Hay! Ewe! Root for the Farmers!
My adventure at The Farm School.
Farm School trainees
Thursday, December 27, 2012
Thursday, August 18, 2011
Last Views of Maggie's Farm
Oops, carrot seedling. No flame weeding here |
Tyson shows us the equipment. |
Wednesday, August 10, 2011
Trip to Vermont: The Intervale Center
Our second stop on the trip to Vermont was the Intervale Center in Burlington, VT. This 300+ acres of land hosts many individual farming enterprises as well as "incubator farms" and community projects, not to mention educational programs. The farmers on this land--mentor farmers as well as beginning farmers--share the greenhouse space, tractors and implements and wash up areas. We saw a well-established CSA, some smaller market farms, a community plot for immigrants as well as the facilities held in common.
Beautiful Greens (and reds) |
Playground at CSA pick up |
Watch for tractors! |
Flowering buckwheat between blueberry plots |
CSA information board |
Trip to Vermont: Flack Family Farm
How to sum up our visit to Flack Family Farm? I could talk about Doug Flack's delicious sauerkraut. Or his beautiful Red Devon cattle. Or the enormous cabbage. Or his sweet American Farm dog, Buster. Or his passion for counteracting the decline of food quality. Ok, I cannot sum it up. Here are some photos:
You can take a look at the website. I would recommend a visit to the place--I have never seen such vibrant vegetables!
http://www.flackfamilyfarm.com/index.html
Doug's passion for growing delicious vegetables and nutritious animal products is based on the Weston A Price Foundation as well as biodynamic and organic practices.
He gave us a mini-lecture and showed us a timeline of cheap food in the United States.
Ella in the field with cabbage |
Buster listening in while Doug speaks |
Betsy, Kim and Doug disucss the farm |
Red Milking Devons |
You can take a look at the website. I would recommend a visit to the place--I have never seen such vibrant vegetables!
http://www.flackfamilyfarm.com/index.html
Doug's passion for growing delicious vegetables and nutritious animal products is based on the Weston A Price Foundation as well as biodynamic and organic practices.
He gave us a mini-lecture and showed us a timeline of cheap food in the United States.
Doug Flack and his time line of cheap food |
References for further reading |
Trip to Vermont: High Mowing Seed Company
Tom of High Mowing |
Seed packing |
A germination rate test in progress |
Finding our favorite seeds! |
Sacks of seed |
Graduation planned!
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