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Hampshire College Farm

buckets of collard and chard

Date: 20 Aug 2019

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Tag: chard, collards, CSA, farm, Food Systems, ginger, Hampshire College Farm, healthy food, ice cream, Local Food, radicchio, recipes, Support, Sustainable Agriculture, veggies

New this semester – cooking tips, recipes, and what to do with your CSA share!

Are you a new student CSA member? Don’t know a chef’s knife from a paring knife? Can’t tell the difference between collards and chard? Never fear, the Food, Farm, and Sustainability Blog is here for you! This semester, we will posting weekly recipes, cooking skills, and announcements of classes or other events to help you learn how to cook (or become a better cook than you already are), how t

pumpkin with cartoon bird painted on it

Date: 11 Oct 2018

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Tag: fall festival, food, games, Hampshire College Farm, Local Food, music, pumpkins

Farm Fall Festival!!

Come celebrate local, sustainable food and farming at the Fall Farm Festival during Alumni and Friends weekend on Saturday, Oct 20th, 12-4 pm! Join us for music, food, games, pumpkin painting, face painting, farm animals, a farmer’s market, popcorn, cider, and apple cider doughnuts! This year’s bands, featuring Hampshire staff, alumni, and students, will be: 12:00 – 2:00 pm – The Monday Projec

farm crew with dog sitting on tractor

Date: 03 Jul 2018

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Tag: academics, animals, crew, crops, Faces behind your Food, Food Systems, Hampshire College Farm, Local Food, plants, Research, vegetables

Farming’s Future: Welcome to the New Summer Farm Crew!!

Another busy season is underway here at the Hampshire College Farm. This summer we have a terrific group of hardworking interns helping with everything from raising chickens to pounding tomato stakes. One hot afternoon, while cooling off over some ice-cold drinks and popsicles, we asked them about their experiences so far and their future plans. Blue DuRard Keller, a Hampshire College student, says that he has romant

group of students cheering sweet pototo harvest

Date: 29 Jun 2018

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Tag: dining hall, donate, funds, giving, Hampshire College, Hampshire College Farm, Local Food, match, pigs, Support

Support Hampshire College and the Farm – Donate by June 30th for a 1:1 Match

We hope you love Hampshire College – and the Hampshire College Farm – as much as we do. All the great work that gets done here, from a student-run heritage pig breeding program to delivering fresh, sustainably-grown Hampshire College Farm produce directly the campus dining hall, can only be done with your support. Together, let’s raise $150,000 between now and June 30th to support these great initiatives

Students learning about tractors

Date: 26 Jun 2018

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Tag: animals, cattle, chickens, CSA, dining hall, Faces behind your Food, farm, flowers, Food Systems, Hampshire College Farm, herbs, kittens, lambs, Local Food, piglets, pigs, vegetables

What’s happening at the farm?

There are so many things happening at the farm right now, it’s hard to keep track! First, we want to welcome our new summer student crew. These terrific students work hard all summer long planting, weeding, watering, and harvesting to bring the Hampshire College community its fresh vegetables, herbs, and flowers for the dining hall and the Hampshire College CSA. They also help tend the animals – including

Farmer waving from tractor

Date: 29 May 2018

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Tag: Faces behind your Food, Food Systems, Hampshire College Farm, healthy food transition, Local Food

Faces Behind Your Food Presents: Farmer Jason Dragon

Welcome to the third of our Faces Behind Your Food interviews, this time with Jason Dragon, Assistant Director for Vegetables and Student Outreach. We hope this series has helped you learn more about the folks behind your food here at Hampshire College. Hopefully we will be able to continue this series next semester. In the meantime, thanks for watching!

Date: 08 May 2018

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Tag: animals, Faces behind your Food, food system, Hampshire College Farm, pasture

Welcome to Mo Phelon, Assistant Director for Livestock and Pasture!

