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| Wm, sharing his field plans |
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| Betsy, drilling a hole for wire trellis |
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| Emma and Kiyoshi planting onions |
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| Sophia and Wm planting onios |
Our first stop today was Wm's plot of farm land in North Amherst at Amherst Brook Conservation. We helped him with a few tasks.
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| Caitlin and Theo putting up the hops "teepee" |
Wm took us over to meet the new farmers on the block: Many Hands Farm Corps. These fellows have leased some wonderful land and are putting together a CSA as well as a farm/land stewardship program for youth. We joined them in planted several rows of onions and they showed us their hand-made hoop house. It was a beautiful structure.
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| Planting MORE onions |
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| Looking at the hand-made Hoop house |
After eating our lunches, we hopped back in the van and drove to Northampton to visit Nate and Jen's farm--Crimson and Clover. I can't remember if I had blogged about this before. GrowFood Northampton is a community group that, within one year, organized and fought to have some beautiful acreage preserved and then leased the purchased land to Nate and Jen, The Farm School staff. They now are 99 year leasees of some wonderful land. We took a tour of the place and then helped with some tasks.
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| Andrew, basket weeding |
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| Nate telling us about the barn |
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| Justin and Nora helping Andrew roll out the remay |
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| Remay, rolled out |
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| Connecting with Andrew at the post-work cook-out |
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| Emily, stepping out of the sun |
Some other nice shots of the day.
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| Tracks: human and dear |
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| Freshly plowed in rye--note small red tractor in distance. Yay Stella! |
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| Bloomed Trillium |
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