Media
The following are a collection of videos and articles throughout the years. Take a look below to see the range of what we do through the eyes of writers, students and videographers.
2022 Big Pig Gig
Ben Holmes – The Founder
Connecting to Land, Reflections from the Farm School. Taproot Magazine: Preserve, summer issue 2016. By Learn to Farm alumni and current Farm School staff member Caitlin Sargent. (Issues available in bookstores and health food stores nationally now and also for purchase on the Taproot website
A Day in the Life of Sugar Maple Tappers, The Huffington Post visits the Farm School during Maple Sugaring season. March, 2015
2013 Learn to Farm Graduate Erik Jacob’s regular articles about the Learn to Farm program in the Boston Globe:
- January 1, 2013 – Letter from Farm School
- February 5, 2013 – Spring seems far away
- March 26, 2013 – Farm School apprentices prepare for spring
- May 13, 2013 – Dug in and flat out: planting time
- December 3, 2013 – Apprentice’s year comes to an end
Erik’s pictures featured on NPR’s the picture show, In Search of Sunrise: A Photographer Heads to Farm School, November 22, 2012.
The US professionals quitting the rat race to become farmers, BBC, August 28, 2013
At The Farm School, Making The Leap From The Boardroom To The Cornfield. A piece by WGBH news featuring our student farmers and alumna Laura Sackton, founder of First Root Farm in Concord.
Former Program Director, Reid Bryant, writes about the Program for Visiting Schools in Northern Woodlands, At Work and at Play in the Northeastern Forest, February 24, 2012.
Student Blogs and Photographs:
The DotPages by past student farmer and current farmer/teacher at the Program for Visiting Schools, Dottie Arnold (Learn to Farm ’14)
One full year from a student’s perspective – Plough and Stars project by Erik Jacobs (2012-13).
Farm School Annual Newsletters:
PBS’ crew of Growing a Greener World enrolls for a week at The Farm School’s Learn to Farm program, December 1, 2011.
The Learn to Farm program in the Boston Globe, Tough road to reap, August 24, 2011.
The Learn to Farm program in the Boston Globe, Magna cum carrot, November 3, 2010.
Farm School Director and Learn to Farm Graduate, Patrick Connors, in UNH Magazine, Fall 2008.