Bay Branch Farm Expanding in Lakewood

Lakewood-based just a got a little bit bigger.

To the tune of about 4,600 square feet. 

According to LoveLakewood.com, the backyard urban farm acquired the land at 2107 Robin Street from the city for $3,000.

The house on the property was demolished in 2010, not long after the city bought the foreclosed property for $24,000 from Fannie Mae, according to LoveLakewood. 

With poor soil quality, the owners — husband and wife team Eric Stoffer and Annabel Khouri — will build raised beds to grow their vegetables. 

They grow and sell all sorts. Here are a few: Arugula, lettuces, spinach, beets, kale, Swiss chard, carrots and garlic.

“Our food system is broken,” Stoffer . “When I think about growing food for people in my community, I get a real sense of purpose out of that — something very worthwhile.”

The couple launched their first urban market garden in the backyard of a home they own on Lark Avenue in 2009.

The following February, they bought the vacant property next door.

Stoffer said last year in an interview that Bay Branch was looking to expand.

“We want to be a farm in Lakewood, but we want more land,” Stoffer said. “We’re open to any options.”