Tag: Brook Farm
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Maple Sugar Season Kicks Off with a Sawing Song
Chris Iversen, manager of the Brook Farm Project in New Paltz, teaches volunteers a work song to sing as they saw wood. The maple sugaring prep work and potluck took place Feb. 23. Video by Charlene V. Martoni.
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Snapshot: Farmer Dan, Brook Farm
Photos by Rebecca Kassay Brook Farm is one of a group of small, polyculture (growing more than one type of produce) farms in the New Paltz area. These farms avoid negatively affecting the environment and the quality of their food by not spreading any such chemicals on the crops and land. Farmer Dan Guenther, a…