As you know, the farm property is home to the Woodland Community School, a private day school for children aged 5–12. While students don't directly participate in farm chores and activities, they occasionally have the opportunity to explore the farm environment with a hands-on educational experience. We have been thrilled to provide a deeper look at the farm operation with Woodland students and teachers the last couple of weeks. Time was spent checking out the donkeys, goats, pigs, chickens, greenhouses, seed-room, and some tractors, followed by their incredible help cover cropping in between our tomatoes and planting beans in the field. The saying “Many hands makes light work” rings true when thinking about their positive and substantial impact on the farm in the brief time they were with us getting their hands dirty!
In addition to Woodland Community School, we recently hosted a first grade class from Laffayette in Franconia, who braved the rain and after learning about the farm through a tour set to work planting beans (yes we have lots of beans!), collecting eggs, and doing some potting up outside our seed room.
We find it incredibly important to educate and expose children of all ages (1 - 99+ years old) to the farm and what we do. We hope that children gain a better understanding of where their food comes from and the importance of nourishing and caring for the soil. We hope to inspire a future farmer as well!
Woodland Community School students planting cover crop between cherry tomatoes in GH4. Our first round of lettuce this season once occupied these holes. We cut the plants out, letting the roots decompose in the soil. Check out our shared instagram post above to learn more about the school and see some other things that are happening at the farm.
Woodland Community School students enjoyed some sun while planting beans in G6.
Future farmer Addison enjoyed watching and helping mom as she planted cucumber seeds in soil blocks a couple weeks ago.
Our female cows and a few calves moved from their winter pasture to a summer pasture and have been enjoying the grass.
Jaime easily harvested large heads of lettuce for you all last week from a couple different greenhouses. Lots more lettuce to come! We have head lettuce again for this week. If you run out we will have loose lettuce in the farm stand or find it on sale at the coop this weekend!
We made the move outside last week planting zucchini, tomatoes, and peppers.
We are crossing our fingers, hopeful that last night was the final potential frost of the spring. With clear skies, little wind, and temps in the 30’s we typically get one….last nights was spotty. Thankful for everyone here rallying and getting everything covered, heated, or watered to ensure nothing perished in the colder than usual temps.
If you need a place to dispose of your food scraps besides the trash, we collect them here at the farm and feed them out to our chickens. Eventually the waste gets moved to our compost piles. We also have collection containers at The Littleton Transfer Station and The Littleton Food Coop.
Pickup is from 3:00 - 6:00
If you are unable to pickup Thursday, please let us know so we can put your share aside to be picked up at your earliest convenience.
PLEASE REMEMBER TO BRING BAGS!
Woodland Community School children and parents may be still in and around the driveway when pickup begins, please be careful navigating the parking lot.
Check out our CSA recipe page for some yummy kitchen ideas!
CSA Recipes
Your Farmer, Sam (For Tim, Mikaela, Jeannie, Jim, Evrald, Shawn, Jav, Jeb, Mary, Colin, Jaime, Wyatt, Ani, Sophie, and Jess)