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World Farmers’ staff carry a wealth of information about all aspects of World Farmers’ programs and events at Flats Mentor Farm, and we provide this Blog Series to share that information and to keep people informed of the highlights of our work. Enjoy!
A Year of Change – 2020 will forever be defined by its changes, challenges, and hardships. We hope everyone took some time this New Year to feel a sense of New Resolutions; we are taking time to acknowledge the work accomplished, and our ability to make shifts like never before.
Read MoreAll 270 immigrant and refugee farmers in our Flats Mentor Farm program have experienced significant or total crop loss from the excessive rainfall and flooding this season. Please consider providing a gift to help farmers recoup a portion of their losses. An Update from World Farmers: It’s been about three months since the devastating floods…
Read MoreA Year of Change – 2020 will forever be defined by its changes, challenges, and hardships. We hope everyone took some time this New Year to feel a sense of New Resolutions; we are taking time to acknowledge the work accomplished, and our ability to make shifts like never before.
Read MoreA Year of Change – 2020 will forever be defined by its changes, challenges, and hardships. We hope everyone took some time this New Year to feel a sense of New Resolutions; we are taking time to acknowledge the work accomplished, and our ability to make shifts like never before.
Read MoreFMF farmers experienced the full effects of climate change, with two devastating floods in the 2021 season. Every single one of the farmers in our program suffered near total crop loss in September after Henri and Ida hit – most of them for the second time after mid-July rains culminated in the first significant flood…
Read MoreChronicle Channel 5 We are thrilled to announce that we were featured in an episode about winter farming on Chronicles Channel 5 News. We were interviewed in partnership with the Southern New England Farmers of Color Collaborative. Feel free to check out the episode below.
Read MoreA Year of Change – 2020 will forever be defined by its changes, challenges, and hardships. We hope everyone took some time this New Year to feel a sense of New Resolutions; we are taking time to acknowledge the work accomplished, and our ability to make shifts like never before.
Read MoreWorld Farmers was founded to create access to opportunities for those marginalized by our larger society. This idea is imbedded in our mission and continues to frame all the work that we do. We represent farmers from all over the world, from many ethnicities, nationalities, and religions, and we do so proudly. Season…
Read MoreWorld Farmers COVID Considerations Dear World Farmers supporters, and Flats Mentor Farm customers: While the World deals with the COVID-19 pandemic, our farmers are tasked with the job of providing all of us with good fresh food to sustain us. Spring does not wait for the world to get healthy, and the 2020 growing season…
Read MoreSuccesses from the 2018 Season Community Kitchen 2018 saw the completion of the MDAR grant-funded community kitchen in the Lancaster Community Center. After weather delays, renovation and construction came to an end, resulting in a gleaming example of a commercial kitchen where farmers and community members can create value-added products using state-of-the-art appliances, infrastructure, and…
Read More2018 World Farmers 3rd Annual Harvest Gala Friday, November 13, 2018 [3d-flip-book id=”7015″ ][/3d-flip-book]
Read MoreFarming Inspires Art: Aurora Becker Aurora Becker, current 8th-grader at the Parker School and filmmaker extraordinaire, visited Flats Mentor Farm during the World Farmers’ fourth annual Tour de Farm in 2018 and was so inspired by the farmers, the farm, and the mission of World Farmers that she created this film (in the car…
Read More2017 World Farmers 2nd Annual Harvest Gala Friday, November 3, 2017 [3d-flip-book id=”7028″ ][/3d-flip-book]
Read MoreThe Life and Love of Kathy Ozer On January 22, 2017, we lost a leading voice in the work for just food and the fight to keep family farms thriving. Kathy Ozer, Executive Director of the National Family Farm Coalition was a courageous and kind leader, and a mentor to many. See Kathy’s Obituary in…
Read More2016 World Farmers Harvest Gala Friday, November 17, 2016 [3d-flip-book id=”7035″ ][/3d-flip-book]
Read MoreINTERN SERIES
Each summer, World Farmers hosts student interns from Nashoba Regional High School, and those students spend considerable time at Flats Mentor Farm and at the World Farmers’ office providing vital support to the farmers, staff, and programs of World Farmers. Students write reflections as part of their internships, and we host those writings here, knowing you will enjoy their insights and experiences.
