With seeding starting this week, here’s a quick list of what is being planted on the farm in the next month: Seeding Date Seed, Direct Seed, or Transplant? Crop Variety name 20-Feb S Alliums Lincoln leek 20-Feb S Alliums Megaton leek 27-Feb S Alliums Ailsa Craig onion 27-Feb S Alliums Patterson onion 27-Feb S Alliums …
At Chewonki, we start our day with morning chores. Everyone is assigned to a specific area on campus and we all do our part to help keep communal spaces clean and functioning. But one cabin’s morning looks a little bit different. For two weeks every semester, each cabin does farm chores, which involves waking up …
Warm days and cold nights have triggered the sap flow in the maple trees on Chewonki Neck and semester students are setting taps and hanging buckets to collect this magical, sticky stuff. Then we boil it down to produce what James Kary, our science teacher and sugar-master, describes with tongue-in-cheek as “small-batch, artisanal maple syrup.” The …
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