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August 2017 Written by Community Engagement Manager, Kim Kneeland I came to this farm in 2014, and now that IΓÇÖm in my fourth season, it is interesting to look back at my first impressions of Wright-Locke Farm. Hired as a field assistant, and having no familiarity with the area (IΓÇÖm from Central Mass originally), I...
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Dietetics Meets Farming
July 2017 Guest post written by: Brianna Trainor, MPH coordinated dietetics student at UMass Lowell For those of you that donΓÇÖt know me, my name is Brianna and I am in my third and final year at the University of Massachusetts, Lowell for my masters of public health with a concentration in dietetics. As we... -
Wright-Locke’s “Night-time Farmers”
Written by Amy Rindskopf, Event Manager The month of May means many things in the FarmΓÇÖs calendar ΓÇô seedlings start to leave the greenhouse for the fields, after-school education programs return, and the farm stand moves from once-a-week eggs-only towards a full week with veggies, eggs, and delicious snacks. For the Farm event team, it…
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From Field to Vase
~April 2017~ Written by Ruth Trimarchi, Manager of Flower Operations We Start Anew As a norΓÇÖeaster bears down on our small greenhouse, it is hard to imagine that these dozens of trays of inch-high flowers will soon fill those snow-covered fields outside. But this is how flower season at Wright-Locke Farm starts. In February the…
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A Glimpse of the Life of a Farmer
~March 2017~ Written by: Adrienne Altstatt, Farm Manager As the first employee of the Wright-Locke Farm Conservancy, I came to the farm in April of 2011 thinking I would be here for just a year. But now, six years later and about to start my seventh growing season, one might say IΓÇÖve settled in. I…
