The Farm School: Summer Programs

Our Farm Products

Belmont Farmer's Market
Veggie CSA
Meat CSA
T-shirts & Bags

The Farm School not only provides experiences here on the farm but also out in the larger world -educating farmers and feeding friends and family! Here you can find out about ways to find and enjoy our delicious organic produce, all-natural meats and free-range eggs.

Fresh Organic Produce

A vital aspect of our Practical Farm Training Program is to teach student farmers how to grow the most exquisite produce possible and use the best practices to market it, thereby giving them the tools to farm successfully on their own. All of the produce is planted, grown, harvested, marketed and sold by Farm School children, student farmers, and staff.

Belmont Farmer's Market

We will again this year be at the Belmont Farmer's Market. All of our in-season produce as well as all-natural meats, free-range eggs and flowers are available at our farm stand. Drop by the market on Thursdays between 1:30 pm and 7:00 pm from June until late October, bring home a taste of The Farm School and visit with staff and student-farmers!

Belmont Center Parking Lot
Belmont, MA

For more information, click here.

Consider becoming a member of our Veggie CSA!

Share in The Farm School bounty with a generous, weekly, fresh, local organic vegetable box filled with the fruits of our harvest including mesculin mix, baby arugula, heirloom tomatoes, culinary herbs, spinach, butternut squash, turnips, fingerling potatoes as well as delicious family staples such as cucumbers, broccoli, snap peas, onions, kale and much, much more!

What's a CSA?.......
CSA stands for Community Supported Agriculture and indicates a method of marketing whereby clients purchase a share of the produce grown before the season, thereby sharing in the bounty and realities of the season.

In addition to supplying your family with super-fresh, certified-organic produce from the fields of our Practical Farm Training Program, your participation in the CSA will support the training of our student farmers as they learn the growing practices and marketing techniques integral to successful farming in New England.

A $600 membership includes weekly distribution of our harvest of certified organic vegetables for 21 weeks June - October.

Distribution
This Season we are really looking forward to offering a new model for distribution in addition to the boxed share we’ve always offered. We’ll make available “market style” pick-up at Iggy’s Bread of The World on Tuesdays throughout the season in which we’ll bring, say 12 or 15 seasonal veggie options and members choose the 9 or 12 that they love - leaving behind those veggies you still haven’t found a taste for. This distribution method affords us the opportunity to visit with members weekly, answering growing and cooking questions and sharing what’s happening on the farm while giving you, our members, a bit more choice in your weekly share of the harvest. We hope this provides an even stronger connection to the folks who grow your food and for us, those folks enjoying it!

For those for whom the boxed share is ideal we look forward to continuing to make boxed shares available at our Watertown location (Athenahealth) on Thursdays. All our shares sell for $600. We are committed to making abundantly available our excellent quality, super-fresh, certified organic vegetables whichever model you choose.

To Sign-Up
You can now sign-up for our CSA using PayPal. Please note that this includes a service fee.

Tuesday Market Style share at Iggy's Bread of the World in Cambr
Iggy's Bread of the World
130 Fawcett Street
Cambridge

Thursday boxed share delivered to Athenahealth in Watertown Athenahealth
311 Arsenal Street
Watertown

If you prefer to pay by check please click here to download & print our sign up form and return with your $300 deposit to:

The Farm School CSA
488 Moore Hill Road
Athol, MA 01331

You can expect an email confirmation upon receipt of your payment.

Questions? Contact jennifer@farmschool.org

The Farm School's Winter Meat CSA

We make our grass-fed and organically raised meat products from Maggie’s farm (where we teach adults the craft of farming) available through a winter meat CSA. Shares consist of a monthly, pre-packaged, deep-frozen selection of our lamb, beef, pork and eggs.

Price and Program: Five months of Watertown deliveries, each delivery you can expect 12 pounds of our grass-fed, organically-fed, conscientiously-raised meats and 2 dozen organically raised eggs for $575 – (a total of 60 pounds) December through April.

