Upcoming Events
| Supper Club
October 21
7pm-10pm
Josiah Smith TavernThis month's farm-to-table meal featuring Land's Sake produce and food from other local farms will focus on locally sourced smoked meats. Our Supper Clubs are scheduled monthly all year long. We have a full schedule planned for 2011. We hope you'll join us! |
Gifts for Fall
| Onion braids as gifts!
You may have noticed the beautiful onion braids hanging in the farm stand. They're the creations of Hilary Crowell, a Land's Sake farmer-artist extraordinaire. These beautiful onion braids are made with our own storage onions and dried flowers from our flower fields. The storage onions keep for up to 3 months, making these beautiful, useful gifts for yourself, family and/or friends. You can order them through November 31. Please allow one week's time when placing orders. Pick-ups will be coordinated with Hilary after order is placed. We do not have the capacity to ship.
To order, please email: hilary@landssake.org with your preferences. We will respond with a confirmation of your order, and directions for payment. Pricing is as follows: When you email, please include your preferences: - Red or yellow onions. (Red onion supply is limited!
- 2 lbs, $10
- 4 lbs, $15
- Add flowers to any size for $3 (We recommend the addition of flowers. They really add a nice touch!)
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Ready for winter?
| Firewood sale.
Don't forget to order your firewood. Land's Sake offers local, seasoned firewood sustainably culled from the Weston forests as part of an overall forest stewardship plan. Half cords are $225 and full cords are $375. Delivery in Weston is free. Stacking is also available. To order, please click here or call the office at 781-893-1162.
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Land's Sake Membership
| One of the best ways you can support Land's Sake is to become a member, or renew your membership. Our work would not be possible without the help of our generous members. In addition to supporting the mission of Land's Sake, members receive benefits including complimentary admission to certain events and discounts on services and education programs.
We are most grateful for your support!
For information about membership, click here. All membership donations are tax deductible.
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Hello Land's Sake friends,The final day of our farm stand season will be Sunday, October 31! This is a great opportunity for you to come in and stock up on garlic, onions, winter squash, celeriac, turnips, kohlrabi, cabbage, Hutchin's Farm
storage apples, honey and lots of other farm goods that will get you through (some of) the winter! There may be some great bargains in store for that final week....all the more reason to stop by and make a purchase before we reopen next June. Also, join us and help celebrate the last day of our farm season with the first ever Soupapalooza! There will be hot soup, some farm stand bargains, and high spirits on this special day. Many thanks,
Eric Kreilick
Executive Director
eric@landssake.org
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Soupapalooza: Harvest Season Farewell
12-2pm, Sunday, October 31, at the Farmstand
October 31 is the last day the Land's Sake Farmstand will be open. To celebrate the final day of the 2010 farming and harvest season, please come share hearty homemade soup with our Land's Sake friends at the Farm Stand on Wellesley Street. We will feature Land's Sake produce in the soups, and some will be vegetarian.
It's also Halloween, so there may be some Jack-o-lantern fun, and if there are any remaining pumpkins they may be priced to move to your doorstep for the festivities as darkness falls.
Soupapalooza is free and the soup will be first come, first served.
(PS: We'd love to invite volunteers to pitch in. If you would like to make soup (your great recipe or ours) or hoist a ladle, please send an email to eric@landssake.org.) |
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Rivers Students Demonstrate Service
Most of us could think of a really good way to use a day off. More often than not our choices will be based solely on our own concerns. On Monday, 17 students from the Rivers Upper School spent their days off helping to move the Land's Sake education garden to its new home on the Land's Sake farm. The group spent the morning gleaning the gardens, moving raised beds and relocating the compost bins. The group was so productive that they finished the original projects, moved on to weeding strawberries, and finished harvesting carrots for the Land's Sake donations program! Assistant farm manager, Stephanie Andrews, commented that the Rivers students out performed most college groups who have helped on the farm.
Our thanks to Jeanette Szretter and Bruce Taylor from the Rivers office of Community Service for making the day possible. We look forward to working with the Rivers staff and students again in the future. |
From the Farm
People often ask what we farmers will do to "pass my winter." The answer is that a community farmer's work is never done. Stephanie Andrews (Assistant Manager) and I work straight through the winter. Our Assistant Growers will either be working in the woods with Land's Sake's land management crew or making ends meet by taking on other jobs until their season picks up again in April of next year. Stephanie and I still work outside for much of November, cleaning up after our busy season and putting the fields to bed. We will even continue to harvest and sell some produce wholesale through November. We will also be working on our farm planning for much of November and December, finalizing our crop and greenhouse plans for the next season, so that we will be poised to order seed when we get word that they are ready for ordering. There are endless small improvements, repairs and reorganizations to be made to our farm systems, stand signage, and of course to the tools and infrastructure we have used so well over the farm season. With the hopes of figuring out better ways to grow or run things, we will spend a good amount of time seeking the advice of other more experienced growers at conferences, at CRAFT farm tour/meetings, or one on one. In February we will be making maple syrup and getting the greenhouse prepped for all of the thousands of teensy seedlings that fill the space come March. Then it starts all over again!
Melanie Hardy, Farm Manager
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Once again, thank you for your ongoing support of Land's Sake. We are so proud of our work and of what we have accomplished together with you. Happy Autum to you all!
cheers,
the Land's Sake staff
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