A bird's eye view of the making of a farm

Here at the top of Moose Hill, we see a lot of small private planes flying over head every day.  They usually are flying fairly low and my guess is that they are heading into land at the Norwood airport.  Sometimes I wonder how much detail the pilot can see of the farm.  Has the pilot been making this trip for years?  Have they made it several times this season?  How cool it must be to have seen the growth of this farm from up above!

I can imagine them seeing the very first fields being plowed this time last year - brown soil where there had always been green grass.  Just one lonely farmer on a tractor for several weeks.  Then maybe they noticed the tall well-digging equipment last winter.  Land was cleared for a building - what are they trying to build in all that snow?  Oh, a greenhouse slowly takes shape.  Last spring they would have seen a new tiny building and what are all those brown specs running around it?  Why, those are chickens! And each week their tiny house is in a new spot and over time that pasture turns more and more green thanks so those little fertilizing machines.

Maybe the pilot peered down last spring and summer and saw more and more people moving around the fields.  The brown plowed fields are now green with life.  There is a large group of people on hands and knees planting and weeding and over there is a family picking cherry tomatoes. In all kinds of weather the people can be seen working; the crew's bright yellow raincoats and rainpants must have been quite the sight!

In our last week of Moose Hill Farm's first-ever CSA, the crew and I would like to extend our thanks again for joining us.  Not just to receive tasty vegetables every week but for supporting a farm that believes in using sustinable growing practices, that believes everyone has the right to healthy food, that livestock should be treated with the utmost care, that training new farmers is essential to rebuilding a local food system, that protects the surrounding ecosystem, and that is trying to bring balance back to the way we eat, grow and view our food.  Thank you for being a part of everything that Moose Hill stands for and we hope you join us again next year. 


In your final week, please enjoy spinach, chard, scallions, a choice of leeks or onions, a choice of kohlrabi or cabbage, rutabega, turnips, and butternut squash.  More peppers are for sale also.  Need more winter vegetables?  Don't forget about our fall farm stand days on Nov 3rd and Nov 16th.  More details coming next week!  Also don't forget that sign-ups for next year for current CSA members is going on now...the general public will be able to sign up starting on the fall farm stand days.