Tussock Sedge Farm is located on State Route 113 near the village of Blooming Glen in Upper Bucks County, Pennsylvania. The farm has been run by Henry and Charlotte Rosenberger since 1990. A few facts about the farm are:

• The farm consists of 450 acres in multiple tracts that surround the village of Blooming Glen. In 2001, we preserved more than half of the farm (284 acres) permanently as open space in the Bucks County Farmland Preservation Program. We protected an additional 140 acres in 2007.
  
  
• In the News: Henry & Charlotte Rosenberger of Tussock Sedge Farm receive the Heritage Conservancy 2010 Business Leader Conservation Award.


• Our PRIMARY FOCUS at Tussock Sedge Farm is growing exceptional grasses for natural birthing and rotational grazing of cows and calves, as well as finishing our red angus beef totally on grass.  Our finishing cattle will be on pastures of grass and legumes for 7-8 months of the year and fed quality hay during the winter months to support their growth.  Essential minerals and salt are fed year round.  We do not feed growth hormones or prophylactic antibiotics to our cattle.


• Our CONSERVATION GOALS are maximizing forage growth with natural manure and compost, improving grasses and controlling weeds by high density grazing.  
  
  We do this by:
  
  -- Rotating the cattle every 1-3 days to a  new grass paddock
  -- Providing natural nitrogen to the soil through legumes of clover and alfalfa
  -- Eliminating the use of pesticides, herbicides or chemical fertilizers on our fields
  -- Protecting the soil with field terracing, pipe outlets and riparian fencing along streams

• Eighty four acres of Tussock Sedge Farm are in a Forrest Stewardship Program written and approved in 2009 to manage the woodlots on a 130 year cycle of growth and harvest.  Of these 84 acres, 26 acres represent permanent wetlands, designated in 2005 for wetland restoration for wildlife.

• WILDLIFE is abundant around the farm:  deer, fox, coyote, blue heron, blue birds, wild turkey, red tailed hawks and other species are common.  The wetlands are only mowed once a year to control weeds, and this is done only after the meadow nesting of birds is completed.  After not using Roundup herbicide for 5 years, the tree frogs have come back.

• Blooming Glen Farm CSA, with farmers Tom Murpha and Tricia Borneman, resides on 22 acres of our farm.  2010 marks the fifth year of the CSA’s existence, and it now has 230 members.