We're having a spring clean up work party at Bug Hill Farm! Share your muscle power for four hours (light gardening work) and you will receive a voucher for attendance at any of the upcoming Fresh & Feral workshops offered this season by Acorn Kitchen (Limited to two work trade slots per workshop, sign up for […]
Place looms large in childhood memories, yet it's hard to define what creates a sense of place.Join writer Jane Roy Brown for a day of writing together using prompts to explore our personal connections to food-growing it, cooking it, eating it, sharing it. We will write to prompts that conjure memories of favorite childhood places […]
A long, cool spring stretched out flowering times for wild blueberries and currants here on the farm...Now an excellent fruit set is evident,with the native bumblebees having moved on to early flowers on our elderberries! High tunnel raspberries buds open soon into flowers, enticing bumblebees into the greenhouse. Did you know that greenhouse berries are totally […]
THREE WOMEN'S PASSION FOR PLANTS Mix one award winning botanical illustrator, with a renaissance style florist & caterer, add an MHS award winning garden designer & grower and you have a recipe for an afternoon of hands-on learning about perennials, best annuals for cutting, floral & garden design and more! Beverly Duncan, studied Graphic Design at […]
Bug Hill is having a July workshop on the farm! Mix one award-winning botanical illustrator*, with a renaissance-style florist & caterer**, and add an MHS award-winning garden designer & grower*** and you have a recipe for an afternoon of hands-on learning! Participants will learn essential elements of floral and garden design. Tour the farm gardens to see design principles in action & cut and […]
Learn about preparing & cooking grass-fed meat direct from the dedicated local farmers of our community, then join us for a flavor-filled luncheon on the farm's front porch of beef and pork recipes with all the trimmings! Menu: All meat from Ashfield: Steady Lane grass fed beef and Manda Farm grass fed pork. Organic Vegetables from local sources […]
Summer Sizzle Jamboree Learn a professional chef's secrets for seasoning & preparing grass fed meat & take home recipes. Meet the dedicated farmers at Ashfield Meat CSA who know & will share with you how they care for their animals. Then join us on the farm's front porch for a flavor filled lunch of lamb, beef, pork […]
Learn about preparing & cooking grass-fed meat direct from the dedicated farmers at Ashfield Meat CSA. Then join Bug Hill Farm for a flavor-filled delicious luncheon of lamb, beef, pork with all the trimmings! Schedule 12 PM: Introductions + talk by Ashfield's grass-fed meat CSA owners, Janet Clark (Steady Lane Farm) & Ipek Kursat (Dew Green Farm) […]