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Shannon J. Brines

What's New?
  • Check the Brines Farm Blog

  • January 2008 The Ann Arbor Observer Meet the Locavores
  • November 2007 Compostable Times, page 5, Know Your Farmer
  • October 13, 2007 The Farmer's Marketer Know Your Farmer at Brines Farm: Haps in the Hoophouse
  • March 14, 2007 Green Options blog, DIY: Cold Frame
  • February 26, 2007 Teeter Talk interview
  • February 14, 2007 Green Options blog, "Getting Local Food"
  • November 20, 2006 Ann Arbor News story (as PDF)
  • November 10, 2006 Detroit Free Press story (as PDF)
  • Resources for how-to grow your own veggies even in a co ld climate.
  • Brines Farm video submitted to Convenient Truths: a green video contest and moves on to second round.


    Look currently for Brines Farm:
  • Thursdays 3-7pm at the Westside Farmers Market (in the Zingermans Roadhouse parking lot)!
  • Saturdays at the Ann Arbor Farmers Market (Look for our stall in the central mini-market "sand-lot" area... typically Brines Farm, Zingermans Creamery, Pilar's Catering, Hannewald Lamb and more!)

    Currently offering freshly harvested: arugula, red russian kale, summer salad mix (various lettuce, some asian greens, beet greens, etc.), spinach, mustard greens, turnips, and some delicously sweet carrots, all authentically grown in our hoophouse (passive solar greenhouse) in Dexter, Michigan. Our heirloom and specialty produce will be likely arriving in August: tomatoes, peppers, beans, cukes, zukes, and more.

    Support Local (Sustainable) Agriculture! First and foremost, we're in this because we like great food. As a business we're not worried about being big, only great. For example, we think you will not currently find fresher and better tasting arugula in the Ann Arbor area and that alone is the reason you should buy ours. The fact that we for example use no fossil fuels to heat, cool, or ventilate our hoophouse and that we are part of the local economy is just icing on the cake (dressing on the salad?). If you need more reasons, try these 10 Reasons to Buy Local Food (or these alternate ten reasons) with which we wholeheartedly agree.

    Recipe Ideas || Informational Resources || Brines Farm Blog






    We don't have our own real-time online weather station at the farm. This one appears to be the closest, about 2.5 miles away, so provides approximate weather conditions at the farm.