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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”

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”

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”

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”

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”

Hi Everyone, We have been hard at work digging our new contour swales and mulching them with woodchips, and the end is in sight. We are almost done! Huge thanks to everyone who has helped out so far and now comes the fun part! We have 413 new bare-root nut and companion trees that needContinue reading “we’re planting trees!”

Friday-Saturday, April 29-30th | 9am-5pm Greetings permafriends! We are getting ready to install a series of contour swales across two acres of our new property in Cummington, MA in preparation for a large-scale planting of hybrid hazelnuts, chestnuts, and other mixed perennial edible trees and shrubs.  We are looking for enthusiastic helpers to cut their pdcContinue reading “broadacre earthworks”