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 […]
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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 […]
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 […]
Land’s Sake is one of the greatest things about Weston. I have long believed this since ‘discovering’ it during my third year as a Weston resident. Driving by the farm one warm May day, I decided to enter the long driveway to poke around and see what the wooden farm […]
In early April I attended The Farmer Project Seasons Workshop at Appleton Farms in Ipswich, MA. In two nights and two days of workshop programming, I experienced an outpouring of hospitality. I was well fed and cared for by gracious hosts, and it rubbed off on me that welcoming guests […]
It has been nearly two months since I started working as a farm-based education apprentice at Land’s Sake. Two days after moving into the Melone House I got a call from Doug telling me I was parked in front of our neighbor’s garage.” I ran up the driveway to move […]
After spending all day Friday in the maple sweat lodge that we call the Sugar Shack, I am afraid that maple season is drawing to an end, and as a farmer often does throughout the year, I feel slightly thwarted by nature. As most of New England eagerly awaits the […]