Local CSA programs accepting new members!

Posted on May 7, 2013 by Farm

Our CSA is now full! We have compiled a list of several of the local, sustainable farms that are still accepting CSA applications. Please share this list with your friends!

Everblossom Farm: Certified Organic. Has plenty of delivery sites in Carlisle and other towns. You can meet Elaine Lemmon at the Farmers on the Square market every Wednesday, 3-7pm

Piney Mountain Farm: Certified Naturally Grown, which is very similar to organic but more affordable for smaller farms. Offers different share sizes and delivery to Carlisle or other towns. You can meet Megan Rulli at the Farmers on the Square market every Wednesday, 3-7pm

Lark Rise Farm: Certified Naturally Grown. Offers different share sizes and delivery to Carlisle or other towns. Has a produce, egg or bread share. You can meet Sherri Cloward at the Farmers on the Square market every Wednesday, 3-7pm

Spiral Path Farm: Certified Organic. Has multiple share options and delivery sites in Carlisle and towns all over South Central PA.

Shared Earth Farm

Earth Spring Farm

North Mountain Pastures: Meat CSA. Visit their website or stop by Farmers on the Square from 3-7pm on May 15th (they will be at the market every other week) to sign up!

Sunset Valley Farm: Dairy and egg CSA. Call Emanuel Smucker at 717-438-3881 or stop by Farmers on the Square every Wednesday, 3-7pm to meet him!

Additional CSA programs for everything from meat to fruit to bread to veggies can be found through www.localharvest.org.

The Dickinson College Farm Campus Supported Agriculture (CSA) is a 24-week subscription program that offers freshly-harvested, Certified Organic vegetables, fruits, and herbs on a weekly or bi-weekly basis. Please check out our FAQ, email farm at dickinson.edu or call 717-245-1969 for more information!

Our CSA members are great at spreading the word about the perks of joining a farm subscription program. This positive word-of-mouth helps ensure that sustainable agriculture continues to flourish in our community. Thank you!

Farmers’ Market on March 23rd, 2-6pm!

Posted on March 20, 2013 by Farm

We are thrilled to announce the amazing list of vendors for the Farmers’ Market in Dickinson’s HUB this Saturday! From 2:00-6:00pm, you can peruse a diversity of agriculture products and hand-crafted art from Cumberland Valley and surrounding areas. The Farmers’ Market is FREE and open to the public. Please spread the word to your friends and family!

Indoor Farmers’ Market – Free & open to the public!
Saturday, March 23rd, 2:00-6:00pm
Holland Union Building, Main Floor, 28 N. College St., Carlisle, PA
Look up directions on Google Maps: http://goo.gl/maps/HxO40

Lark Rise Farm – Pizza rounds, seeded rye bread, bagels, 7grain sourdough and addicting bread crisps, to name a few. Ask about the winter csa which is a once a month membership coinciding with the fots market schedule.

Everblossom Farm - Three types of kale, swiss chard, lettuce and herbs. Also collard greens, four types of potatoes, dry beans and garlic. Lettuce in a pot ready to grow in the window.

Otterbein Acres – Artisan cheese, yogurt, pastured eggs, grass fed beef and lamb, chicken, heritage breed pork.

ROOTS Flower Farm – The very first of SPRING BLOOMS! We’ll have anemones and tulips from the greenhouse, plus pussywillow bunches and new styles of twig wreaths.

Pecan Meadows Farm – Grass fed beef (steaks, ground, roasts), lamb (chops,ribs), duck (whole and pieces), chicken (whole and pieces), guinea fowl, granola and dried apples.

Bearlin’ Acres – Soft, vibrant wool fibers for your spinning and yarns for your needlework project!

Tony Zizzi – Beautiful hand crafted wooden utensils carved from local wood.

Kurt Brantner - Hand-turned, wood-fired pottery to accent your home and dining room table. Stunning bowls, pie plates, serving bowls, mugs and pitchers.

Liz Zizzi – Sweet & tart small-batch fruit leathers including peach, apple, strawberry, grape and blueberry. Most of my fruits are purchased from local farms at the peak of their seasons! I will also have fragrant lavender sachets to be tucked in a closet or drawer.

Shared Earth Farm – Hand made goodies like socks, slippers, hats, handbags and more!

Dawg Gone Bees – Wonderful local honey, cranberry orange honey butter, bees wax candles, honey popcorn, dog treats…Great gifts for your family.

Three Springs Fruit Farm – Delicious apples including Fuji, Cameo, Gala, and Stayman. Versitile ‘Eva’ white potatoes for hash browns, soups, and stews and tart cherry juice to help with your circulation in the winter time.

Keswick Creamery – Fabulous award winning cheeses, all natural yogurt, pudding, hand crafted soap and more.

