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Food, Farm and Sustainability

Date: 03 Oct 2014

Comment: 3

Tag: Faces behind your Food

The Faces behind your Food: Jim Lachance

Over the next few months, we will be featuring a series of interviews here on the Food, Farm, and Sustainability Blog that focus on the people behind Hampshire’s Healthy Food Transition. From local farmers in the field to seasoned chefs in the campus kitchen, we will explore the faces behind our food. Our first conversation is with Jim Lachance, the General Manager of Bon Appetit Dining Services at Hampshire Co

Date: 08 Sep 2014

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Food Brings Us Together

We had a very exciting week welcoming students to campus; harvesting and feasting in celebration of the coming year! On Tuesday after Convocation, students, faculty, and staff were welcomed to the Community Dinner out on the library lawn. Hampshire’s dining service provider Bon Appetit prepared an incredible local feast that featured pork and fresh vegetables grown on the Hampshire College Farm. Here is the lis

Date: 03 Sep 2014

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Food Forum on Thursday

Come hear about Hampshire’s Healthy Food Transition and partnership with dining service provider Bon Appetit Management Company. Nicole Tocco, Senior Fellow for Bon Appetit Management Company Foundation and Jess Marsh Wissemann, Hampshire’s Food, Farm and Sustainability Coordinator will lead a discussion on campus dining. Topics of discussion will include Bon Appetit’s partnership with the Hampshire

Date: 02 Sep 2014

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Volunteer at the farm tomorrow!

Calling all students: come volunteer at the farm tomorrow from 1am – 2pm with Nicole Tocco, Senior Fellow for the Bon Appetit Management Company Foundation. We will be helping farmer Jason do some much needed weeding! Let’s get out and enjoy the sunshine! Lunch is provided but you have to RSVP ASAP!

Date: 22 Aug 2014

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Welcome Back Students!

Whether you are a returning student ready to tackle Div III or a first-year student itching to discover all that Hampshire has to offer, there are many ways to get involved with food, farm, and sustainability this fall! Peruse this list of groups, programs, activities, and events and get ready to become an active part of Hampshire’s Healthy Food Transition! Join a student group…or start a new one! There a

Date: 14 Aug 2014

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Fresh Vegetables, Fresh Eggs, and Fresh Ideas

In a few weeks, our campus will be repopulated with students, signalling a shift on the farm from planting and weeding to harvesting. The CSA barn will be all hustle and bustle starting on August 26th when our first crop of vegetables will be picked and washed and promptly packed away in member’s tote bags at the first share distribution. The campus CSA has been an essential facet of Hampshire College for over

Date: 25 Jul 2014

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Tag: 100% Local, blueberries, dining commons, Local Food

Farm Crew Picks Blueberries for Campus Dining Hall

The Hampshire College Farm crew caught a break from the barnyard and vegetable fields yesterday on a field trip to pick low-bush blueberries in the Berkshires. The purpose of the trip was not only to provide a fun learning experience for the summer farm crew but also to harvest blueberries that Bon Appetit could use in pursuit of our 100% Local Challenge. Nancy Hanson coordinated with the General Manager of the dinin

Date: 11 Jul 2014

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Hampshire Hosts Screening of Local Farming Documentary

On Wednesday night, over 130 people gathered at Hampshire’s Red Barn to view the live broadcast of WGBY’s new documentary “A Long Row in Fertile Ground.” The event was spurred by Hampshire’s Food, Farm, and Sustainability Institute, an 8 credit academic program with students hailing from as far East as China and as far south as Georgia. The FFS students have visited several area farms th

Date: 02 Jul 2014

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A Living Laboratory at the Hampshire College Farm

The academic buildings tend to be quiet at Hampshire College during the summer. But down at the Hampshire College Farm, our 15 acres of vegetable fields and 65 acres of pasture serve as a living classroom and laboratory for the students of our 6 week Food, Farm, and Sustainability Institute. Brian Schultz, Professor of Entomology and Ecology, is currently leading students in a hands-on experiment at the farm. With th

Date: 27 Jun 2014

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Thinking Globally, Shoveling Locally