Monthly deliveries are at Athenahealth at 311 Arsenal Street in Watertown. Deliveries will be the first Friday of each month December through April at 12:30pm.

Program Delivery Dates:

Our Meats & Eggs: All of our animals at the Practical Farm Training program are pasture-fed (with the exception of our pigs who have stomachs much like ours and don’t convert grass to energy very effectively). Which means that our meat products are much lower in fat (4-6 times lower than grain-fed red meat), high in Omega-3 fatty acids and contain five times more conjugated linoleic acid (CLA), which can prevent and even reduce cancer growth. We do not feed grain to our cattle, sheep or work horses as they are not designed to eat concentrated grains and this stresses their bodies. Our pigs are pastured in a huge forested area where they root day and night, and are supplemented with a daily ration of organic grain. Our herd and flock are moved onto fresh grass every single day May-November and are fed hay, primarily produced here on our farm, throughout the winter. Our chickens are entirely free-range with a supplement of organic grain, roosting in a mobile chicken coop that we move with the horses to follow the beef herd. These are very content, extremely healthy animals who truly thrive in their natural environment. Many of our student-farmers come to the farm without large animal experience and leave ready to respectfully raise healthy and productive animals on their own.

What you can expect: Our winter meat CSA program includes 12 pounds per monthly delivery of grass-fed lamb, grass-fed beef, organically-fed pork and farm-fresh eggs. Monthly distribution will include a range of cuts as we harvest our animals. In other words, Pork for the first distribution, Beef and pork for the next distribution, lamb and beef for the next couple distributions and beef for the final distribution. This is to ensure you the freshest product possible and helps us manage our freezer space here at the farm. Shares are pre-assembled at the farm to include approximately half ground and stew cuts and approximately half higher-end cuts such as steaks and chops. We do not take requests for particular cuts.

Your meat products will be freshly processed, cryo-vacuum packaged and deep frozen at a USDA slaughterhouse (which we tour with student farmers as a piece of our curriculum).

We include cooking tips, recipes and information about grass-fed meat with each monthly delivery..

Feel free to ‘split a share’ with a friend, colleague or neighbor if you’re not too sure how much meat you or your family will eat per month. This is such a great opportunity to purchase super high-quality, healthy, local meat products that your friends just might kiss you for sharing it with them!

To Sign-Up: Contact jennifer@farmschool.org to confirm we still have shares available.

Mail your check for $575 to:
The Farm School - Meat CSA
488 Moore Hill Road
Athol, MA 01331

Please be sure to include your email address and telephone number. The program will be filled on a first come, first serve basis. Members can expect to receive an email confirmation upon receipt of payment.

The Farm School meat CSA is offered through our Practical Farm Training program where we provide adults a unique year-long opportunity to learn to farm by farming. Working alongside mentor farmers and growers, student-farmers participate in every aspect of the farm operation from creating the annual farm plan and project budgets to growing and marketing the product directly to customers. Your participation in our meat CSA specifically enables us to teach a growing model of direct marketing animal products to our student-farmers. We look forward to sharing the product of our beloved animals with you.

Feel free to email with any questions jennifer@farmschool.org

T-shirts & Bags

Be a part of The Farm School family by wearing your support.

The Radical Radish: 'The words radical and radish share a common etymological origin. Radishes are often vibrant in color, flavorful (to the point of tears in some Japanese varieties) and, most of all, a tuber, root-based crop. The Latin radix means root. To be radical, one is getting to the root of that in which they are engaging.'

The Radical Radish T-shirts: made from organic cotton are available in many sizes to fit any person in your family. All t-shirts are $20, plus $5 per item for shipping and handling.

The Radical Bag: with dimensions of 15 x 4 x 11 (L x W x H) is a wonderful accessory for only $15, plus $5 per item for shipping and handling.