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Popcorn Festival at Native Earth Teaching Farm

October 10, 2009 from 10am to 3pm

We have free fall fun and games at this yearly event. We dye wool with flowers, weeds, and bark. We have taste tests, and it is the last day for gleaning from the community gardens.Best of all, we try to fill all the animals, poultry, and visitors with popcorn! Raindate Sunday.

An event by Rebecca Gilbert was featured Sep 28, 2009

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Rebecca Gilbert replied to Mark Walter's discussion 'CRAFT-E-would you like to be a host site?' in the group Massachusetts Network

We are always willing to tour our farm with groups or individuals. We may not be able to go off island ourselves, though. We would like to do something with the different farms on the island, many of whom host interns and apprentices of various…

May 1, 2009

Popcorn Festival at Native Earth Teaching Farm

October 10, 2009 from 10am to 3pm

Event posted by Rebecca Gilbert May 1, 2009

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Rebecca Gilbert replied to Nancy Williams's discussion 'Making Farm Based Education work in this economy'

We are big on community gardening. The new 'Victory Garden' is the 'Prosperity Garden.' Grow one!

May 1, 2009

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Organization Name: Native Earth Teaching Farm

Current Position Title:: teaching farmer

Website:: http://www.nativeearthteachingfarm.org

What is your favorite childhood farm or garden memory?: I am sitting in my grandma's garden while she hands me fragrant leaves to smell and taste. The smell of sun warmed soil, and the hum of bees, and flowers fluttering in the breeze surround us. My grampa has his easel out. He is not painting the garden, he tells me, he is painting the light. I still love that light, and those leaves also.