What’s Happening!
Children’s farm education courses this Spring
Again this Spring, we partnered with The Farm Education Collaborative to bring excellent pre-school, home-school and after-school programs to Crimson & Clover Farm. Read More
Florence Organic Community Garden (FOG)
plot registration still underway
After our community garden’s successful first year, we have doubled our size in 2013. Registration for garden plots has begun, but there are still more to lease! Read More
We make food and land accessible and affordable
Thanks to GFN, dozens of low-income households qualified for low-cost community garden plots, farmshares, and youth farm education programs. Read More
Boston Globe Sunday Magazine features our farm
Grow Food Northampton is featured among several green initiatives in Northampton. “The farm isn’t just a “defense against climate disruption,” it’s a unifying force. “There are so many positive aspects to the project,” {Lilly Lombard, Executive Director} says. “It gets people physically active, eating good food, talking to their neighbors, and actively preparing for an uncertain future by strengthening their resource base. All contribute to what I would call community resilience building.” Read Article
Sawmill Farm Collective joins our farm family
Grow Food Northampton welcomes Sawmill Farm Collective, a brand new farm business operated by Kevin Korb and Susan Pincus. As GFN’s very first “Market Plot” lessee, Sawmill Farm Collective is growing medicinal herbs and gourmet salad mix intensively on 1.5 acres of our South Field, right on the corner of Meadow and Spring Streets. Farming organically in the Pioneer Valley since 2008, Susan and Kevin met working at Red Fire Farm, one of the Valley’s most successful vegetable farms. Currently you can find Kevin and Susan’s salad and herbs at Evolution Café , Cup & Top, and the Haymarket Café in Northampton/Florence, and at the Wednesday farmers market in Florence. Sawmill Farm Collective is also offering one of the Valley’s only medicinal herb CSAs. www.sawmillcollective.com.
Slow Tractor Farm–growing grain at the Farm
Last spring, Grow Food Northampton signed a three-year lease of it’s 10-acre “East Field” to Slow Tractor Farm, owned by Andrea and Christian Stanley of Hadley, MA. They grew grain at the Northampton Community Farm for their malt business, Valley Malt, and supplying local craft breweries with 100% local malted grain! Read More
Crimson & Clover CSA
Now fully enrolled with 330 shareholders in the 2013 season! Crimson and Clover Farm is our “anchor” CSA farm growing vegetables and fruit sustainably for shareholders and to sell at Northampton’s Tuesday and Saturday farmers markets, hosting educational programming, and donating thousands of pounds of produce each year to hunger relief programs.
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2012 In Review
