Now taking orders for our 2024 Summer CSA Share
Shares begin June 3, 2024 and run through October 20, 2024
Small, Medium & large sizes to choose from with a sliding scale option. We accept SNAP benefits and offer payment plans to make it affordable for all.
Upcoming Workshops:
Navigating the new normal- power equipment and implements on the farm and homestead.
- Saturday, May 11, 2024
- 9am-12noon with pot luck lunch
- Price: $50 – $100 sliding scale
- Presenter: Dave Petrovick with support from Jonathan Anderson
Are you confused on how to enter into the realm of tractors, implements and power equipment? There are many time and labor saving pieces of equipment available lately and with rampant sticker shock everywhere, how do you choose what to buy?
For those who have equipment already, how do I maintain it? Can I repair it? Should I repair it, or bite the bullet and upgrade? Interested in starting a new enterprise on the farm? What will I need?
We will discuss these and other subjects. I am a diesel mechanic, certified welder and farmer with 40 years of experience with agricultural and construction equipment. You’ll have access to insights and experience that will help you confidently delve into the world of power equipment, implements and tractors
Earth Day
/in Newsletter /by JenniferI was around for the first Earth Day. Our entire school walked around the back roads of Milledgeville, IL and picked up cans and bottles. And I spent that whole day with my history teacher, Tom Wiltshire, who was quite a renegade in that small midwestern town. In his class we debated such topics as […]
Hum for Humanity
/in Newsletter /by JenniferEveryone is talking about the big solar eclipse that is happening today. https://www.npr.org/sections/solar-eclipse/2024/04/04/1242568508/solar-eclipse-april-8-2024-watch – this website tells you what time it will be with you – looks like 3:23-3:33 for us in Barre. The Hum for Humanity folks – https://youtu.be/0RguQBgtmAc?si=ZqYE9jW8qG38BmYs -want us all to hum on middle C for the duration. Now, I think this is really cool. […]
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/in Newsletter /by JenniferWhen I stop to think about how to live fully in the world, I think of a cardboard box and how I can climb into it and close the lid from time to time. And how tight that can feel, and cut off from others and life itself. Spring is a really great time to […]