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The beginnings of the Farm Stand at Dawn Farm! #e

The beginnings of the Farm Stand at Dawn Farm! #exciting

Spring comes early in a hoop, and this is from two

Spring comes early in a hoop, and this is from two weeks ago!

Bunch of turkeys, hanging out at the farm.

Bunch of turkeys, hanging out at the farm.

Spring is here! Cornelian cherry about to bloom.

Spring is here! Cornelian cherry about to bloom.

Checking out the earthworks at Dawn Farm. The wate

Checking out the earthworks at Dawn Farm. The water was moving towards the hoop! Lowered the berm an inch to get the raingarden to reverse it's flow. Still more to do but always making forward progress. Getting better and better.

Sound ON - the Dawn Farm Marsh

Sound ON - the Dawn Farm Marsh

Watching rain flow is so important for managing ra

Watching rain flow is so important for managing rain. I just observed 2 clear low points that drain water into 2 of the hoops that I would not have seen without active water cycles. #nowiknowwhattodo.
Potted up some strawberries 🍓 for our sale later this year. Need strawberry plants?

Also pictured: white currants and black raspberry freshly planted. #drinkmybabies

Artistic expressions of machinery. Thanks to frien

Artistic expressions of machinery. Thanks to friends in the Cooperative at Dawn Farm and permaculture community for the heavy gear. Makes farming so much easier 🚜

Beautiful day for trimming the black locusts. Mana

Beautiful day for trimming the black locusts. Managing trees for renewable yields + working with a few members of the Cooperative = what the Commons are all about. Collectively stewarding local land is the mission of the Cooperative and, at least how I conceive of it, an act of ‘commoning’. We are exciting to lean into relearning how to do this most human pattern.

Building a raingarden to catch and move all the wa

Building a raingarden to catch and move all the water from our hoops!

And what comes after a hard mornings work at the c

And what comes after a hard mornings work at the cooperative? Pizza in our wood fired oven. Yum!

Log harvest for or mushroom workshop! https://thec

Log harvest for or mushroom workshop! https://thecooperativeatdawnfarm.org/2019-mushroom-workshop/

Observations in our 8 acre food forest: Left pictu

Observations in our 8 acre food forest: Left picture is new pasture, seeded a couple of years ago after decades of corn and soy. The right picture is the same field and was seeded at the same time, but has had @projectmowypsi sheep graze on it at times over the summer. These areas are right next to each other, and they offer us some insight into the healing potential of working with animals to rebuild the soil. .

Here at the Cooperative we are all relatively new to farming. Our main mission is to be good stewards to this land, all our other projects/businesses need to be in alignment with that mission. From my perspective, this has been less about making big obvious overtly “productive” things happen and more about observing all these little details over time- working to integrate all these clues about what even constitutes good stewardship for this place. So much of this is about patience and curiosity, about placing trust in our values, about a willingness not to have the answers before we’ve earned them. I’m so grateful to have that kind of opportunity here. . ❤️ Grace @polliwogfarm .
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This time of year there are always those few sunfl

This time of year there are always those few sunflowers who seem determined to let their faces feel the sun until the very end. ❤️🌻🍁

Picking pears at the farm.

Picking pears at the farm.

Testing out a new tiller at the farm.

Testing out a new tiller at the farm.

Oh uncle Milton, we just love this new pasture. Es

Oh uncle Milton, we just love this new pasture. Especially the brown eyed Susan's!

Prickly ash, a native to this area in the citrus f

Prickly ash, a native to this area in the citrus family. The berries taste like a cross between lemon peel and Echinacea.

Summer scythe practice in the food forest.

Summer scythe practice in the food forest.

I was worried about this hornets nest in the food

I was worried about this hornets nest in the food forest, looks like something took care of it for me.

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