Incubator Farm
Building Perennial Raised Beds
Participants arrived to the Building Permanent Raised Beds workshop, at the Incubator Farm and taught by Sean Dembroski of Edible Acres, from as close as Ecovillage and as far as…
Read MoreFarm Design Make-Over by Design Connect
Design Connect – a multidisciplinary, student-run, community design organization based in Cornell University – has gathered a group of 14 students in a project team to develop and design the…
Read MoreHigh School Students from Japan Kick-Off Fall Volunteer Project
Entering the Frog Common House at Ecovillage last weekend, the room was abuzz with chatter- in Japanese! Forty Japanese students were visiting Ithaca from Izumigaoka High School in Kanazawa, and…
Read MoreOne of Us: Putting Down Roots – Tompkins Weekly
One of Us: Putting Down Roots Posted on July 3, 2017 in Living, News By Sue Henninger Tompkins Weekly Photo by Jamie Love (different photo than included in original article) Historically, America has…
Read MoreGroundswell Story: Alison Smith
Alison came to Ithaca to find her place in our farm community, specifically for flowers. After apprenticing at Littleflowers Farm for the tail end of last season, she joined Groundswell’s…
Read MoreIncubator Highlight: Ability in Bloom
Article by Glen, Ability in Bloom Program Coordinator: Ability in Bloom is a social enterprise program of Challenge Workforce Solutions where our goal is to provide jobs and work skills…
Read MoreIncubator Highlight: Paw Pha
Meet one of our returning Incubator Farmers: Paw Pha Paw started farming at the Incubator in 2015, operating a ¼ acre, and growing lots of Gongura (Roselle) and other traditional Burmese vegetables, including…
Read MoreGroundswell’s Incubator Farm is full for 2017!
Groundswell is pleased to announce that our Incubator Farm is full for 2017! In 2016, we graduated our first farmer, Surik Mehrabyan after 4 years in our program. This created space for several…
Read MoreIncubator Update: A new hoop house for the wash station!
We are excited to say that the Incubator Farm now has a fantastic new hoop house that will soon house our farm wash station. Here our farmers will be able…
Read MoreIncubator Update: Burmese Farmers at Incubator
As Groundswell was planning the Incubator Farm Program, people had been telling me about a man named Aung Htoo, a farmer from Burma who might be interested in farming locally.…
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