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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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Accokeek Foundation
- Mar 30, 2017
- 3 min
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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Accokeek Foundation
- Nov 19, 2015
- 4 min
Piscataway Voices: A Homecoming Story
Remember and honor the old ones, our traditions, our values, and the events – good and bad – that have shaped who were are as a people.
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Accokeek Foundation
- Jan 16, 2015
- 2 min
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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Accokeek Foundation
- Jun 16, 2014
- 1 min
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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Accokeek Foundation
- Jun 13, 2014
- 2 min
From the Field: On Farm Market Season Opening Weekend at the Ecosystem Farm
I am extremely excited about this weekend! Tomorrow (aka: Saturday) will be the season opening of our on farm market, and I can’t wait to...
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Accokeek Foundation
- Nov 12, 2013
- 1 min
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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Accokeek Foundation
- Nov 5, 2013
- 2 min
Volunteer Gleaning Day on the Ecosystem Farm
It was a beautiful day on the farm last Saturday as 19 volunteers took on the task of freeing fence lines from creeping vegetation and...
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Accokeek Foundation
- Sep 6, 2013
- 2 min
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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Accokeek Foundation
- Jun 25, 2013
- 2 min
What’s Growing on the Ecosystem Farm?
The farm crew preps the fields for planting by laying plastic which helps to maintain soil moisture and temperature, while aiding in weed...
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Accokeek Foundation
- May 22, 2013
- 1 min
Livestock Farmhands Volunteers
Godiva, one of our spring Hog Island Sheep lambs. If you love animals and would like to spend a few hours each week working on the farm,...
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Accokeek Foundation
- Oct 16, 2012
- 1 min
Countless Green
by Becky Seward This is a poem I wrote in 2006 for my undergraduate thesis at St. Mary’s College of Maryland, but I still find it...
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Accokeek Foundation
- May 18, 2012
- 2 min
The Satisfactions of Farming
by Becky Seward, Ecosystem Farm Manager (Written to the CSA community and published in this week’s edition of Field Notes.) I write to...
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abarnes86
- Nov 10, 2011
- 2 min
Food Justice Series Speakers
The following are the invited speakers to present on the panel during the next installment of the Food Justice Series held at Busboys and...
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