Many Hands Farm Corps

Many Hands Farm Corps Don't w**d, cultivate This will provide both vital labor for local farms, and vital experience for young people.
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Providing a vital connection between community and farmers, we will give young people jobs on farms, feed and house them, and teach them about both farming systems and community.

02/15/2018
05/25/2017

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05/25/2017

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04/22/2017

I've been seeing a lot of these in the field amidst a lot of cover crop residue. Can anyone identify it?

02/08/2017

As business run primarily by a single individual and at most by a small group of people, it's hard to not have a political slant even in our everyday operations. We try to be inclusive, generous, and active in our community so that we can better serve it. There is certainly a motivation of self interest, but if the act of profiting or even protecting ourselves endangers or takes away from others then we cannot in good conscience do nothing to avoid those outcomes even when it may not benefit us in the short term to change. I (and I think I can speak for the others who work with me) do not share the conservative faith in the free market to meet the needs of society. That being said, we will try our best as a business to prove that belief correct. We have and will continue to keep our wages above the minimums required by law, we avoid inexpensive fertilizers and lazy procedures to prevent pollution and rely on soil building practices to remove carbon from the atmosphere to be stored in the soil, we believe in and practice gender parity, we support our local schools, we embrace refugees, we celebrate diversity, our primary marketing technique is to donate 3 shares each season to benefit people in need or support a cause, we accept payments through SNAP, and even if the governments cuts funding for SNAP we will just donate more shares until a more compassionate and competent government recognizes the value of guaranteeing (or at least attempting to guarantee) food security and restores that funding, and finally, we rarely use social media and when we do, my thoughts can almost never fit in a single tweet. So if you tell me you believe government ought to be run more like a business, I'd have to agree with you. If we disagree about everything else, at least that's a start.

05/18/2016
GMOs Are Safe, But Don't Always Deliver On Promises, Top Scientists Say

The idea that organic foods are "safer" than gmos is really just a marketing gimmick. There are so many reasons to grow organically but few make for easily digestible sound bytes. The idea that gmos inherently have higher yields is another marketing gimmick from the other side. I'm so glad this new report is trying to shed some light on the truth

A new report from the National Academy of Sciences knocked down some pro-GMO claims, such as that they've boosted crop yields, and urged federal agencies to change the way these foods are regulated.

02/11/2016
Farmers Put Down the Plow for More Productive Soil

I randomly found this article published earlier this year also in the New York Times. Ben Gagnon...this is more in line with my idea of revolutionary

Soil-conservation farming, a movement that promotes not tilling fields and using “green” manures, is gaining converts in tough environments and markets.

02/06/2016
Cover Crops, a Farming Revolution With Deep Roots in the Past

I was excited to see cover crops in the New York Times, terrified and confused as to why only 10 million out of 390 million acres are put into cover crops nationally

The practice of seeding fields between harvests with noncash crops, which had fallen out of favor at modern farms, is making a steady comeback as farmers who have embraced it report higher yields.

07/01/2015

Mmm PYO

06/28/2015
Many Hands Farm Corp CSA

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Week four newsletter

¼ cup white wine white vinegar 1 ½ teaspoon sugar 1 teaspoon dried oregano ½ large carrot, peeled and grated ½ yellow onion, thinly sliced ¼ head green cabbage, shredded Kosher salt, to taste

06/25/2015

We're gonna need bigger crates

06/24/2015

I love summer

06/22/2015

Good food, good beer, good cider, and good music tonight at many hands, 7-10pm.

06/20/2015

Warning: ONLY A PREVIEW OF WEEK 3 Raspberries, Beets, and Carrots may induce spontaneous happiness. See everyone Monday @ 7:00.

06/17/2015

Follow us on Instagram! Username: manyhandsfarmcorps

06/17/2015

So maybe I am a hipster farmer.

06/16/2015

Support Many Hands Farm. Chinese Cabbage, Garlic Scapes, Hakurei Turnips, and Radishes are Freshly Stocked. Who's ready to make some Kimchi?

06/16/2015

Week 2 Share: lettuce, spinach, mustards, kale, swiss chard, chinese cabbage, kolrabi, radishes, turnips, garlic scapes, pick your own peas, strawberries, and herbs.

06/07/2015

First distributions are this week! Monday June eighth 4-6pm, Thursday June eleventh 4-6pm, and Saturday June thirteenth 9am-12. If you were hoping to sign up but haven't done so yet just come during the regularly scheduled distribution times, we still have a few shares available.

04/24/2015

Farm Shares beginning in June are still available. Your kids will thank you

04/03/2015

Goodbye white, hello green. Oh and re-burning our sign. First 10 people who tell me they can't read it get a free ugly, cheap yard sign to put in front of their house

03/30/2015

Pruning berries, seeding onions, broccoli and more...there's still snow outside but it's 60 degrees in the greenhouse.

03/30/2015

last minute decision to buy late blight resistant tomato seeds appropriately made with the police's "I can't stand losing you" in the background

01/07/2015
Phenology Courses | Hitchcock Center - Main

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Nature All Year – A Natural History Study GroupMonthly Sundays, 9:00 am – 12:00noon (some class times may vary depending on topics) Members $250 / Non-members $275 Join us for our second year of offering an in depth natural history course. It is a monthly series of nature explorations with different…

12/17/2014

The crew leaders for 2015 are confirmed and it is a dream team. Jeremy, Margaret, and Shannon, welcome aboard!

10/30/2014

Something to look forward to...twice as much garlic planted and mulched for next year.
Oh...and in case you hadn't noticed earlier...strawberries will be ready by next spring. Don't forget to sign up now for 2015

07/17/2014

Concert and Potluck This Friday (the 18th) at 7 pm on the farm! Featuring "The Old Fashioneds" ol time and blugrass music

04/30/2014

So I definitely prefer warmer sunnier weather and I'm sure you do too, but you know what loves cool weather?.... the extra broccoli and spinach I planted this year. Summer Shares still available, sign up now and you'll be eating good from June to November

04/16/2014

Just a little bit of the poor man's fertilizer, no big deal

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