Category: Farm and Food Systems

Farm and Food Systems

Adorable Baby Animal Alert

It’s lambing and calving season at Chewonki Salt Marsh Farm and we’d love to introduce you to our farm residents. Plus, aren’t you curious to hear a sweet lambing season highlight from Megan Phillips, our Farm and Woodlot Manager?

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Watermelon Radishes
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Watermelon Radishes

Here at Chewonki we just finished our last bag of watermelon radishes which were harvested last fall. They kept beautifully in our root cellar. What a joy to

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What's Cookin'

Chocolate Beet Cake

Food fact: Beets – Last growing season Chewonki farmers harvested 416 lbs of beets. We store the beets in our temperature controlled root cellar where they

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Chicken?
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An Egg SHELLebration!

We have a lot of eggs! The chickens at Chewonki are currently producing more than one hundred eggs a day. Participants and students have cared

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Celeriac Root
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Celeriac Root

Here at Chewonki we have many bags of celeriac stored in our root cellar. Celeriac is a cousin of celery but the root is the edible part. Stalks would make a great addition to a vegetable stock, but usually when you see a celeriac in the market the stalks are removed. Celeriac is round and about the size of a rutabaga.

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