Composting: New Life

By Monica Elliott Turning the compost is Andy’s favorite job on the farm. He told me he doesn’t know why, other than it “feels productive.” Honestly, I don’t get it. I’m sure the high school helpers agree with me, after their very first day on the farm was spent pulling weeds from the huge piles […]

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How to Keep Your Share Fresher For Longer

By Chelsey Geisz As an intern at EDF, I’ve had the once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to receive part of my paycheck in the form of veggies! After subsisting off limp carrot shavings and discolored lettuce from the college cafeteria for the last two years, I started the summer overjoyed at the prospect of unlimited access to fresh, […]

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A Land of Milk and Honey

August 4, 2014 by Samuel Lake I have found that in this world, what you look for, you will find. If you want to find reasons to be cynical, there are plenty of reasons to be cynical. This is especially true when you choose to carry the banner of a cause, when you choose to […]

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This I (Still) Believe

July 14, 2014 by Joshua Banner I’ve been involved with­ Eighth Day now since Jeff’s first season in 2010. I served as team leader when we were just a committee and became the farm board chair when we officially formed a not-for profit. As we prepare for the Farm to Fork next Tuesday, and as […]

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The Sacramental Communion of Food

July 11, 2014 by Chara Bouma-Prediger This week, our reading discussion featured a short story by John Steinbeck titled “Breakfast”, shared with us by Professor and Eighth Day Farm community member Mark Pearson. The brief tale painted a rich scene of the seemingly insignificant moment of a shared meal between strangers. We discussed the poetic […]

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The Cost of Food

July 3, 2014 by Kristen Van De Riet A bit less than a month ago, before I moved into the intern house on College Avenue, before I weeded my first bed of carrots, transplanted my first row of peppers, or seeded my first tray of butternut squash, I thought I understood the value of food. […]

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Redeem My Infertile Soil

June 23, 2014 by Amie Napier A new vision of white and silver billows above the Town Center property.  Alongside the vegetables, a hoop house has also been planted this spring.  It’s a beautiful structure – the inside is a metallic, geometric skeleton, strung with a web of white twine.  Because the land beneath was […]

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Farming & Humility

June 5, 2014 by Sam Lake Hey there friends, On one particular day last week, we spent a good portion of the morning planting bean seeds into several rows at our Grow Center on Pine Ave. It was a long day of seeding with most of the morning spent down on the ground sweetly pressing […]

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Surely We Praise Him For Time Well-Spent

posted by Kimberly Collins, July 20 2013 Today is our last full day on the farm. It may as well have been yesterday that I moved in, and last week that I was in Chile. Oh, mercy, how the time just scoops us right up. I said it before I arrived and I affirm it […]

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