Broad Valley Orchards – Certified Naturally Grown CSA Farm in Wenksville, PA! Broad Valley has over 125 fruit trees, over 1200 feet of various berries, acre or so of vegetable gardens, and cold frame greenhouses for extended season growing.

Brushwood Farm – An assortment of heritage chickens and turkeys, herbs, asparagus and shiitake mushrooms; handmade soaps, which use herbs from the farm.

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Raffle tickets will also be available for your chance to win one of three baskets! Raffle proceeds go to the Brownback Scholarship Fund.

Items in each basket include:

Buy Fresh, Buy Local T-Shirt
Homemade Soap
Value Added Products from the Dickinson College Farm
Ceramic Bowl by Megan Moody, Dickinson student
Knitted Scarf by Rachael Sclafani, Dickinson student (in one basket)
Painting by Caryn Sennett, Dickinson student (in one basket)
Note cards by Lauren Bruns, Dickinson student (in one basket)

Tickets for the raffle will also be available at the HUB Stand this Friday from 11-2!

We are looking for volunteers to help set up market and help vendors unload. If you are available from 12:30- 2 this Saturday we would really appreciate your help. Either post on here or email garden at dickinson.edu if you’re interested. Thanks!

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See you at the market and dinner! Don’t hesitate to email farm at dickinson.edu or call 717-245-1969 with any questions.

-Dickinson Students Interested in Sustainable Agriculture (SISA) and Dickinson College Farm Crew

Incredible (Organic) Egg!

Posted on March 6, 2013 by Farm

The Incredible Edible (organic) Egg
April 6th, 10am-12pm – Registration is now full

Suggested ages 5-9

Collect fresh-laid eggs from the farm’s pasture-raised hens. We will see and taste the differences between our organic eggs and conventional eggs.

“Sweet Trees and Bees” is now full!

Posted on February 27, 2013 by Farm

March 2nd, 10am-12pm – This youth workshop is now full! Please email farm at dickinson.edu with your phone number if you’d like to be added to our wait list for this workshop. We’ll notify you on a first-come, first-served basis if we receive any cancellations!

Sweet Trees and Bees: Suggested ages 9-12

Discover how the special sap that maple trees produce is turned into maple syrup and learn how bees make their honey. Sweet treats will be provided!

Learn how to register for our next workshop, The Incredible (organic) Egg on our Sustainable Earth Education (SEED) webpage!

2013 Sustainability Schools About to Get Underway!

Posted on January 29, 2013 by Farm

Our 2013 Sustainability Schools schedule is now posted! Registration is open for our first workshop, “Soap from Scratch”, which will take place on Saturday, Feb. 23rd from 2:00-4:00pm. Registration is $6 for Pennsylvania Association of Sustainable Agriculture (PASA) members and $8 for non-members.

Students attend all workshops for free. Transportation via shuttle will be provided for students every month! (Thank you, Students Interested in Sustainable Agriculture!) If you are a student, please email farm at dickinson.edu to register.

The Dickinson College Farm is one of several Pennsylvania locations hosting the workshops through PASA’s Sustainability Schools program, which centers on homesteading, homemaking and backyard conservation workshops for consumers interested in living more sustainably. Other locations include Greener Partners (Collegeville, PA), the Spring Creek Homesteading Fund (State College, PA), and The Home Grown Institute (Philadelphia, PA).

“We are excited for this partnership and look forward to empowering and inspiring others to grow food and help build a foundation for community-based education,” says Jenn Halpin, Dickinson College Farm director. “Farm-based educational programs provide hands-on learning and a means to exchange information that will benefit gardeners and food lovers alike,” she says.

A link to register for sustainability schools will be posted approximately 1 month ahead of each workshop’s date! Follow us on Facebook or Twitter to receive alerts when registration opens for each workshop.

See you at the farm!

Save the Date: Art on the Farm!

Posted on July 2, 2012 by Farm

Save the Date
Art on the Farm
September 23rd, 4:00pm
Dickinson College Farm, 553 Park Dr., Boiling Springs, PA

Come and experience art in action with local artists partaking in “en plein air” art sessions in the fields at the Dickinson College Farm. Plus fill your plate and glass with in-season local cuisine prepared by area chefs, breweries and vineyards!

Dickinson Students: Use Personal Declining Balance to Purchase Farmers’ Market $5 Tokens

Posted on April 12, 2012 by Farm

Pilot Program for Dickinson Students: $5 “Wooden Nickels”, redeemable at the Farmers on the Square market, can be purchased at the Devil’s Den using a student’s Personal Declining Balance Account (DBA).

The information for the personal DBA is encoded on the College ID. No other card is needed! For students who don’t have a credit card or carry cash, using the personal DBA to purchase Farmers’ Market tokens is a way to broaden healthy & local food options.

