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Dispatch from “Our Farms, Our Future: The Next 30 Years of Sustainable Agriculture”

Posted on May 15, 2018 by Sophie
Reading time 10 minutes
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Spring Starts: A New Crop of LTF Farmers Share Challenges, Support

Posted on April 8, 2018 by Sophie
Reading time 8 minutes
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Writing Our Way In

Posted on January 21, 2018 by Sophie
Reading time 10 minutes
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Conflicting Futures of Seed

Posted on December 12, 2017 by Sophie
Reading time 9 minutes
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Dairy Dreaming

Posted on November 8, 2017 by Sophie
Reading time 9 minutes
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Anxiety, IPM, and the Triple Bottom Line

Posted on October 27, 2017 by Sophie
Reading time 8 minutes
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A Thank You Note

Posted on October 2, 2017 by Sophie
Reading time 1 minute
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Link: Want to support local meat? Buy frozen, on consignment

Posted on August 2, 2017 by Sophie
Reading time less than 1 minute
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Reconsidering Wholesale

Posted on June 5, 2017 by Sophie
Reading time 9 minutes
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Seeking: Livestock Veterinarians Across America

Posted on May 9, 2017 by Sophie
Reading time 11 minutes

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Registration for our winter meat share is open! Enjoy five or six monthly deliveries of pastured pork, grass-fed beef, grass-fed lamb and eggs. Pick up in Watertown or on the farm in North Orange starting December 12th. For more information or to sign up, follow the link in our bio!
Giving the beef herd some ❤️ what a view from the Waz barn! #reddevin #orchardgardens #4thgrade #farmschoolpvs
Fridays are for belly rubs #bestfriends #snuggles #joy #love #farmschoolpvs
It's officially time to think about next summer! Want to come or know of someone who wants to come to summer program at the farm?? Sign up starts TODAY :) check us out online farmschool.org/summer We hope to see you there! #farmschoolpvs
Introducing --our first official product from The Farm School Dairy-- Yogurt! We've milked cows here for ages, and now with our new pasteurizer the students have the chance to enjoy products from the cows they have milked, groomed, and given so much love to #fullcircle #farmfreshyogurt #jerseymilk #farmschoolpvs
Comeoooooon cooooooows #shadyhillschool #farmwork #farmschoolpvs
Former Farm School Chef Aly Lopez is doing big things in Somerville! We're missing her dearly, but check out @nibble.kitchen - a restaurant that has rotating menus from chefs from around the world! It's located at @bow.market and she hopes to see you there :)
"They call me... The Chicken Tender" #morningchores #chickentenders #northquabbin #farmschoolpvs #nativityprep
It's barn kitty Cyrus's social media debut! Nativity prep kiddos showing SO much love to this sleepy kitten #barncat #snuggles #farmschoolpvs
Pre- and post-graduation 🥳 The Student Farmers in the Learn to Farm class of 2018-2019 graduated this past weekend. Congrats StuFas! Can’t wait to see what you do next! #thefarmschool #learntofarm #studentfarmer
Snack time for the calves! It was so nice having the Gordon School here this week to share in all the magic! Take a look! #riceharvest #carmenshoney #thanksbees #cinnamonrolls #farmschoolpvs
Farmer-Teacher Josh and student farmers built an H Brace, one of the foundational pieces of high tensile fencing for livestock #thefarmschool #learntofarm #studentfarmer #hightensile #hbrace

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The Farm School offers a year-long, work-based, experiential immersion in the practical skills of diversified, sustainable farming. Everyday and in every way our student farmers learn to farm by farming, supported by coursework, mentoring and instruction from our staff farmers. Our program runs October to September and is open to adult students 18 and up.

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