While the Boston area was spared from the brunt of Tropical Storm Irene, she still managed to stir up some trouble for Land’s Sake, its staff, and its trees. If you’ve been to the farm stand over the last two weeks, you’ve probably noticed that we lost a large tree […]
Kelly Cammerota
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Right around the time the founders of Land’s Sake set their dreams in motion here in Weston, a like-minded group of folks in Cambridge founded Food For Free. A non-profit like Land’s Sake, Food for Free sought to connect families and individuals around Boston most in need of food assistance […]
As the farm education intern here at Land’s Sake, my summer has been dedicated to leading Green Power. From helping to coordinate daily activities with Doug Cook (Education Director) to scurrying around the farm making last minute preparations every morning, I have learned from experience how to carry out a […]
As I type this, our full time Monday crew (3) is harvesting garlic with volunteers (3), our weeding crew (4), educators (2) and their Green Power teen farmers (10!) That adds up to a very dreamy total of 22 harvesters! When we popped the garlic in the ground last season, […]
Land’s Sake’s Green Power 2011 program has made several significant shifts in design and goals from previous years. We now have full days, packed with amazingly unique variety of projects to engage these students(13, 14 and 15 year-olds) with the farm, the community and with each other. Our first week […]
With ferns and skunk cabbage creating a thick camouflage for the mud and stagnant water below, you breeze through the swamp–high and dry on a brand new 200-foot-long boardwalk. An old stone wall borders your walk on the right, lending an air of history and culture to your stroll. The […]
Hello! My name is Eliza Murphy. Growing food and its implications has been very important to me for a long time, and I owe a lot of that to the summers I worked at Land’s Sake. Currently I am not farming but focusing on my art practice, in which agriculture […]
by Assistant Grower Joseph Berman This week is the one year anniversary of my ordination as a rabbi. What did I do after ordination last summer? I’ll give you a clue: I followed in the tradition of my Biblical ancestors… I attached myself to the land and headed to the farm. After spending five years […]
When ever we get a request from a group to help us out on the farm, the first things that flash through my mind are logistics. Do we have the time, resources and the need for a mass of people to join us in the fields or forest? There are […]