Category Archives: Brookwood Community Farm

December 11 share

Posted on December 13, 2010 by

Saturday was the last distribution of Shared Harvest CSA’s three month winter share. Everything in the photo, except the cookbooks and brewing hard cider, was in the share. Here are the details. Picadilly Farm Parsnips, 2 pounds Butternut, 7 pounds … Continue reading →

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November 13 share

Posted on November 12, 2010 by

We’ve got another lovely share to distribute this weekend! Our farmers will be picking the greens and packing Shared Harvest boxes today. They’ll be up early Saturday morning to deliver boxes of deliciousness to us! Marius from Cider Hill Farm … Continue reading →

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Shared Harvest in the news

Posted on October 19, 2010 by

Here’s a nice article about Shared Harvest CSA in the Canton Journal. Check out the photos of the cold-hardy greens, some of which will be in the upcoming shares. I dropped by Brookwood last week and found Judy, Jason and … Continue reading →

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Hungry?

Posted on October 14, 2010 by

(updated November 5) Shared Harvest Winter CSA  can supply the veggies for many tasty meals this winter! Lots of A few two month shares are still available. Pick up is at Busa Farm in Lexington or Brookwood Farm in Canton … Continue reading →

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What’s in the winter share,

Posted on August 24, 2010 by

and will it be enough, or too much, for my family? I spoke with a couple of folks yesterday who were wondering about this.  I think the best way to answer the question is to check out the 2009 share … Continue reading →

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Brookwood Farm’s On-Farm Market

Posted on October 18, 2009 by

The farm I’m working at this season is having it’s first end-of-season on-farm market. Although it’s been a tough growing season, we’ve an abundance of cool weather crops in our fields. We will be harvesting everything for our farmstand sale … Continue reading →

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What’s in the share?

Posted on October 14, 2009 by

I wrote this for this week’s Brookwood Community Farm newsletter. Thought I’d get a little extra mileage out of it by posting it here. It certainly applies to winter share contents. It feels like there are fewer surprises with fall … Continue reading →

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Cover Crops

Posted on September 20, 2009 by

Cover crops help us begin to replace the tons (literally!) of organic matter taken from the fields during the growing season. Tons (again, literally!) of compost will also need to be spread before the next growing season if we are … Continue reading →

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Blessings of Fall Weather

Posted on September 19, 2009 by

It’s cold at Brookwood in the mornings now. We wear fleece and hats while we harvest early in the mornings. The long underwear, wool socks and warm boots will come out of storage soon. Work sharer, Melinda Gammon, snapped these … Continue reading →

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Tractor Dreams, part 3

Posted on September 11, 2009 by

This summer, whenever the hydraulics stopped working on the Cub, we just filled ‘er up with more. Seemed odd that so much oil kept spilling out of the oil filler; odder yet that the Cub never seemed low on oil, … Continue reading →

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