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Nurturing Young Minds Through Service Learning

On June 7, the blueberries weren’t quite ripe yet. A few weeks before, eight students lovingly weeded and side-dressed the blueberry...

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Permaculture Design Certificate Course – UPDATE

This past weekend, Permaculture course participants studied Natural Building and Passive Solar Energy at the Ecosystem Farm in Piscataway...

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Learn how to farm with a Ecosystem Farm workshare

The Accokeek Foundation is seeking workshare volunteers for the growing season. If you are interested in the principles of sustainable...

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The Kerouac Crusaders: Cross-Country Travelling Volunteers

Crusaders, Erika “Riks” Enriquez and Nicole “Nics” Fleming, are spending the summer of 2014 travelling across the U.S., visiting 15...

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Enlightening Consumers

by Rebecca Cecere Seward Training farmers to fill this increasing demand is at the core of the current mission of the Ecosystem Farm, but...

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Roots, Fruits, Leaves and Spice

by Rebecca Cecere Seward Planning for a CSA is a difficult lesson in making choices, as I have found these last two seasons, and I often...

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Harvest Festival: The Way of Food

Fee for food, general admission is free. For more information contact info@accokeek.org or visit www.accokeek.org. #agriculture...

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Dirty Fingernails (reflections of a farm apprentice)

by Susan Cook, Ecosystem Farm Apprentice (an excerpt from Field Notes, week 3) It’s a little after noon and it’s time to eat lunch. I...