ABOUT MANY HANDS ORGANIC FARM
Many Hands Organic Farm (MHOF) grows certified organic produce, meat and eggs in Barre, MA (Baystate Organic Certifiers and the Real Organic Project). MHOF has been in existence since 1982 and has been selling to the public since 1985. We are highly diverse, no till, and focus on high quality and nutrient density through practices supporting maximum photosynthesis.
Please help us to meet our goal to provide 16 CSA shares for Worcester Community Fridges. This year we have an anonymous donor is putting up a $1:$1 match to any donations that are made to MHOF.
Announcing the publication of our book:
This is a memoir of our lives and sometimes risky decisions. We relate our early years, meeting and raising kids, and building the farm, the organic movement and a healthy community. We didn’t always go along with what most Americans were doing, especially in the areas of diet and health care, employment, debt and consumerism, energy use, and culture. In this book we explain what we did, why we did it, and how it turned out. We hope it is both entertaining and helpful to people wanting to fashion a purposeful life.
– Jack and Julie
Order your book directly from us by sending a check of $29, which includes shipping.
Make check payable to MHSC, 411 Sheldon Rd., Barre MA 01005. We will mail a signed copy of the book to you. $12.50 of your order goes Many Hands Sustainability Center.
“This book offers a window into living a life of meaning, rooted in integrity, values, critical thinking, and persistent effort. . . . [ Jack and Julie] have also shown me and so many others how to love across difference, how to tell the truth, and what it is to live well.”
Julie Rawson and Jack Kittredge
co-owners of Many Hands Organic Farm
Photo by Oliver Scott Snure
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
Join us Saturday to discuss Risky Decisions
/in Newsletter /by Christy BassettJanuary 25, 2020 Dear Friends and Customers of Many Hands Organic Farm, Though we did spend some time this week buying more black bags, filling them with sand by banging the tractor bucket against the frozen pile to shake it free first, and battening down the hatches of the tarps that had so elegantly blown […]
Had We Known in 2015 What We Know Now…
/in Newsletter /by Christy BassettJanuary 18, 2020 Dear Friends and Customers of Many Hands Organic Farm, This week has had a definite “silage tarp” focus. Over Thursday and Friday we successfully covered about 34,000 square feet with silage tarps, in some cases first putting down a preparatory spray of molasses, microbial stimulants and fish, and in others, putting down […]
Our friend Bryan O’Hara says this upcoming week is the coldest of the winter
/in Newsletter /by Christy BassettJanuary 11, 2020 Dear Friends and Customers of Many Hands Organic Farm, It has been a fun week. We were able to finish up making the lard for the year and also used up all of our cabbages that were laying around to make sauerkraut. During the winter particularly, lacto-fermented foods are super beneficial for […]