The first pickups for this fall’s CSA will take place on Tuesday, November 3rd and Wednesday, November 4th. CSA members, see below for our pickup schedule! Barre shareholders: Week 1: Tuesday, Nov. 3rd Week 2: Tuesday, Nov. 10th Week 3: Tuesday, Nov. 17th Week 4: Monday, Nov. 23rd Holden, Worcester and Princeton shareholders: Week 1: Wednesday, Nov. 4th Week

This week on the farm, we finally finished weeding the strawberries and transplanting the daughter plants to new beds. Our crew – including four volunteers from Trader Joe’s – brought the effort to its culmination with lots of energy and song. We have five beds now, all planted, mulched and well-organized for next season. Julie

This week Julie put a lot of time and fundraising muscle into the NOFA/Mass Human Health and Climate Action Challenge (with administrative support provided by yours truly). Daily video tips were created, posted to social media, and emailed out to a big list of supporters, friends and donors to previous NOFA/Mass events – and we raised

Farm life held a lot of high notes this week. One was the purchase of a goodly number of vinyl bags which we filled with sand. The crew put the sandbags down on the edges of the Remay that we’re using to protect a number of tender growing crops from the cold. Cathleen used this method in her previous work

This week, the crew pulled out the last of the tomato plants from the hoophouses, making way for a planting of spinach. Great progess was made on weeding the strawberries and populating next year’s beds with daughter plants. The asparagus finally got its second weeding and has been well-mulched with wood chips. Among the folks