Once again, we are in the midst of hosting a Williams College Winter Study Class at the farm engaging with them in a great, hands-on, learning adventure. The week combines hands-on activities with conversations with farmers, journalists, policy makers, and others in the food system focused on how to make our food system more sustainable, […]
Stories from the Farm
Hands-On Enthusiasm & Gratitude
January 20, 2016 – 10:13 am
By Laura
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Ode to January
January 7, 2016 – 8:26 am
Oh, January how I love thee. A brand new year and the demands of the growing season seem so far away! So many possibilities for house projects, cooking experiments, rest, relaxation..oh and of course that backlog of important personal, administrative, and planning projects that have been pushed aside for more urgent demands. Oh, how I […]
Farmers as Elves…
December 16, 2015 – 7:32 am
This past week, we have been busy as elves (or farmers I guess) transforming some of the growing season’s bounty into delightful treats for the holiday season as well some items to make your cooking easier & local. We packed up a lot for the Floating Bridge Food & Farms Holiday market last weekend (thanks to […]
Cultivating Meaningful Holidays
December 10, 2015 – 5:55 am
Rejuvenate yourself and refresh your holiday traditions. Connect with farmers who grew and made gifts and products to make your holiday feasts and celebrations special. These are full circle gifts. Gifts you give wrapped in stories –stories of local ingredients, talents, your own adventures getting them. And take pride that your purchases are investments in […]
Praise the Lard…
December 2, 2015 – 8:43 pm
And the pasture-raised pigs that provide it! We have been celebrating lard lately, after making some fresh batches and coming into the season of more time for cooking and baking. And the bounty of sweet potatoes has one farmer craving a deep fryer so we could make sweet potato fries in our lard. With the prompt […]
Finding Gratitude
November 18, 2015 – 6:15 pm
Sometimes it takes some occasion – be it a holiday or world events or losses to make us stop in our tracks and to pull ourselves out of the daily grind and routines. Stimulus helps us lift our heads up and notice life, our surroundings, and the world a bit differently. In these moments we remember what […]
Turkeys get to Boston One Way or Another!
November 5, 2015 – 8:42 am
Laura looked like the pied piper walking the flock across the clover. Despite Darienne’s calls of encouragement leaning through the front window, they balked at the trailer. These moments always make me think of Temple Grandin and of conversations years ago with our friend Lisa designing a facility to care for elders with dementia , […]
By Laura
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Carrot Harvest
October 21, 2015 – 8:16 pm
The harvest of the storage carrots has begun and they are gorgeous! It seems some of our changes this year are paying off including the bed shaper, biochar and foliar feeding. Carrots are one of those elusive ones during the growing season. Not only are they underground, but due to carrot rust fly they also […]
Fall Colors!
October 14, 2015 – 8:10 am
This week amidst our work, we have been enjoying the incredible colors in mostly the fall foliage but also the veggies coming in. Definitely our views have been framed by the farm and our pasture-raised livestock have been getting some of the best views. We hope they have been […]
Framing Foliage in Farms, Food and Community
October 7, 2015 – 1:49 pm
Whether you are looking for day trip ideas or a way to experience fall foliage in an off-the-beaten-path way, we invite you to our farms and community. We organized the Floating Bridge Food and Farms Cooperative to make our working landscape more accessible for folks to enjoy. Cooperative members host farm tours, apple picking and […]
By Laura
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Tagged apples, fall, floating bridge food and farms, foliage, harvest market, lard, pie
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