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”
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farm to nutcracker
Listen to Nutwood Farm’s LIVE Interview with Farm to Fork on Valley Free Radio 103.3 FM — May 16, 2017
the second year
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”
the end is the beginning
3/13/17 There are no words. In less than a week, you have helped us surpass our campaign funding goal! What happens when you fear your expectations are too high, and then you find out they weren’t high enough? We are in awe. We’ve experienced some beautiful things in our lives, but this is pure fire. Continue reading “the end is the beginning”
regenerative agriculture: an ethos
First organic, then sustainable, now regenerative? Language is powerful. We are always searching for better ways to express ourselves and frame our actions – sometimes we seem to reach the limits of our language, and other times we manage to birth a whole new cosmos in a single word. Regenerative Farming is like that. Imagine:Continue reading “regenerative agriculture: an ethos”
front page of the gazette!
Cummington pair look to pioneer nut farming in Western Mass. Sara Tower points out catkins, the male flowers, on a hazelnut tree last week at Nutwood Farm in Cummington. GAZETTE STAFF/Carol Lollis– Buy this Image By NICOLE DEFEUDIS For the Hampshire Gazette Feb 7, 2017 CUMMINGTON — When Sara Tower began farming about eightContinue reading “front page of the gazette!”
a house of straw
The ground is officially quite frozen – hurrah! With about two dozen hazelnuts displaying beautiful and adorable little male catkins in their very first year (planted bare root this past spring), we couldn’t be more excited about what the future holds for Nutwood Farm. Of the 225 hazelnuts we put in the ground, there wereContinue reading “a house of straw”
slow food, slow money
Entrepreneurs talk expansion at slow money showcase –Oct 23, 2016 Sara Tower and Kalyan Uprichard, who own Nutwood Farm in Cummington, speak about their business during the Slow Money Pioneer Valley Entrepreneur Showcase, Thursday at Smith College. GAZETTE STAFF/JERREY ROBERTS » Buy this Image By CAITLIN ASHWORTH NORTHAMPTON — About 110 years ago, Joseph Serio started sellingContinue reading “slow food, slow money”
the ecological shift
Seasons change is by far the greatest part of living in the northeast country. When the first day of September arrived, the change in light, in temperature, in sound, in breath, was like a warm mid-afternoon nap in dapple shade on a luxurious moss bed. At last… Our field is outrageously overgrown. We are unceremoniously snapping offContinue reading “the ecological shift”
drilling down and up
The last few weeks we’ve been in the high-noon of a brief and delightful summer. Work both on and off site has kept us busy — sorry for any delayed or lacking correspondance! We have been gradually (and not very successfully) trying to keep up with the vigorous burst of early succession regrowth in our new field.Continue reading “drilling down and up”