The kitchen is thrilled to be welcoming the first green vegetables of the season from our farm: pea shoots! Although these were grown indoors (our gardens are still buried in snow), this is just the beginning of good things to come. Thank you, farmers!
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When I think about the intersection of community and food, my mind goes to bountiful places: I reflect on the richness of directly growing food for the Chewonki community, and I picture the local farms that we support through our food purchasing in the dining hall. Though more difficult to attach images to, there are
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This winter has been many things, but above all it has been snowy. We have weathered blizzards that have buried barn doors behind seven foot tall drifts to the point that we’ve had to seek alternate exits to the barn and house and then dig our way back in. There are ten-foot tall snow plow
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by Hilary Crowell, Assistant Farm Manager Usually about now some people start to ask me, as a farmer, what I do. I sense that it is a bit of mystery that there is work to do when the ground is frozen and days are short. This is actually a really exciting time to be
by Hilary Crowell, Assistant Farm Manager My favorite kind of pumpkin is called Winter Luxury. What a perfect name! It is a beauty to look at with its cream colored webbing that softens the brightness of its orange skin and gives it an interesting visual texture. And it’s this time of year, when I start