Local NewsWed. 5/29 6-8pm Edible Wild Food Forage Walk with Russ CohenThu 16 May 2013 9:57am Wednesday, May 29 — Forage walk at Stearns Farm with Russ Cohen, 6-8 pm. For more information see  http://users.rcn.com/eatwild/bio.htmA WILD RAMBLEOn May 29, the Stearns Farm community will have the opportunity to experience something quite original. The Sudbury River Valley is home to over 100 species of edible wild plants, many of which are even more nutritious than their cultivated counterparts. Russ Cohen, expert forager and author of Wild Plants I Have Known...and Eaten, will be taking us on a two hour ramble through Stearns Farm and the adjacent woodlands to learn about more than two dozen species of edible wild plants. Pending favorable weather conditions, several edible mushroom species may be encountered as well. Keys to identifying each species will be provided, along with information on edible portions, seasons of availability and preparation methods. Russ will also give us general guidelines for safe and environmentally-responsible foraging.Russ will have a few copies of his book for sale. Proceeds support the Essex County Greenbelt Association. Invite your friends. Free for members, $5 for non-members (or non-members can become a member for $5) proceeds to support Stearn's educational mission. You won’t want to miss out on this unique adventure! more here . . . 2013 Summer Shares Availability Tue 16 Apr 2013 8:37pm We are currently sold out for 2013, but we are accepting applications for a waiting list in the event we have a last-minute cancellation.Thanks, Frann more here . . . Yard Sale to raise funds for the Barn Sat 15 Sep 2012 1:24pm Let's Build that Barn Yard SaleA long-standing goal of Stearns has been to build a barn. A barn would provide desperately needed storage space as well as provide proper conditions for curing and storing onions and garlic. It would improve the traffic flow of the farming tasks and improve the quality of working conditions for the farmers.The Stearns Farm Yard Sale to benefit “Raising the Barn” will be held on Saturday 10/6/12. This Yard Sale will be at St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church (3 Maple Street) in Framingham. We will be holding the Yard Sale from 9 – 2 PM. Below is a schedule of times that you can bring your donated Yard Sale items to St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church where we have a storage room.
In order for this to be a successful fundraising event, your help is needed. We need folks for set up/take down and to help staff our tables during the sale. We also need lightweight tables to use during the yard sale. We can sell all kinds of household items that you may have sitting around: children’s toys and equipment (no cribs or car seats), children’s clothes, books, puzzles, games, small pieces of furniture, dishes and decorative housewares, etc. We’re sorry that we can not accept the following items as donations for the Yard Sale: electronics, TVs, computers, medical supplies, car seats, puzzles and toys with broken and/or missing pieces, or any items needing repair. We suggest that you put a sticker with a price on your item; we can adjust if necessary. Please email Gail at dtapscottcharter.net or Nancy at nancycstonegmail.com with questions and offers to help! more here . . . All about Honeybees and Beekeeping with Birgit deWeerd Fri 31 Aug 2012 10:10am
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Global NewsErnest Callenbach (1929-2012) Author of Ecotopia — His final wordsMon 7 May 2012 10:52am Published in 1975, I never heard of or read Ecotopia until a few years ago. It's about 2.5 states that secede to form a nation based on ecological principles. I kept saying to myself, this is no pipedream — this could really work! Anyway, I recommend the book and also Ernest Callenbach's final espistle: [This document was found on the computer of Ecotopia author Ernest Callenbach (1929-2012) after his death.]
As I survey my life, which is coming near its end, I want to set down a few thoughts that might be useful to those coming after. It will soon be time for me to give back to Gaia the nutrients that I have used during a long, busy, and happy life. I am not bitter or resentful at the approaching end; I have been one of the extraordinarily lucky ones. So it behooves me here to gather together some thoughts and attitudes that may prove useful in the dark times we are facing: a century or more of exceedingly difficult times. How will those who survive manage it? What can we teach our friends, our children, our communities? Although we may not be capable of changing history, how can we equip ourselves to survive it? I contemplate these questions in the full consciousness of my own mortality. Being offered an actual number of likely months to live, even though the estimate is uncertain, mightily focuses the mind. On personal things, of course, on loved ones and even loved things, but also on the Big Picture. more here . . . Occupy Wall Street stand on farming practices: "They have poisoned the food supply through negligence, and undermined the farming system through monopolization. They have profited off the torture, confinement, and cruel treatment of countless animals, and actively hide these practices." Tue 18 Oct 2011 5:02pm The title above is an excerpt from a statement by the Occupy Wall Street general assembly as read by Keith Olberman on October 5. You can listen to it here or read the full statement below:
How Industrial Farming 'Destroyed' The Tasty Tomato Wed 5 Oct 2011 8:59am If you bite into a tomato between the months of October and June, chances are that tomato came from Florida. ... But the tomatoes grown in Florida differ dramatically from the red garden varieties you might grow in your backyard. They're bred to be perfectly formed — so that they can make their way across the U.S. and onto your dinner table without cracking or breaking. "For the last 50 or more years, tomato breeders have concentrated essentially on one thing and that is yield — they want plants that yield as many or as much as possible,...They also want those fruits to be able to stand up to being harvested, packed, artificially turned orange [with ethylene gas] and then shipped away and still be holding together in the supermarket a week or 10 days later." Read the whole NPR story heremore here . . . What is Sustainability? Tue 12 Jul 2011 8:03am more here . . . sptest0  stearnsfarmcsa.org |
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