Wilderness Medical Associates (WMA) just wrapped up two wilderness medicine courses on Chewonki’s campus this week: a Wilderness Advanced First Aid course and Wilderness First Responder Bridge course. Instructor Greg Hren took some stunning and sweet photos of the farm before and in between classroom teaching and practice emergency scenarios. He had this to say …
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I am just in from the first tedding of our first cut of hay this season. Hay making is a three-day process that only happens on the most beautiful days of the summer; it involves a plethora of community and the kind of hard, physical labor where you can see what you’ve done at the …
The Chewonki pigs have made their annual move from the barn to the woods. For the past few years, Chewonki has bought spring feeder pigs from Sourground Farm in Sabattus, Maine. These piglets spend their first two months in the manure shed attached to the barn, rooting around and helping to speed up the decomposition …
The tomatoes in the high tunnel are reaching for the sky these days at long last. I have waxed poetic about the Berry House – so named because this structure is perched on the western edge of Berry Garden, not because we’re growing berries inside – in past blog posts, but there’s something about the …
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