A reflection from Hilary Crowell, Assistant Farm Manager There are certain tasks that we complete and routines that we follow every day and every week at the farm. In these tasks I am reminded that when we take good care of our farm, the farm takes care of us. We cycle the root cellar produce …
Hermione was the last of the ewes to deliver, though we thought she’d be the first judging from her gargantuan belly. But, at long last, the Chewonki lambing season ended on Saturday evening with the birth of twins, one male and one female. Here is the roster of new lambs in total: Patches: 1 mottled …
Below are excerpts from stories that the farm crew shared with Semester 52 students and families this Family Weekend. We are exceedingly grateful – each of us – to this group of students for depth of their work this spring. The sheer quantity of work completed by the hands of Semester 52 students and staff …
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 …
This summer at Boys Camp we are starting a movement toward greater integration of the boys into the daily, meaningful work of the farm. One structure that supports this move is the new . . . drumroll, please . . . Junior/Master Farmer program. Throughout the summer, boys are working to check off farm experiences …
I am just finishing a quick breakfast after morning chores. I do morning chores most every day of the year, starting somewhere between 5:40 and 6:45, depending on the season. The work becomes routine – rote, even. And then there is a morning like this one, when no less than 20 campers showed up to …
Well, an eleven year old on farm chores this afternoon set a high bar in terms of really solid farm puns. Here’s the story: It being a summer weekend, a subsection of the farm crew usually take on morning and afternoon chores solo, without the help of campers. This afternoon, however, four campers working toward …
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