Save The Date: 3rd Annual Family Fun Day, Saturday October 1st!

Posted on August 25, 2011 by melissa
Family Fun Day at Massaro Community Farm

Family Fun Day at Massaro Community Farm

Massaro Community Farm is pleased to announce our 3rd Annual Massaro Farm Family Fun Day.

Join us at the farm for a day of fun and food on Saturday October 1st from 1 ’til 4:30pm (the rain date is October 2nd).

Details to follow but put this on your calendar!

We need volunteers to make this event a success!! We are looking for volunteers to help us out with:

  • set-up and/or clean-up
  • activities geared towards children/families
  • prepare and manage the Salsa Competition

Email Melissa the Outreach Coordinator at melissa@massarofarm.org if you are interested in participating. Thank you!

Here’s a blog post by Chef Tagan Engel that describes last year’s event: http://taganskitchen.blogspot.com/2010/11/family-fun-on-massaro-farm.html

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Solar Tour on Wheels, Saturday, September 24th!!

Posted on August 25, 2011 by melissa

350.org

Moving Planet Day

350.org’s MOVING PLANET DAY

Saturday, September 24, 2011

Time and Place: 9:30am at Town Green

Moving Planet will be a day to put our demands for climate action into motion—marching, biking, skating—calling for the world to go beyond fossil fuels.

The goal is to get moving beyond fossil fuels—both symbolically by pouring into the streets in the thousands on foot, bicycle and other means of sustainable movement, and politically by bringing powerful demands to our leaders that day to move beyond fossil fuels to a 350ppm world.

The idea for Moving Planet came from 350.org, a global campaign and network that works with grassroots organizers in 188 countries to mobilize against climate change and for a just future. Moving Planet is a collaborative effort of many organizations, movements, and individuals.

Description of event: Join Board Member Jon Gorham via bicycle for a unique solar panel installation tour around the town of Woodbridge and learn who is saving energy and how. Leave the Town Green at 9:30 for short bike ride to solar installation number one, a passive solar and photovoltaic powered ceramics studio on Ford Road. The owner and builder will give a talk on how he has designed and built this building from on-site and recycled materials. We will next ride five minutes to solar installation number two, the Massaro Community Farm (MCF). The Wisconsin barn at MCF has a 5 kW solar PV array that the town Clean Energy Initiative Task Force donated to this 57-acre organic farm. We will then proceed down Ford Road to Savino Vineyard, our last stop and end there.

To register for this bike ride, go to Moving Planet: http://www.moving-planet.org/events/us/woodbridge/729

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Spin on the Bounty, Tour Des Farms Bike Ride

Posted on August 25, 2011 by melissa

Group puts a spin on discovering the area’s bounty

Christina Hennessy, Staff Writer
Published 09:25 p.m., Tuesday, August 16, 201

A crop of homegrown talent and some of the producers of the area’s agricultural bounty will come together Saturday, Aug. 20, under the auspices of CT Folk, to present the third annual Tour des Farms — a daylong event that connects cyclists to some of the state’s tasty treasures.



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Pizza, Pickles and Pedals Workshops a Success!

Posted on August 22, 2011 by melissa

Pizza, Pickles and Pedals a Success: Community farm offers a day of workshops and food.

By Gerald Baldino, Bethwood Patch, Monday, August 29, 2011

Jane Torello and Invasive Species workshopOn Saturday, the Massaro Community Farm of Woodbridge hosted a Pizza, Pickles and Pedals event. The event ran from 10:30-5:00 and featured agricultural and culinary workshops spread throughout the day as well as music and food.

Read more here…

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Music, Pizza and Bike Riders at Massaro Community Farm

Posted on August 21, 2011 by melissa

Tour des Farms Rolls Through Region, By Julie Weisberg, Bethwood Patch

More than 100 riders take part in third annual bicycling event that spotlights local musicians together with local growers.

August 20, 2011: It was without a doubt a beautiful August day for a bicycle ride. And fresh vegetables. And fresh fruit. And fresh dairy. And fresh, local musical sounds.

CT Folk‘s third annual Tour des Farms — a 25-mile leisure bike ride to local farms, gardens, and other agricultural treasures in Connecticut — rolled the hills and valleys of Amity earlier today.

Throughout this morning and early afternoon the tour made stops at Treat Farm and Field View Farm in Orange, Massaro Community Farm and Savino Vineyards in Woodbridge, as well as the Ansonia Nature Center.

Read more here…

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CT NOFA Workshop CANCELLED

Posted on August 15, 2011 by melissa

Due to heavy rains, the CT NOFA workshop, Planning For the Fall and Winter Harvest with Farm Manager Steve Munno, has been cancelled. We will be rescheduling this event. Please check back with us for more info. Thank you!

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Tour des Farms Cycles Through New Haven County Farms

Posted on August 12, 2011 by melissa

by Analiese Paik, Founder, Fairfield Green Food Guide, LLC

The summer is coming to an end and it’s time to check a few more things off your “must do this summer” list. Family outing? Farm visits? Live music? CT Folk’s Tour des Farms offers it all during an organized bike tour with scheduled stops to discover local food sources, hidden green spaces and local musicians. The Tour is appropriate for most riders over the age of twelve.

Read more here…

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CT Folk Artist Michele Riganese appears Sat Aug 20th at the Farm!

Posted on August 11, 2011 by melissa

Tour des Farms: Pedaling with a purpose

Written by Bettina Thiel, Amity Observer
Wednesday, 10 August 2011 12:26

ORANGE-WOODBRIDGE — CT Folk’s Tour des Farms, a day-long bicycle ride on Saturday, Aug. 20, will start at Treat Farm in Orange with stops at Massaro Farm and Savino Vineyards in Woodbridge, Field View Farm and the Ansonia Nature Center.

The tour will take cyclists to local farms, gardens and other agricultural sites along a 25-mile route. At each farm riders can stop to hear a Connecticut-grown musician perform.

CT Folk has programmed a lineup of independent singer/songwriters from across the state. Artists will perform for riders at each farm stop with their blend of contemporary folk and roots music. At the end of the tour, riders and non-riders are invited to an outdoor concert at Treat Farm, 361 Old Tavern Road, Orange, featuring a song swap with all singer/songwriters heard along the route.

read more here…

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Tour des Farms and Pizza, Pickles and Pedals

Posted on August 9, 2011 by scott

“Who doesn’t like a bike ride on a late summer day? Or to eat fresh, locally grown produce and dairy right on the farm? Or to enjoy live music performed by Connecticut-based musicians in the natural theater of the great outdoors?

How about an all-day, family-friendly event that combines all three?”
- Julie Weisberg of the Orange Patch wrote an article about our Pizza, Pickles and Pedals event (Aug. 20) that is also in association with CT Folk’s Tour des Farms.

Read the article and come out to Massaro Farm August 20th for an all day family affair!

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Crops Hit by Hail

Posted on August 9, 2011 by scott

Robin Walluck of the ValleyGazette.com wrote a story about the hail storm that hit the farm bad:

“The Massaro Community Farm on the Ansonia-Woodbridge town line, didn’t luck out on Monday, Aug. 1, as hail and heavy rain hit the area. The farm got slammed by the storm.

‘The damage is significant,’ said Melissa Waldron Lehner, outreach and partnership coordinator in Woodbridge. “The remay hoop house is torn in a bunch of places and lettuce and other leafy greens have been ripped to shreds. The zucchini are all dented, and the hail ripped tomatoes off the vine.”

Please read more here.

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