Category: Farm and Food Systems

Perhaps I’ll start at the end of the story that I want to tell and work backwards.  Mid-afternoon yesterday, 46 people stood in a circle

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

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

The tomatoes in the high tunnel are reaching for the sky these days at long last. I have waxed poetic about the Berry House –

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

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

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

Below are excerpts from stories that the farm crew shared with Semester 52 students and families this Family Weekend.  We are exceedingly grateful – each

The ramp (Allium triccocum), also known as wild leek and wild garlic, is a wild growing spring delicacy found across much of the eastern half