Register for the Green Team Community Service Internship at www.needhamfarm.org Experience Needham from field to fork while developing valuable skills and an understanding of environmental sustainability. • Learn the practice and art of sustainable agriculture • Learn the impacts of our current food policies on ourselves and the environment • Learn how you can help …read more
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Gardeners in Training – Rising 3rd through 5th Graders, 8/27 – 8/30
Join a group of rising 3rd-5th Graders at the Needham Community Farm for a few days of learning about what grows at the Farm, Seeds and Weeds, Flowers and Plant Pollination, and Composting. We will use ice breakers to get everyone involved, a scavenger hunt, hands on activities and help with some chores around the …read more
Needham Community Farm Classes
Class registration for the Needham Community Farm family gardening education program has begun. Join your neighbors and friends at the Needham Community Farm this spring and summer for either our Beginning or Intermediate Organic Gardening classes. You will learn all you need to know to start, grow and harvest your own vegetables during the 6-month growing …read more
Needham Community Farm Summer Opportunity
The Needham Community Farm is offering a unique educational experience this summer that will teach participants how to plan, prepare and maintain a vegetable garden using organic methods. Each week of this exciting series will have a different instructional focus as participants go through the process of planting and maintaining a 12 ft x 4 ft raised bed at …read more
Great Progress for Needham Community Farm!
On May 22nd, the Needham Community Farm (NCF) broke ground at our new location off Pine Street. Over 40 volunteers, children and adults, spent the day building raised beds, to be used for educational programs at the site. These beds will also provide fresh produce to the Needham Food Pantry and the community. The NCF …read more
Green Kids and Cancun Climate Negotiators Take Action
This year’s Green Kids Needham theme is “Endangered Habitats.” Throughout the year, students at each elementary school will participate in a variety of activities intended to increase their knowledge about endangered habitats and encourage their involvement in solutions. Programs will include adopting endangered animals through the World Wildlife Fund, promoting the Nike Reuse-a-Shoe drive (saving …read more
Farmers Markets
Winter Farmers Markets – 2010/2011 Ongoing Winter Markets: Sunday: Dedham, Sunday, 10:00 am – 2:00 pm, Year Round, 626 High Street Fairhaven, Sunday, 1:00 pm – 4:00 pm, October 24, November 21 and December 19th, Nemasket Building on the corner of Bridge and Green Street Newburyport, Sunday, November 7 to December 19, 10:00 am – …read more
Needham Community Farm – 350.org Event
The Needham Community Farm hosted a 350.org “International Work Party” last week which was co-sponsored by the Green Needham Collaborative and First Parish Church. “Work party” volunteers helped winterize the NCF pilot gardens by layering newspapers and hay over the vegetable beds. The group had lots of fun working and enjoyed snacking on apples generously …read more
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