Recently, Hannah Ryde (Semester 48) returned to the farm to capture these images of daily moments around the barn. So lovely! While in Maine, she also visited Common Ground Country Fair, where Sal and I spent the weekend doing demonstrations in the round pen and working woodlot. Here, Hannah photographed me stretching Sal as part …
During our final Farm and Food Systems class of the semester, students gathered in my house to share their “This I Believe” statements about their approach to eating. Avery, one of our brilliant and passionate student farmers, shared the following: I believe that each person should have equal access to food. Good food. Food that …
Oftentimes at Chewonki, we speak to the connection between the head, heart, and hands. Here are a few excerpts from stories shared with family and friends of Semester 55 students during Family Weekend just before Thanksgiving: That head-heart-hand connection has been seen so many times on the farm this semester, through heavy harvests and chicken …
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The fall is a season of bountiful harvests and waning light, taking animals to the slaughterhouse and long lists of food from the farm read off at every meal. It is also – happily – the season to start to imagine starting the cycle all over again. This week the farm and kitchen crew met …
This past week, the students here at Chewonki have been focusing on something a little different than the regular class schedule: Human Ecology Capstones. Each student has chosen a completely different focus for this week to expand upon in a project that can literally be anything one’s imagination can illustrate. Some are doing surveys relating …
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