This week, word spread about our Healthy Food Transition at two conferences that were hosted locally but had global scope. Beth Hooker, Director of Food, Farm, and Sustainability at Hampshire College presented at a Global Megatrends forum about the interrelationships between food, water, energy, and climate change at the Smith-Tuck Global Leaders Program for Women. Beth explained key issues in our global industrial f

Date: 19 Jun 2014

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Tag: 100% Local, edible communities, edible pioneer valley, healthy food transition

Edible Pioneer Valley features Hampshire Farm

Our fertile valley is just starting to burst with early summer produce. Farm stands are laden with plump red strawberries and farmers market stalls are stuffed with glorious greens, pea shoots, and the last of spring asparagus. With this bountiful backdrop, the relaunch of the beloved publication Edible Pioneer Valley could not come at a better time! We are thrilled that there will be a chronicle of the exciting agri

Date: 12 Jun 2014

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Hens Make a Home at Hampshire

It may be a dreary, rainy day at the Hampshire College Farm, but our spirits are bright because we get to spend the day with 75 baby chickens! This mix of Black Giants, Silver Laced Wyandottes, and New Hampshire Reds is just the first shipment of a total of 300 chickens that will become the new laying flock for the college. The chicks hatched yesterday and were immediately shipped out from Mt. Healthy Hatchery in Ohi

Date: 03 Jun 2014

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Summer Haircuts

As the temperatures rise into the mid 80s today at the Hampshire College Farm, a few creatures are grateful for the haircut they received this morning. Kevin Ford rolled into the farmyard at 7:30am with a small wooden box of tools. He is a professional “blade shearer” trained in the art of carefully cutting away the wooly fleece of a sheep with only a pair of scissors. This traditional method of shearing

Date: 30 May 2014

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What’s buzzing at the farm lately? Transplants, Bees and Piglets!

It has been a busy few weeks here at the Hampshire College Farm. The student workers have been hard at work for over a week and there are muddy boots to show for it! Our vegetable crew has transplanted thousands of starts (with thousands more to go still!) into the fields including tomatoes, leeks, popcorn, and a variety of flowers for our pick-your-own fields. Those flowers will be happily pollinated by our new heal

Date: 16 May 2014

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A new map of the farm

The verdant beauty of the Hampshire College Farm has been translated into a new map by artist Nate Padavick of Studio SSS. An interactive version of the map will soon be posted to the farm website which will include descriptions of the structures, fields, and activities around the farm. Copies are available at the Farm Center for self guided tours, or you can schedule an educational tour with the farm staff HERE. We

Date: 25 Apr 2014

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Fun at the Farm Center

On Tuesday the Farm Center staff hosted a gathering to celebrate Earth Day and the start of the growing season. Students, faculty, and staff traveled down the winding paths and across the grassy fields toward the farm and enjoyed an afternoon of sunshine, seeding, shelling, and the sounds of folk duo Dear Hills. Student workers Sky Loth and Walter Poulson prepared trays of potting mix and everyone helped to seed Mr.

Date: 17 Apr 2014

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Earth Day Open House at the Farm Center

Date: 16 Apr 2014

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Tag: bridge, farm, greenhouse, Hampshire College Farm, Local Food, marketplace, students, sustainability, winter

The Hampshire College Farm Marketplace

This morning we awoke to a thin blanket of snow, but the vibrant green blades of grass poking through prevailed and now this afternoon the sun is shining brightly on the rolling green fields of Hampshire’s campus. We are recovering from a very long winter, but even on the dreariest days there has always been a bit of green growing at the Hampshire College Farm. With the guidance of Hampshire’s CSA Manager

Date: 16 Dec 2013

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Tag: baked goods, recipes

Holiday Baking, Part I: The Lash Family Stollen

It may not be officially winter yet, but it certainly feels that way. It’s cold and snowy out, and Christmas is fast approaching. Since there are no more fresh CSA vegetables to write about, we’ve decided to spend a bit of time focusing on holiday baking.

Date: 26 Nov 2013

Comment: 1

Tag: chard, CSA, healthy food, recipes, winter squash

Butternut Squash Part II: or, another great option for your Thanksgiving table

I am probably not the only one who is sad that there are no new CSA vegetables this week. I will miss my weekly trips to the CSA barn, not to mention all the lovely vegetables in my kitchen. I suspect that I'm also not the only one, though, whose CSA share will last at least a few weeks into the future.