If you peruse the news today, you will see none other than our own sweet LexFarm goats looking out at you from the Lexington Patch home page!
Click the link under the photo of our goats, and you will see that visiting the goats this Sunday is one of the Patch’s “Five Things To Do This Weekend.” So, come on over for visiting hours this (and every) Sunday, 1-3pm!
Our new goat yard has certainly created a buzz in Lexington…first an article in the Minuteman on Thursday and today an article in the West section of today’s Boston Globe.
Are you interested in visiting and learning more?
Contact us here and spread the word!!
Thanks to the Lexington Minuteman for the nice article about our new goat yard!
This project will be successful only with community support; we hope you’ll arrange to visit , volunteer, and spread the word about this new opportunity for farm-based education in Lexington. Of course, your donation of any amount is particularly helpful right now.
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The Lexington Community Farm Coalition (LexFarm) has awarded two scholarships that will cover conference fees to attend the Northeast Organic Farming Association (NOFA) Summer Conference in Amherst, Mass. from August 12 – 14.
The award recipients are both actively involved in farming in the community and are also both actively pursuing further education related to farming.
Jane Hammer, an Arlington resident, has been involved in farm advocacy, volunteerism, education, and paid on-farm employment in the Lexington area for over 10 years. She has worked to help preserve the Wright-Locke Farm in Winchester as a community farm, was involved as a shareholder, site host and volunteer at Picadilly Farm in NH and supported Waltham Fields Community Farm as a board member, volunteer, through homeschooling educational field work, and as a CSA shareholder. Jane has expressed particular interest in the NOFA conference offerings on Permaculture, Transition Town, and Community Supported Agriculture tracks.
Lauren Yaffee is based at Meadow Mist Farm in Lexington, where she is responsible for animal care, sales and customer relations. She is also a student in the New Entry Sustainable Farming Project at Tufts University. Lauren has been to several previous NOFA conferences and plans to use what she learns in the continuation of good land stewardship and with teachers and students sharing her knowledge about integrative, sustainable farming practices and animal husbandry.
We had a fun time again marching in the parade with our giant vegetables…(and bumble bee and watermelon). Special thanks to our peas in the pod, Lee Lord and Betsy Pollack.
Next year…broccoli!
Here is the Lexington Minuteman article which has a good summary of the Busa Land Use Committee’s presentation to the Board of Selectmen on Monday Night.
As snow blankets Busa Farm after the recent Nor’easter, the Lexington Minuteman has also been blanketed with coverage and letters regarding its fate. Read the commentary by LexFarm Board member, Ellen Frye along with other articles of interest:
Former Town Meeting Member sets history straight – “Farming at Busa was discussed”
Front page story, January 13, 2011: “Busa Committee will make recommendation”
…those were the words of Ginna Johnson, BLUPC committee member, last Thursday evening as the committee came to consensus that the Busa Farm should be kept in tact as a community farm. Read the Minuteman summary here, along with the complete text of Ginna’s extraodinary statement that led the way.
Nice coverage in today’s West section of the Boston Globe:
“They’ve organized a nonprofit group and marched through town waving vegetables to encourage the creation of a community farm. Now the Lexington Community Farm Coalition must wait to see if the idea takes seed.” Read more…