Events

Come celebrate the harvest season at our Fall Festival on Saturday, October 2nd from noon to 4pm.  Admission is $4 for adults and $2 for children. Members get in for free. There will be plenty of family activities including a live storyteller, hayrides, cider pressing, and face painting. All activities are included in the price of admission. Burgers, hot dogs and beverages will be for sale as well.

Storyteller Doria Hughes will join us to share her energenic farm folk tales for children of all ages!  She will be hosting three 30-minutes story sessions, starting at 12:30, 1:30, and 2:30.

Zemler Wu Photography will also be on hand offering family portrait sessions (by reservation) at the farm from 10:30am to 3pm.  To sign up for a photo shoot with your family, please contact Marie at mzemlerwu@gmail.com.

We hope to see you there!

Biochar: Old Technology, New Solutions

This workshop is for all farmers and gardeners that want to improve their soil fertility, yields and nutrient quality with biochar. In this workshop you will build a burner and gain skills to use immediately. If you can swing a hammer you can learn how to build a biochar burner.

Biochar is an emerging technology based on centuries old techniques and principles for producing charcoal. Biochar is the byproduct when biomass is burned or heated with a minimum of oxygen. It is primarily used to enhance soil fertility and helps improve the health of plants, increases yields, reduces costs and improves food’s nutritional quality/density. Making biochar by pyrolysis also produces energy. When this energy is captured biochar can be turned into electricity, space heat or diesel (this workshop will focus on the soil fertility aspects and touch upon these other uses.)

We will build a barrel burner with a simple retort design capable of making small amounts of biochar safely and easily. We will also learn how to start a burn using our new barrels.

Peter Hirst (Blacksmith): Peter is the self-taught proprietor of Keziah's Forge, the newest incarnation of the old barrel factory forge in Harwich on Cape Cod. Peter demonstrates basic forging at fairs, festivals and private gatherings, replete with history, stories, poetry and blacksmith lore. He recently retired from the energy industry.

Bob Wells (Farmer): Bob comes with a wide spectrum of experience; from working on the biggest farm in New York State to learning organic farming and blacksmithing in the back woods of West Virginia. He's run businesses in electronics, metalworking and boa building. Currently he's carving out a small organic farm from the tangled woods of Eastham on Cape Cod. He is passionate about developing small scale biochar systems and educating others about biochar’s fantastic advantages

Please join us for the sixth Supper Club dinner of the season. This month's theme is smoked meat. Menu and more information to come.

For more information, please visit our Supper Club page. You may also email supper@landssake.org.

October 31 is the last day the Land's Sake Farmstand will be open.  Please come share hearty homemade soup with our Land's Sake friends at the Farm Stand on Wellesley Street. We will feature Land's Sake produce in the soups, and some will bevegetarian. We're expecting to serve:

• Potato-Leek Soup
• Chicken Soup
• Carrot Soup
• Butternut-Chestnut Soup
• Bean and Kale Soup
  

each made by one of our Super Soupers!

Sunday is also, of course, Halloween, so there may be some Jack-o-lantern fun, and any remaining pumpkins will be priced to move to your doorstep for the festivities as darkness falls. 

Soupapalooza is free and the soup will be first come, first served.

Just so we know what to expect, please RSVP by going to http://soupapalooza2010.eventbrite.com/