• Oregano
• Chives with flower tops
• Peas
• Mint
  

CSA shareholders can visit the farm to pick your own herbs Sunday through Thursday during daylight hours.  Visit the red pick-your-own kiosk in the fields for a list of available crops and picking supplies.

Coming soon

This forecast will hopefully help you plan ahead.  It's slightly more reliable than a weather report.

This year, our farm is lucky to have an incredible group of interns working full-time with us for up to 13 weeks during the summer.  These dedicated seasonal workers are with us for a critical period on the farm - when the harvest starts to come in and the weeds are growing in full force.  Day after day in the fields, they hand weed and hoe, transplant and trellis, help our farm crew fix broken equipment, sharpen hoes, or seed carrots and beans, or chat with volunteers from an elementary school or temple group as they weed that bed of carrots for the third time.  What's more, not only are these four amazing on the farm, they have quite a bit going for them outside of the fields as well.

Josh Levin, a native of Newton, joins us from Rice University, where he is double majoring in linguistics and English.  He plans to study in India this fall to practice his Hindi.  Although he has been part of many service projects across the country, Josh has never before worked on a farm.  "I remember listening to a farmer speak in high school," he says, "saying that growing food locally is even more important than growing it organically, because of the fuel consumption issues involved with its transportation.  This is a point that's really stuck with me.  I also believe that local food production helps foster a sense of community, and an understanding of one's immediate natural surroundings. ... Personally, I know very little about how a vegetable goes from being a seed to ending up on someone's plate, and I'd really like to change that."  Josh loves to uncover all the bugs and other animals that live among the crops at the farm, and he loves working with volunteer groups.

Vinny Errico lives in Andover, and will be a senior in the School of Engineering at Cornell University next fall.  He worked at Daloz Organic Farm and Mill in New Hampshire last summer and very much enjoyed his time there.  He also has lots of customer service experience, from selling Christmas trees to four years of work at a local driving range.  Vinny likes to cook and to talk with folks who come to the farm about how they use the food we grow.  He looks forward to working on our tractors and farm equipment.  One of his favorite days of the farm week is Mondays, when we have our weekly lunch potluck.  So far, he enjoys pounding in tomato stakes with the post pounder more than any other task on the farm.

Anna Wei is an environmental studies major at Mount Holyoke College.  Last summer, she volunteered at an eco-village in Brazil and participated in a permaculture apprentice and ecovillage design course.  She is passionate about sustainable food production and hopes to gain more experience in hands-on organic food production and distribution this summer.  Anna participates in both the running club and outing club at Mount Holyoke.  She also plays the violin and sings with her church choir.  She is traveling to our farm each day from Revere, so she has lots of time to sleep on the train early in the morning.  Anna loves the sugar snap peas and sore muscles from her first week on the farm.

Sara Franklin is a student at Tufts University, where she is studying history and community health.  She recently returned from a semester abroad in South Africa, where she worked in several clinics around the country and became even more interested in the connection between the availability of healthy food and community health..  Sara is also working to help start the Medford Farmers' Market this summer.  According to Sara, "my interest in agriculture is relatively new, but has come about through years of interest in natural health and a firm belief in the importance of knowing where the food we eat comes from... and investment in the quality of foods we eat....  In addition, I'm very interested in working against the poor nutrition in most low income communities- the fact that the most affordable, and readily available food, in the U.S. are fast food and processed foods, is incredibly frustrating to me... on a more practical note, I really enjoy "getting my hands dirty" and not sitting in an office all day...  Thus my interest in a community-based farm."

Please help us welcome our interns to the farm this summer!  Let them know you appreciate them as much as we do!