Better Know a Farm Manager: Aixsha Hiciano, BR ’12
We’ve reached the end of our farm manager series! Signing us off is Aixsha, our newest farm manager. She’s farmed everywhere from Manhattan to Italy, and is working on bringing chickens to the Yale...
View ArticleWinter Salad Harvest and Recipe
Our spring semester at Yale is really short and it tends to fly by between work, hibernation, seeing friends, and waiting for the sun to come back out. The week before spring break is notoriously...
View ArticleSigns of Spring — Farm Update!
I’m back in New Haven on my way to other travels, but today I got to help out our farm manager Daniel with transplanting some seedlings that will be going into beds on the Farm when spring gets a...
View ArticleA Pizza’s-eye View of the Yale Farm Returns!
Hey everyone, remember me? It was a long and snowy winter, but this pizza is back. I know, I can barely remember it either. What were the toppings we used in those final October weeks? Roasted sweet...
View ArticleAn Educational Afternoon
Today’s guest poster, Eliza Scheffler (PC 2012), shares a story about her afternoon at the Farm with a great group of kids from a Hamden synagogue. In late February, a group of students from the...
View ArticleFarm Update: the Third Annual Jack Hitt Annual Last Day of Classes Pig Roast
It was just two weeks ago that we finally celebrated the Third Annual Jack Hitt Annual Last Day of Classes Pig Roast at the Yale Farm — it feels like much longer! In celebration of a year of learning...
View ArticleGuest Post: Foraging Serviceberries
This week, Farm Manager and Educator Daniel Macphee teaches us about New England’s summer gift of the serviceberry, where to find it on the Yale campus, and how best to enjoy it. Coming up in the next...
View ArticleStories from the Farm: Our six interns speak up
This week marks the end of the first month of our summer internship, and today our six interns chime in with stories from the farm: a comparison of financing to farming, letting farm produce decide...
View ArticleStories from the Farm: How will we eat?
We asked our Lazarus summer interns the provocative question “How will we eat?” and got a surprising range of answers. From becoming aware of the true diversity of vegetables available at farmers’...
View ArticleAt the Farm: See our new picnic tables!
Here at the Farm, we recently celebrated the arrival of our new picnic tables, designed and built by Ted Esselstyn, who was so nice to share some photos of the table-making process with us. The wood...
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