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The report provides data and information to understand and adapt the program to increase the availability of locally0grown produce in New England; offers best practices gleaned through numerous stakeholder interviews; and offers recommendations for potential changes to the program.

Download the report here.

Enjoy!

Also, if you are a returning gardener and want to choose your plot, you are welcome to let us know where you’d like to grow this summer.

Finally, I’ve set up a Facebook page for announcements, events, and general communication.  You should “like” it if you are so inclined. Here’s that link: http://www.facebook.com/WRJCommunityGarden

But with limited time left in the session, it is now clear that the legislature will not pass the bill this year. We, like you, are frustrated and disappointed, but this does not mean that we will stop our advocacy on this important issue. We are already working to build on everyone’s hard work, and will come back next session with an even stronger bill.

Internship positions are unpaid. Click here to download a full job description. Please contact Enid Wonnacott at enid@nofavt.org if you are interested in discussing a summer internship.

Root Cellar Design

Root cellars and other means of passive food storage are simple and effective ways to reduce carbon footprints, monthly bills, grid dependency, and increase your food security. In this workshop, participants will learn elements of designing for passive cooling and humidity control, including site selection, design strategies and options, materials pros and cons, thermal mass, ice batteries, raw food considerations, planning crops for food storage, design considerations for different applications, and retrofit opportunities and methodologies.

Woodworking Unplugged: Tools for Growers

Gardens are significant aspects of sustainable architecture and communities, and the construction of the tools needed for good gardening can be built with simple techniques and zero visits to the Home Depot. Join us as Professor Rod Northcutt brings his national Woodworking Unplugged Tour to Yestermorrow for a course linking makers with food culture, and facilitating a perspective that is dear to both groups — making from scratch to truly understand that which is made. We’ll focus on garden and food preparation necessities that can be designed and made using traditional techniques with wood and/or salvaged materials. Potential projects include gardening implements (rakes, dibbers, and hayforks), armatures (trellises and produce cages), and auxiliary systems (worm bins, tumbling composters, hygrometers, water harvesting systems, and sub-irrigation planters). Techniques may include mortise/tenon joints, turning, peg making/peg joining, lashing, green bending, and steam bending. Growers, makers, woodworkers and re-skillers are all welcome.

Anyone can support the Farmshare Program. To make a contribution:

1. Make a donation with your CSA order.

2. Make a donation by check of any amount, payable to Cedar Ci

Watch it here.