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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, 20173 min read
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, 20154 min read
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, 20152 min read
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, 20141 min read
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, 20142 min read
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, 20131 min read
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, 20132 min read
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, 20132 min read
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, 20132 min read
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, 20131 min read
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, 20121 min read
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, 20122 min read
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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Nov 10, 20112 min read
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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