Part 2
By Horse and by Hand
Hillside Springs Farm in Westmoreland, New Hampshire, is the small, draft horse powered CSA farm of Kim Peavey and Frank Hunter. On three acres they grow over 100 varieties of vegetables, berries, herbs, flowers, and mushrooms. The farm also produces freshly pressed apple cider. They only use sustainable, organic, and biodynamic farming methods, though the farm is not certified.
Every week during harvest season, early June to late November, 50 local families pick up their vegetables and fruits on the farm or at the farmers market in the nearby town of Keene. Kim and Frank like to be transparent about their way of farming: "The ongoing relationship between farmers, CSA members, and the farmland allows us all to understand what's happening on the farm without a third-party certification process. Members have the opportunity to observe, ask questions, and even pitch in!"
You can find this story on the terrafoto website.
By Horse and by Hand
Hillside Springs Farm in Westmoreland, New Hampshire, is the small, draft horse powered CSA farm of Kim Peavey and Frank Hunter. On three acres they grow over 100 varieties of vegetables, berries, herbs, flowers, and mushrooms. The farm also produces freshly pressed apple cider. They only use sustainable, organic, and biodynamic farming methods, though the farm is not certified.
Every week during harvest season, early June to late November, 50 local families pick up their vegetables and fruits on the farm or at the farmers market in the nearby town of Keene. Kim and Frank like to be transparent about their way of farming: "The ongoing relationship between farmers, CSA members, and the farmland allows us all to understand what's happening on the farm without a third-party certification process. Members have the opportunity to observe, ask questions, and even pitch in!"
You can find this story on the terrafoto website.
Part 3
A Place for a Chat or a Tasty Carrot
Proeftuin van Linschoten is a new market garden in the village of Linschoten in the Netherlands. It is run by four women: initiator Natascha Boel and gardeners Matty Vink, Emma Smeets, and Jantien Meijer, with the help of many community volunteers. Together they are transforming an old, four acre pear orchard into a nature-inclusive vegetable, herbs and fruit garden. The project is subsidized by the European Fund for Rural Development and the Dutch province of Utrecht.
The 'Taste Garden of Linschoten' is situated on the bank of a small river on Landgoed Linschoten, a private estate consisting of a mansion, surrounded by woods and pastures. 2022 was a pilot year, to see if the soil, a very dense river clay, would be suitable for growing vegetables. It was a big succes: the garden exploded with veggies and flowers, which attracted many pollinating insects.
Winter and spring of 2023 brought a flurry of building activity of a different sort. For months the garden looked more like a muddy battlefield than a sunny paradise: irrigation and power lines were installed in trenches, pear trees were uprooted and replanted to make way for two glasshouses and two tiny eco-lodges. Nesting-boxes were mounted in the hedgerow for 26 different bird species.
Finally, the gardeners were able to sow and plant and sell their first CSA shares. The shareholders are encouraged to self-harvest. They receive a weekly harvest email with online links to Youtube clips in which gardeners Matty and Emma explain how to cut spinach so it will grow back for a second cutting, or how to detach a head of lettuce from its roots by carefully turning it around. In four years they hope Proeftuin van Linschoten will be a viable business, so that it can continue reconnecting people, nature and agriculture.
You can read interviews with the four female gardeners in which they talk about their motivations to become vegetable farmers here. You can find a longer Dutch story about this garden here and the English version of this long story on the terrafoto website.
A Place for a Chat or a Tasty Carrot
Proeftuin van Linschoten is a new market garden in the village of Linschoten in the Netherlands. It is run by four women: initiator Natascha Boel and gardeners Matty Vink, Emma Smeets, and Jantien Meijer, with the help of many community volunteers. Together they are transforming an old, four acre pear orchard into a nature-inclusive vegetable, herbs and fruit garden. The project is subsidized by the European Fund for Rural Development and the Dutch province of Utrecht.
The 'Taste Garden of Linschoten' is situated on the bank of a small river on Landgoed Linschoten, a private estate consisting of a mansion, surrounded by woods and pastures. 2022 was a pilot year, to see if the soil, a very dense river clay, would be suitable for growing vegetables. It was a big succes: the garden exploded with veggies and flowers, which attracted many pollinating insects.
Winter and spring of 2023 brought a flurry of building activity of a different sort. For months the garden looked more like a muddy battlefield than a sunny paradise: irrigation and power lines were installed in trenches, pear trees were uprooted and replanted to make way for two glasshouses and two tiny eco-lodges. Nesting-boxes were mounted in the hedgerow for 26 different bird species.
Finally, the gardeners were able to sow and plant and sell their first CSA shares. The shareholders are encouraged to self-harvest. They receive a weekly harvest email with online links to Youtube clips in which gardeners Matty and Emma explain how to cut spinach so it will grow back for a second cutting, or how to detach a head of lettuce from its roots by carefully turning it around. In four years they hope Proeftuin van Linschoten will be a viable business, so that it can continue reconnecting people, nature and agriculture.
You can read interviews with the four female gardeners in which they talk about their motivations to become vegetable farmers here. You can find a longer Dutch story about this garden here and the English version of this long story on the terrafoto website.
Farming for the Neighbors
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Farming for the Neighbors
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