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Working Together

Northfield’s Farmers’ Market reopened Tuesday and the green was vibrant with close to twenty vendors who now form a caring community after collaborating to form the winter market. Floating Bridge Food and Farm members met to plan our summer events and our “specialty crop block grant” application. Here at the farm new teammates gather (we’ll […]

Kickstarting Compost

At the end of a long day of processing chickens the farm team split in two directions. Inside the walk-in fridge long rubber gloves eased plump Freedom Rangers and schmaltzy stewing hens from the ice water chill to be dried off and bagged. These chickens were beautiful on pasture. And they are about to be […]

Compost Cabaret

  Saturday, March 24th will be an evening of steaming hot entertainment with music and poetry sure to warm your heart and soul – all to benefit Highfields Center for Composting’s programs to Close the Loop on local food systems. Singer songwriter Kris Gruen, tops the bill with guitarist Brian Clark.  The Roaring Dandelions (blues […]

Minds on Soils and Seeds

Our attention this week has turned to seeds, plants and soils — and it hasn’t been the sudden onset Spring that sent us that direction, but it does have an impact. New Tools We have a fun new tool/system on the farm for seeding (and most importantly) transplanting some of our crops.  The Paper Pot Transplanter! […]