dirt, getting to know the bugs and the weeds, helping customers choose which variety of potato or kale was best for their dinner plans, and tuning my body to the changing of the seasons.

Since then, I've managed an aquaponics greenhouse (where we raised fish and grew plants using their waste as fertilizer) and a series of urban gardens where our customers would come and pick their own produce. I loved aspects of both of those settings, but I missed having a big plot of land and open sky without the sound of traffic coming off the road. My wife and I made the decision to come back to the Capital Region, and I was fortunate to find farmland south of Albany where I could start a farm of my own.

I'm just thrilled to grow food again this year and to bring it to you!