Field Notes: Crimson & Clover Farm
Field Notes: Crimson & Clover Farm by Jen Smith & Nate Frigard for the C&C Farm team Our season is off to a great start so far. We had a bit of an odd spring with unseasonally warm weather followed by a long spell of cold and wet weather, but our spring crops have done [...]
Continue Reading →Improving Food Access
Improving Food Access by Adele Franks for Grow Food Northampton GFN is working in several ways to bring this season’s bounty of fresh, healthy food from the Northampton Community Farm to households with limited income. This year GFN doubled the number of farmshares it sponsors for local low-income senior citizens in collaboration with CISA. In [...]
Continue Reading →The Art of Watering
The Art Of Watering by Suna Turgay FOG Steering Committee Member This summer is bringing below average rainfall, so water conservation in food production is critical. Here at the Florence Organic Community Garden (FOG), water shortages provide an opportunity to focus on the basics: soil preparation, heavy mulching, and targeted watering, all of which bear [...]
Continue Reading →Field Notes: Slow Tractor Farm
Field Notes: Slow Tractor Farm by Andrea Stanley Slow Tractor Farm Grain growing on three GFN fields in Florence has been underway since April. The fields were plowed, disc harrowed, and then seeded with 9 acres of malting barley, 9 acres of oats and 17 acres of buckwheat. The East Field is where the buckwheat is growing as [...]
Continue Reading →Learning on the Farm
Learning on the Farm by Meg Taylor for The Farm Education Collaborative The Farm Education Collaborative led three new children’s programs and family workshops at Crimson & Clover Farm this spring. The children’s programs met weekly while the family self-reliance workshops, Raised Bed Food Production,Backyard Chickens, and Cob Oven Building, were held on weekend days. In the [...]
Continue Reading →Growing Up
Growing Up by Nancy Eve Cohen FOG Gardener, Writer for Vermont Public Radio Gardens typically are planted on the ground. But FOG gardener Eli Roberts is growing part of his inside a ten-foot-tall tower. The 25-year-old permaculture student says one of his goals is to maximize growing space.Roberts first got serious about gardening four years ago when he [...]
Continue Reading →Biking in the FOG
Biking in the FOG by Art Larson FOG Steering Committee Member Hi Folks. I’m Art Larson. I’ve got a plot at both FOG and at the Northampton Community Garden. I live in Hadley and biking is my primary mode of transportation by choice. Both community gardens are bike-friendly, especially FOG. There are lots of tools [...]
Continue Reading →Volunteer Shout-Out!
Volunteer Shout-Out! Wade Clement Meet Wade Clement, a recent addition to GFN’s star volunteer force! Bringing a wealth of building trade skills and a cheery demeanor, Wade jumped in this spring to guide the infrastructure development of GFN’s Florence Organic Community Garden–including our beautiful tool shed and irrigation system. A relative newcomer to the Northampton [...]
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