Please join the Hampshire College Farm in welcoming our new Assistant Director for Livestock and Pasture, Maureen (Mo) Phelon! Mo joins us from Westfield, MA, where she and her family raise Milking Shorthorn show cattle and shorthorn beef, along with a combination of many other farm animals. Her passion for working with animals encouraged her to attend SUNY Cobleskill and continue on to Cornell University, where she

Nursing sow with 5 piglets

Date: 22 Feb 2018

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Tag: animals, Faces behind your Food, Hampshire College Farm, jobs, pasture, pigs

Now hiring! Assistant Director for Livestock and Pasture

Assistant Director-Livestock/Pasture Hampshire College Farm Center Hampshire College, an independent, innovative liberal arts institution and member of the Five College consortium, is accepting applications for an assistant director – livestock/pasture for its Farm Center. The Hampshire College Farm is a thriving working farm providing campus and community members with organically grown produce and past

farmer on tractor next to student with hoe

Date: 13 Feb 2018

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Tag: animals, Food Systems, Hampshire College Farm, interns, Local Food, summer, Sustainable Agriculture, veggies

Hampshire College Farm Summer Internship

Hampshire College Farm Summer Internship Starting date: May 21, 2018 Ending date: September 3, 2018 Pay rate: $11/hour The Hampshire College Farm Summer Internship Program provides a hands-on working and learning experience designed for college students interested in sustainable agriculture. Interns will work alongside farm staff to carry out daily operations of the farm’s diverse pastured livestock and organic veget

Members of food system panel sitting at table

Date: 22 Dec 2017

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Tag: dining commons, Faces behind your Food, food system, Food Systems, Hampshire College Farm, HampStore, healthy food, Kern Cafe, Local Food, Mixed Nuts, recipes

What’s new? A Hampshire College Food Systems Panel… and Cooking Class!

Here at Hampshire College we continue to make progress on our food systems work. Earlier this fall our Food Systems team conducted a survey of first year students in the dining hall, and discovered that few of them had a good grasp on what exactly the Hampshire College food system was or how it worked. To remedy this, we worked in conjunction with the Bon Appetit Fellow, Shira Kaufmann, and came up with both a Food S

Date: 25 Oct 2017

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Tag: alumni, Faces behind your Food, fall festival, Hampshire College, Hampshire College Farm, Local Food, pigs, pumpkins

Thanks to volunteers, the Hampshire College Fall Festival was a big success!!

Thank you to all of the wonderful volunteers who made the Fall Festival such a success!! From selling popcorn to monitoring traffic, from pressing apple cider to showing off pigs, we really appreciate your hard work, and couldn’t have done it without you! Thank you, thank you!! Thanks also to the bands, the vendors, and, of course, all of the visitors who came out visit the farm. We hope you had a great time an

3 people in cafeteria behind table featuring local food

Date: 03 Oct 2017

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Tag: 100% Local, Bon Appetit, dining commons, Faces behind your Food, Food Systems, Hampshire College Farm, Local Food

Hampshire College Farm and Bon Appetit team up for a big win!!

Congratulations to Executive Chef Jamil Asad for his Local Food Challenge meal on September 26th, which was in the top three out of 44,000 Bon Appetit submissions in the country!! It featured primarily Hampshire College Farm produce, with a few additional products from Horse Listener’s Orchard and Four Star Farms. Go Team Local!! Did we mention that it was delicious? Because it sure was!! As many readers of thi

red and golden roasted beets

Date: 25 Sep 2017

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Tag: beets, CSA, farm share, Hampshire College Farm, Local Food, recipes

Help! What do I do with all of these vegetables…??