This blog is from World Farmers’ Intern Blog Series, featuring reflections written by 2017, 2018 and 2019 summer high school interns from Nashoba Regional High School. To read the full series, visit our blog page www.worldfarmers.org/blogs, and stay tuned! What Makes Farming So Attractive? By Meredith Brummer, Nashoba Regional High School Summer Intern, Summer 2019 Tour…
Read MoreThis blog is from World Farmers’ Intern Blog Series, featuring reflections written by 2017, 2018 and 2019 summer high school interns from Nashoba Regional High School. To read the full series, visit our blog page www.worldfarmers.org/blogs, and stay tuned! Hellen’s Reflection Blog By Hellen Muma, Nashoba Regional High School Summer Intern, Summer 2019 On Saturday, August…
Read MoreThis blog is from World Farmers’ Intern Blog Series, featuring reflections written by 2017 and 2018 summer high school interns from Nashoba Regional High School. To read the full series, visit our blog page www.worldfarmers.org/blogs, and stay tuned! We will release a new blog in the series on alternating Fridays in February, March, and April, 2019.…
Read MoreThis blog is from World Farmers’ Intern Blog Series, featuring reflections written by 2017 and 2018 summer high school interns from Nashoba Regional High School. To read the full series, visit our blog page www.worldfarmers.org/blogs, and stay tuned! We will release a new blog in the series on alternating Fridays in February, March, and April, 2019.…
Read MoreThis blog is from World Farmers’ Intern Blog Series, featuring reflections written by 2017 and 2018 summer high school interns from Nashoba Regional High School. To read the full series, visit our blog page www.worldfarmers.org/blogs, and stay tuned! We will release a new blog in the series on alternating Fridays in February, March, and April, 2019.…
Read MoreThis blog is from World Farmers’ Intern Blog Series, featuring reflections written by 2017 and 2018 summer high school interns from Nashoba Regional High School. To read the full series, visit our blog page www.worldfarmers.org/blogs, and stay tuned! We will release a new blog in the series on alternating Fridays in February, March, and April, 2019.…
Read MoreAcreage Reports and Crop Insurance Woes By Sam Mitchell, Nashoba Regional High School Summer Intern The powerful mid-summer sun bore down with searing rays of bright light. The alluring fantasy of a drifting breeze was the only tantalizing respite as a stinging, salty sweat dripped arduously into my eyes and dribbled from my sunburnt neck…
Read MoreJerkfest 2016 By Immaculate Nyaigoti, Marketing Intern The summer heat has been brutal this year, so you know that you’re somewhere great when the heat is far from your mind. On June 25th, I had the opportunity to go to Boston JerkFest and deliver produce for the chef demos/cook offs as well as table for…
Read MoreThe Brexit, Immigration and Identity By: Nicole Huang, Communications Intern Britain’s decision to leave the European Union, known as the “Brexit,” has been making headlines lately because of its huge political and economic implications. The resulting turmoil defies simple explanation. However, I want to call attention to one important piece of the puzzle–the fact that,…
Read MoreWell-Wishers Campaign for Water Somali-Bantu Community of Lewiston, ME: Partner Update By Julia Wachtel, Nashoba Regional High School Summer Intern World Farmers is proud to highlight the work of our partner: the Somali Bantu Community Mutual Assistance Association, a nonprofit organization that works towards helping Somali Bantu refugees in Lewiston, Maine. The Somali Bantu community…
Read MoreBob’s Turkey Farm Fire By Julia Wachtel, Nashoba Regional High School Summer Intern The World Farmers community wants to extend its sympathies to Richard Van Hoof and Susan Miner, for their recent loss. On June 30th they were struck by tragedy as 7,000 baby turkeys were killed in a barn fire at Bob’s Turkey Farm…
Read MoreOUR VOICES MATTER SERIES
Our Voices Matter is a project that offers a safe space for people to share their thoughts, concerns, and fears, with the goal of uniting our community. We encourage you to share your voice in whatever form inspires you: an original blog, short story, poem, or picture, anonymously or signed. We imagine this place as a virtual complement to the physical spaces, at farms and markets and around the family table, that we at World Farmers are committed to creating. Know that what you contribute to this community will be read, shared, discussed and respected. You are not alone and we are here to listen. SHARE HERE!
Facing History Students and teachers at Nashoba Regional High school have worked in partnership with World Farmers to build relationships with farmers at Flats Mentor Farm. One of the products of this partnership is this video entitled Facing History, which gives the students a chance to reflect on the time they spent listening to and…
Read MoreImmigrant Justice, Equity, and Values-Oriented Thinking: Reflections from World Farmers Food Solutions New England (FSNE) coordinates a 21-day Racial Equity Challenge each year. This challenge, which distributes thought-provoking readings and discussion questions about racial justice, is designed to spark change for individuals, workplaces, and communities. Though there is no failsafe key to behavioral change, committing…
Read MoreUS Ambassador to Somalia’s Visit to our Office Last Thursday US Ambassador to Somalia visited Lewiston, he visited our office for the hour in his day long visit to the City, it was great honor to have an honest discussion about the situation in our country and how our people are suffering in our motherland.…
Read MoreMy view regarding the recent travel ban against nationals from 6 predominantly Muslim Nations People from Iran, Iraq, Syria, Sudan, Libya, Yemen and Somalia are effectively banned from entering the U.S for the next 120 days. What is the context of the travel ban? America’s persistence or insistence on promoting democratic governance, a Western based…
Read MoreLand of the Free Home of the Brave We live in a nation that proudly proclaims to be “…the land of the free and home of the brave”, but is that truly what we are because… When did freedom, mean being persecuted and hated simply for one’s belief? When did freedom, mean facing death because…
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