“Personal declining balance is set up by a student or the student’s parents. Declining balance provided by Flex plans, flex points and charging will not work.” (Dickinsonian, “Miseno’s Now Accepting Declining Balance” Feb 2011)

A limited number of tokens are currently available for purchase at the Devil’s Den, just in time for the upcoming Farmers on the Square market on Saturday, April 21st from 9:00am-1:00pm at the Depot.

The long-term feasibility of this project is being investigated by students in Sebastian Berger’s Environmental Economics class. A google survey will help the student coordinators gauge interest in the program’s expansion. If you have questions or would like more information, contact Brendan Murtha at murthab@dickinson.edu.

The weekly Farmers on the Square market returns to the square on May 9^th!

Announcing new cheese CSA partnership!

Posted on April 4, 2012 by Farm

New this year, we are excited to be partnering with Keswick Creamery and Silly Kids Creamery to offer a cow and goat cheese CSA to Dickinson Farm CSA members! This CSA will be run by a Dickinson alumna, Kalyn Campbell, who is also a former student farmer and an alumna of the Dickinson Farm graduate intern program!

Learn more about this CSA opportunity!

Happy cows at Keswick Creamery, Spring 2012

Happy cows at Keswick Creamery in Newburg, PA in Spring 2012.

On the Farm: Local Food Dinner Wrap-Up

Posted on March 28, 2012 by Farm

On the Farm

By William Seward ‘12
Opinion Section, The Dickinsonian

March 28, 2012

The ninth annual Local Food Dinner was truly a moment we had all been waiting for. Last Saturday, March 24, 80 Dickinson students and 45 faculty members joined 60 local farmers and community leaders with their families to share a decadent feast composed of local ingredients in the HUB Social Hall. Tickets to the event sold out within a week. For students who are still becoming acquainted with the College Farm and the network of sustainable farmers it holds together, the dinner was a celebration of a new beginning with the promise of many good things to come. For the senior student workers, including myself, it provided recognition for our invaluable farming experiences and an encouraging send-off as we approach our diverging futures.

Dinner guests eagerly tucked into shepherd’s pie, mushroom risotto, roasted root vegetables, squash soup, salad, apples and cheese. This impressive spread was the work of the Dickinson organization Students Interested in Sustainable Agriculture (SISA). The members of SISA were responsible for designing the menu, consulting with Dining Services and sourcing the ingredients from local producers in order to create a seasonal meal.

It was also thanks to SISA that Dickinson welcomed author Ben Hewitt as the keynote speaker for the dinner. Hewitt has written two books as well as articles for publications including the New York Times Magazine and Gourmet. While his latest book, Making Supper Safe, was focused on food safety, the theme of “restorative agriculture” recurs throughout his work, and was the topic of his keynote speech. Hewitt emphasized the need to restore the capacity of a community to produce its own inputs for a system of local production. He described the restorative cycle using his first book, The Town that Food Saved. This restorative cycle resembles the system that the College Farm has strived to implement on Dickinson’s campus. By capturing all of the food waste from Dining Services to use for compost, the farm is able to create its own fertility and approach its ever-expanding goal to feed its outputs back to the college.

The College Farm has also fostered local production by supporting the Carlisle farmers’ market. According to a Feb. 2, 2003 article in the Sentinel, the Carlisle farmers’ market “was once the town’s hub commercially and socially.” On Saturday afternoon the Local Food Dinner brought the market into the HUB lobby. Eighteen local vendors came with their meat, eggs, dairy, bread, produce, flowers and crafts. Supporting the vendors is a key motivation of the Local Food Dinner, all of whose proceeds benefit Farmers on the Square. Farmers on the Square has been holding the Carlisle farmers’ market since 2009, when it renewed the market’s presence on North Hanover St. after a 50-year absence. From November to April, the market sets up shop indoors instead of outdoors, and Dickinson has served as its alternative site. Dickinson will be hosting the last winter market of the season in the Depot on Saturday April 21. As a student worker at the College Farm, I am proud that Dickinson is helping to perpetuate a local food tradition in the Carlisle community.

Local Food Dinner tickets going fast! Sales open to the public on Monday.

Posted on March 9, 2012 by Farm

On Monday, March 12th, Local Food Dinner tickets will go on sale to the general public. After just one week of sales (a presale for Dickinson students only), we are well on our way to selling out before the end of next week!

If you already signed up for our Local Food Dinner notification list, you will be one of the first members of the public to have the chance to buy tickets.

For more information about how to buy tickets in the lower level of the HUB next week, check out the original Local Food Dinner blog post!

The 2012 Local Food Dinner will take place on Saturday, March 24th at 6:30pm (immediately following the winter Farmers on the Square market in the HUB).We are thrilled to have Ben Hewitt, author of “The Town that Food Saved” as our keynote speaker.

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