Education

Minuteman article about our new goat yard

Minuteman article about our new goat yard

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 […]

Goat Yard will be open today for tours!

Goat Yard will be open today for tours!

The public opening of our new goat yard in Lexington will take place today  from 1 – 4 pm as planned. Roads in the immediate area are clear, but please use your own judgment regarding travel. If you come, wear boots! You’ll be walking through a […]

Visit the new Goat Yard

Visit the new Goat Yard

On Sunday, October 30 from 1pm – 4 pm, we’ll be hosting our very first public event at the new goat yard! Please join us as we begin a new farm-based education program in Lexington: learn about how these intelligent, highly social animals can contribute […]

Goat Lessons

Goat Lessons

As we begin our new venture of offering goat/farm-based education, we expect to learn a great deal ourselves in the process! We’ll share those learnings as we can through this blog. To start, here are some initial impressions from Ellen Frye, LexFarm’s Board liaison to […]

Announcing the Goat Yard

Announcing the Goat Yard

We are thrilled to announce that we have started a small farming operation involving Nigerian Dwarf Goats!  The goat yard is located on private property behind Busa Farm and LexFarm has hired two wonderful caretakers, Sofia McDonald Games and Ben Schlosser, to operate the goat […]

Visiting my compost

Visiting my compost

Watching kitchen scraps turn slowly into compost for fertilizing our garden is–truth be told–the best part of gardening. I have four home made trashcan-composters tucked next to our garage, and I love to check on how they are doing.  Once in a while I tip […]

Tree Planting

Tree Planting

We had an exhilarating morning at the Lexington Tree Farm today..planting about 70 trees along with members of the Lexington Tree Committee, Field and Garden Club and Conservation Stewards. Those who have been doing this for several years now said this was the best turnout […]