So grateful to all of you who came out to our Open Farm Day last Sunday – we had an amazing time hosting more than 50 people!!  Kids got to thresh beans with our awesome farm partner Seth, we disced the field with Cole our draft horse, showed our grain trials, and shared lots of ...
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(us, circa 2007 – Ella was three months old when we opened this space!)
That’s right friends, this month marks three years on Main St in Amherst!  We have the most amazing customers, and we’re so proud to be part of this thriving, beautiful community.  To celebrate, we’ve had free birthday cake in past years, but ...
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After some nice hot sun, the beans are up!

(photos by Ben Lester)

Some things I forgot to show you . . .
I’ve been all about trying to finish up WIP, instead of starting new ones.  I finished this shirt in March for Ella (requested by her – she chose the fabric, too).

In April, I finished Ben’s Warmest Winter Hat, made with some luscious local yarn he got ...
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Here in the Pioneer Valley, we are blessed with CISA, and their tremendously successful “Be  a Local Hero” campaign, which has brought a lot of attention to buying local foods.  At Wheatberry, we’re one of a handful of food businesses that really focuses on serving fresh foods, bought from local farms (almost always organic farms, ...
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Grow some food.  For us, this has been so so important.  It’s hard to really explain in words the sensory pleasure of starting seeds, watching sprouts grow, setting out plants in the spring, tending them, and then harvesting and eating them.  To grow your own food is one of life’s greatest luxuries, and it’s sad ...
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Because there’s always more to be grateful for.

This morning, we have an email in our inbox from a very experienced, long-standing New England farmer who suffered terrible crop losses this year.  So bad that he’s asking us to provide him with Early Riser corn seed for next year, which we’re going to do our best ...
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(The fabulous bean harvest crew from Monday’s event)
(a bouquet from Sunday’s sewing bee)
Have we mentioned that we love you, our shareholders, supporters, friends, our community?
We do.
Today’s bean harvesting party started out a bit depressing.  It was discouraging that we had to have a bean harvesting party at all – the combine is broken and under ...
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