Submitted by Jeff Hake on Tue, 04/01/2014 – 9:25am Over the melon field at Broadturn Farm, Scarborough, ME. Traditionally speaking, I’ve never been a farmer. The title implies land ownership, independence, and ruggedness. Having never been a land owner or numero uno on a farm and certainly having never cut a rugged figure, I didn’t […]
Life on a Kenyan Farm
Submitted by Akshita Siddula on Mon, 03/24/2014 – 4:54pm Last fall I was interning at an international nonprofit organization in Mombasa, Kenya and staying with a host family. My family consisted of six direct siblings and two loving parents. While some of my siblings were older and lived outside of the home, the three that […]
my imagination hurts
Submitted by Magdalena Casper on Thu, 03/20/2014 – 4:02pm This morning, I texted one of my friends “my imagination hurts.” One of the big projects we are working on now is a USDA Specialty Crop Block Grant to help farmers use social media in their marketing. As part of this, we are creating five monthly […]
Story. Personality. Soul.
Submitted by Jeff Hake on Mon, 03/17/2014 – 11:31am Story. Personality. Soul. I have discovered of late, in my new work with The Land Connection, that it is these things, not corn or milk or hayrides, that the new wave of entrepreneurial farmers is selling. This year’s MOSES conference was rife with this sentiment. “You […]
Meet Shea Belahi, our first incubator farmer!
Submitted by Jeff Hake on Tue, 03/11/2014 – 10:12am Shea Belahi talks about vegetables the way some people talk about their fellow humans. “Each variety has a name, a story, and great flavor,” she says. “It’s easy to have people connect with their food through the history of the varieties of vegetables we grow.” She’s […]
#moses2014
Submitted by Magdalena Casper on Mon, 03/03/2014 – 11:46am The Land Connection went to the MOSES (Midwest Organic Sustainable Educational Service) conference this weekend. The social media platform Twitter became a vital ingredient of the trip. Cara mandated we tweet for MOSES, so Jeff and I were thrown into the deep end of the social […]
