This coming year, we are excited to introduce a new model for firewood sales that will align our program more closely with Land’s Sake’s mission of connecting people to the land. Since 1980, Land’s Sake has been sustainably managing portions of Weston’s town forests and supplying cordwood to the greater […]
Sustainable Land Managment
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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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Weston is blessed with some 2,000 acres of protected conservation land, including farmland, forests, and open fields. To help preserve this great resource, over the last several years Land’s Sake has been working on behalf of the Community Preservation Committee and the Conservation Commission to maintain several of Weston’s open […]
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 […]
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 […]
Merely a month ago, the world looked a lot different than it does today. Our sugar house was fully engulfed in drifts, our logging crew was trudging through waist deep snow, and spring seemed very very far away. For those of us who love a good old-fashioned New England winter, […]