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For the second year, Nutwood Farm has submitted an educational display to the Cummington Fair Agricultural Hall during the 151st Annual Fair!  This year’s display focuses on swale and berm earthworks: how to lay out, build, and plant a swale system to maximize water retention, manage flash flooding events, and mitigate drought on the farm.Continue reading “going to the fair!”

 This summer, Gettysburg College student Miriam Martinez (pictured, right) filmed a short documentary of her week-long internship at Nutwood Farm and unscripted interview with Seva and Kalyan. About the filmmaker: Miriam grew up in San Rafael, CA and is planning to major in Environmental Science and minor in Women & Gender Studies.  She was the founderContinue reading “week on the farm – video documentary”

By Grace Herron, Gettysburg College, sophomore In today’s world, I feel as though individuals no longer have that same connection to the land that existed so many years ago. Through Gettysburg’s Career Development program, I was able to attend a week-long externship in Massachusetts at Nutwood Farm, run by Seva Tower- a Gettysburg alumni- and KalyanContinue reading “guest blog: summer externship”

Death, Life & Rebirth: News from the Nut Farm – Spring 2018 Check out our Spring 2018 newsletter for our latest updates!  Blessings & happy growing season!

Check out our latest fall/winter newsletter and farm update: Barns, Ducks, and NYNGAS: News from the Nut Farm | Fall/Winter 2017 Please subscribe if you’d like to be added to our mailing list and keep in touch! Happy solstice and new year ☀

With the temperatures dropping and the lush green of summer beginning to fade from the hills into the muted and brilliant crisp colors of fall, we have held steady in our persistence, day by day, block by block.  This past season has served us up plenty of humble pie as we learn, slowly and manyContinue reading “humility and the flow”

After spending two full days at the Slow Living Summit in Brattleboro with other food, agriculture, and permaculture entrepreneurs, we are walking away with some keen insights and incisive questions to add to our farm business meetings – a.k.a. dinner table conversations. First, slow money.  As high-risk farmer-entrepreneurs who aim to measure our true successContinue reading “slow money, conscious capitalism, and economic sufficiency”

The good thing about having already done the seemingly impossible is that everything else feels like it has to be more manageable by default! Last year our 2,450 ft 11-row swale installation and planting of 450+ fruit and nut trees and shrubs was only possible because we didn’t know it wasn’t!  This year, we haveContinue reading “the second year”