Yearly Archives: 2009

Just like an old-time Tavern! Smiling faces, clinking glasses and plates full of farm-fresh local gourmet delights! Last Thursday we held the first Land’s Sake Supper Club at the Josiah Smith Barn in Weston Center. Chef Sam Hunt prepared a feast using local and seasonal food. A crowd of about […]

We had a great volunteer day on Earth Day, April 22 when we put about 2,000 shiitake mushroom plugs into fresh cut oak nursery logs. We had a couple other small projects and a good group of volunteers came out to help. A reporter from the Globe came and talked […]

  The visitor coming to the farmstand one still summer morning takes in the blaze of color in a field of flowers next to the road. A few women and children move slowly through the rows cutting stems. In the morning haze before the heat of the day sets in, […]

Well, the dozen plus Baldwin apple trees on Concord Road were long overdue for a major haircut. They were planted at least twenty years ago by Brian, an old-time Land’s Saker, and nobody can remember the last time they were pruned. Needless to say, they were looking unruly. Last year’s […]

This week we began preparations for our Shiitake mushroom project. Doug, our mushroom guru, and I spent Friday felling oak trees on a small woodlot in the back of the farm and cutting out logs of 3′ long and 4″ to 6″ in diameter. We plan to plug at least […]

There’s something incredibly gratifying and beautiful about watching an area of forest transform from from a dense stand of trees into a series of long wall-like stacks of firewood.  The process really is a work of art.  Over the past two months Land’s Sake has been hard at work harvesting […]

Skidding whales (trees, actually) is like blowing bubbles with a bubble wand. You never know what you’re gonna get. Tree work is a lot of fun. The process of harvesting Land’s Sake firewood starts with a careful inventory of the trees in the Town Forest. Brian, our expert (and a […]

The sugar house is a magical place at any age, but especially when you are no taller than the evaporator and the steam is streaming off the surface like special effects at magic show. When I bring a group into the sugar house, we take a minute to absorb all […]

After only the first day of the program, the Green Power Maple participants had learned the ropes of sugaring and had taken over the jobs of collecting, filtering and dumping the sap on our daily collections around town.  Although I see this often as I work with kids, it still […]

A reporter from the Globe called last week wondering what us farmers do with ourselves in the winter. We’re actually pretty busy, I assured her. Reviewing last year’s harvest records, figuring out the planting plan for the coming season, ordering seeds, fixing equipment, splitting wood from the town forest, and […]