About the Coalition

Welcome to the website of the Lexington Community Farm Coalition. Our goal is to bring community farming to Lexington, Massachusetts. A community farm would be an immense benefit to our town in many ways, including providing fresh, local produce, hands-on educational opportunities and more…

LexFarm is committed to working with everyone interested to understand why a community farm makes good sense for Lexington. We hope you’ll explore this website to find out more information about community farms in general,  join our email list for continuing updates on our progress, and let us know how you’d like to get involved! See below for specific links to make it easier…

Coalition Leadership

Janet Kern coordinates the big picture for LexFarm – working with Town officials, LexFarm members and the wider community – to develop a common vision for a community farm in Lexington. Janet is a former Market Manager, website designer and webmaster for the Lexington Farmers’ Market, where she experienced first-hand how a community can be strengthened through its connections to local food and local farmers. She volunteers for the Lexington Interfaith Garden, and is a member of the Lexington Field and Garden Club.  In her spare time from volunteering, Janet offers computer consulting to small non-profit organizations, under the name “Locally Grown Software”. In addition, she enjoys spending time with her husband and family on various restoration projects in their 1789 home, the farmhouse for the former Reed Dairy Farm on Lowell St.

Meg Muckenhoupt works on LexFarm publicity, outreach, and event planning. Meg is a professional writer and editor–her most recent book is “Boston Gardens and Green Spaces,” published by Union Park Press–and she holds a certificate in field botany from the New England Wild Flower Society. Mother to three Harrington Elementary School students, Meg leads Big Back Yard walks at the school and works with the Harrington Green Team to help kids understand our environment and how we can work for positive change to our green world. Meg also volunteers with the Lexington Interfaith Garden which provides fresh local produce to the Lexington Food Pantry. In her spare time, she tries to raise tomatoes in her north-facing shaded yard and admires the wood frogs in Whipple Hill.

Jay Luker manages our website and e-mail communications. He has lived in Lexington since 1999. By day he works as an IT Specialist for the Smithsonian Astrophysics Data System. In the evenings he spends a lot (seriously, a lot) of time cooking as much local food as he can get his hands on. Jay recently joined the Board of Directors of the Waltham Fields Community Farm and thinks a Lexington Community Farm would serve a rapidly growing need in our town as well.

How you can help

We are fortunate to be surrounded by towns with successful examples of thriving and sustainable community farms. To read summaries of a few of them, including links to their websites, see our Neighboring Farms page.

If you are a Lexington resident please  Sign our Petition stating that you support using the Busa farmland for a community farm. The acreage  purchased by the Town of Lexington in December, 2009  from the Busa family represents our best opportunity to establish a community farm here in Lexington right now.

If you’d like to be more actively involved, please fill out the form on our Get Involved page!

Please  Make a Donation to our 501(c)(3) tax-deductible sponsoring organization to support our work.

If you have questions about what we’re trying to achieve, please Contact Us or see the FAQ page.

Photo credit: Carrots by bookgrl (CC License)