So you are doing your part to support the Hampshire College Farm and you bought a CSA share. Thank you! Every week you pick up an exciting array of delicious, ripe, organic produce (some of which is unfamiliar to you – but hey – it looks so good!)… and then you don’t quite know what to do with it. Sadly, it sits in your fridge and slowly shrivels and rots until eventually you toss it in the co

Date: 24 Aug 2017

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Tag: Hampshire College Farm, Ray Coppinger, Research

In Memoriam: Ray Coppinger, founding faculty member of Hampshire College and the Farm

The Hampshire College Farm is saddened by the passing of Ray Coppinger, internationally-renowned animal behaviorist and founding faculty member of both Hampshire College and the Hampshire College Farm. As many of you may know, the Hampshire College Farm originated in the late 70s as a research facility centered around a variety of aspects of raising sheep. One prominent part of the research involved animal behavior &

Date: 23 Aug 2017

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Tag: bacon, CSA, gluten-free, Hampshire College Farm, Local Food, peppers, recipes

Hot pepper poppers recipe by Shannon Rosa

This delicious recipe for hot pepper poppers come to us courtesy of Hampshire Farm CSA member Shannon Rosa. It can be made using both hot peppers and bacon from the farm. Recipe: A variety of peppers (I used 8 jalapeño, one Hungarian yellow and one poblano.) 8 oz of cream cheese 3/4 cup shredded sharp cheddar cheese 1 finely minced spring onion 1/2 pound of bacon, slices cut in half, extra fat trimmed f

Nancy Hanson in field harvesting veggies

Date: 20 Jun 2017

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Tag: award, community, CSA, excellence, Faces behind your Food, Hampshire College Farm, Nancy Hanson

Nancy Hanson – 2017 Carol and Blair Brown Staff Excellence Award Winner!!

Congratulations to the Farm’s own Nancy Hanson, CSA Manager and 2017 winner of the Carol and Blair Brown Award for Staff Excellence!! This prestigious, community-based award recognizes a staff member’s exceptional contribution to the College. As one letter of support says, “At Hampshire College, Nancy has provided exceptional service, created cross-campus connections, fostered diversity and i

Date: 15 Jun 2017

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Tag: Conference, Hampshire College, Hampshire College Farm, healthy food, NOFA, Organic, Small Farms, solutions, summer, Sustainable Agriculture

NOFA Summer Conference returns to Hampshire College!

Be part of this annual celebration of the organic movement! 2017 NOFA Summer Conference August 11-13, 2017 Hampshire College, Amherst, Mass. The NOFA Summer Conference is a three day solutions-oriented annual celebration of the grassroots organic movement. Gardeners, farmers, growers and food-lovers from across the Northeast will again share their inspiration and ideas for organic food, farming, health, activism, and

lambs in grass with CSA barn

Date: 13 Jun 2017

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Tag: Hampshire College, Hampshire College Farm, healthy food transition, strategic plan

Proposed Five-Year Strategic Plan for the Hampshire College Farm

The Farm STAR Committee has been working hard on a Five-Year Strategic Plan for the Hampshire College Farm. Please see the attached draft (dated May 17, 2017) to learn more about the Farm’s mission, vision, and goals for the next five years. Five-Year Strategic Plan for the Hampshire College Farm 5.17.17

Date: 03 Nov 2015

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Tag: 100% Local, Food Systems, Hampshire College Farm, Local Food

Report: Accounting Systems for the 100% Local Food Challenge By Joshua Minot and Shelby Gaiss

In March of 2015, student interns Joshua Minot F12 and Shelby Gaiss F13 were tasked to track and record Bon Appetit’s local purchasing practices in the context of Hampshire’s 100% Local Food Challenge and to conduct preliminary research and analysis around the Real Food Challenge in comparison to Hampshire’s Sustainable Food Purchasing Guidelines. Over the past several months, the interns have worked to identify all

Date: 10 Apr 2015

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Tag: Faces behind your Food, Hampshire College Farm, Local Food, maple sugar

A Sugaring Story: Reflections on a New England Tradition

Hampshire College farmers Jason Dragon and Pete Solis led the maple sugaring efforts at Hampshire College this spring. With the help of student workers, they collected 1100 gallons of maple sap from 150 trees across campus, which they boiled down to 20 gallons of delicious maple syrup. Read a firsthand account of this age-old New England tradition from Farmer Jason: In late February, in the midst of a long brutal win

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