Current Projects

Battle Road Farms
Concord, Massachusetts

The Minute Man National Historic Park, the Farm School, and the Farm-Based Education Association have partnered to establish Battle Road Farms to increase the amount of agricultural activity within the park and expand the agricultural interpretation and education that is offered to the over 1.2 million visitors who spend time at the park each year. The Farm-Based Education Association will work collaboratively to develop programming and agricultural activity at the park and to connect the park to the larger farm-based education community. The integrated management program for farmland in the park will combine productive and sustainable agricultural endeavors in a historic cultural landscape with interpretive and educational elements.  This farming program would maintain the open farmscape of the park, giving visitors a more authentic visual experience of conditions at the time of the battle – April 19, 1775. The farmscape was important to the way the battle unfolded and its characteristics aided or impeded troop movements and deployments. The nature of the colonists’ farm culture was also important to the reasons that New Englanders rebelled against British imperial rule, and to the way they organized their resistance.

Simsbury Community Farm
Simsbury, Connecticut

The FBEA is working with town land conservation leaders, elected officials, and local institutions and organizations to secure the agricultural and public use of the town farm in this community.

Kalamazoo Nature Center
Kalamazoo, Michigan

The FBEA is working with the Kalamazoo Nature Center as they explore the development of their 19th century DeLano Homestead into a public access, working, organic, sustainable farm complex for the community.