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Our greenhouse is now filled with a rainbow of curing winter squash!
Best carrot ever!
Livingston supervises hand-weeding in the brassicas. This was our cauliflower planting back in late August.
Farmer Laura spreading onions out in our greenhouse in early/mid-August. Here, they will cure (dry out) for a couple of weeks before we start cleaning and selling them.
Emily and Linda are our veteran Tuesday harvest helpers. They have worked here longer than any of the farmers! Here they are cleaning onions last week.
Ah, September…all crisp blue skies and apples. We make weekly trips to Carlson Orchards in Harvard, MA, to get our apples for the farm stand. This particular day I had to wait for my order, so I snapped some photos and bought some cider donuts for the farm crew.
One of the best parts of my job is walking the fields to see what work needs to be done and to find out what crops are ready, or nearly ready, for harvest. This Sunday’s was a particularly exciting walk, especially in our northern fields. Left to right: Daikon radishes, sweet potatoes and popping corn. And a turkey feather.
Steph with our newly strung twinkle lights.
Ned, our favorite painter, putting a few coats of sealant on the endwalls of our greenhouse yesterday. Thanks Ned!
A Brandeis student learning to sort tomatoes on Monday. He and his 15 or so classmates helped us to pick 1300 pounds of tomatoes in record time.
Greens are back! Here is a CSA member choosing from: dinosaur kale, white russian kale, rainbow chard, bok choy, Vitamin Green and Tokyo Bekana. Yum!
The Green Power program provides teens with the opportunity to grow food, care for animals, mentor younger children, volunteer in the community, cook fresh food, work hard and have fun!
Check out all the cool things the teens did Summer 2012! And keep an eye out for the chance to join the Green Power Summer 2013 Crew!
While it’s not quite Fall, the air has certainly turned brisk and Summertime fun has been replaced with Back-to-School excitement. Here at Land’s Sake, we particularly notice the change of seasons as weeks of Green Power give-way to After School Programs, and constant harvesting and weeding in the heat segues into harvesting and storing the bounty of Fall. Thank you to all who have made for such a wonderful Summer season; we look forward to what Fall has in store for us and say ‘farewell’ with 10 of our favorite Summer moments.
Enjoy!
1. First Wellesley Farmer’s Market appearance of the Season. Beautiful display!
2. Farm & Forest Explorers mucking out the goat and sheep stalls. Great teamwork! 
3. Thinned Beets. Quite vibrant! 
4. Kids’ Cafe-ers climbing in the Magic Tree. South Boston Boys and Girls Club Crew!
5. Truckin’ Tomatoes! Heading to the fields to be planted…
6. Ripened ‘n’ Ready! Farmer Melanie celebrating the results of all that hard work.
7. A bunny named Squirrel and a few of her Boys and Girls Club friends. Farm Tranquility.
8. Farmer Laura direct seeding. A Ground’s Eye View.
9. Feeding the new bulls, Williamsburg & Vermont, during Green Power’s morning animal chore routine.
10. A successful carrot harvest! Way to go Green Power 2012!
Join us this Fall for special memories to come!
For the Sake of the Land 