Parents & Teachers - Resources

Books & Journals
Websites and Organizations
Other Farms
Recipes

Books & Journals

Aldo Leopold: For the Health of the Land, edited by Dr. J.B. Callicott

The Amazing Milk Book, C. Ross

A Sand County Almanac, Aldo Leopold

Beyond Ecophobia: Reclaiming the Heart in Nature Education, David Sobel

Big House, Little House, Back House, Barn: The Connected Farm Buildings of New England, Thomas Hubka

Diary of an Early American Boy: Noah Blake 1805, Eric Sloane

Eco-Farm, Charles Walters

Ecological Literacy, David Orr

The Essential Agrarian Reader: The Future of Culture, Community, and the Land, Norman Wirzba

Farm: A Year In The Life of An American Farmer, Richard Rhodes

Field Guide to New England Barns & Farm Buildings, T. D. Visser

The Garden Primer, Barbara Damrosch

A Guide to Nature in Winter, D. Stokes & L. Stokes

Horses in Harness: A Pictorial Recollection of the Horse-Drawn Decades, C. P. Fox

Keepers of Animals, By M.J Caduto & J. Bruhac

A Museum of Early American Tools, Eric Sloane

Nature: Suggested Activities to Motivate the Teaching of Outdoor Education, Dr. J. Thomas Adolph & Dr. Regis Q. McKnight

New England Forest Through Time: Insights from the Harvard Forest Dioramas, D. R. Foster & J. F. O’Keefe

North of Now: A Celebration of Country and the Soon the Be Gone, W. D. Wetherell

This Organic Life: Confessions of a Suburban Homesteader, Joan Dye Gussow

Outdoor Education: A Manual for Teaching in Nature’s Classroom, Mike Link

Reclaiming the Commons: Community Farms and Forests in a New England Town, Brian Donahue

A Reverence for Wood, Eric Sloane

The Second Barrel, Eric Sloane

Sharing Nature with Children, Joseph Cornell

Silent Spring, R. L. Carson

Small Farmers Journal

The Unsettling of America: Culture and Agriculture, Wendell Berry

We Were the Land’s: The Biography of a Homeplace, John Head

The Wilderness From Chamberlain Farm, Dean B. Bennett

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Websites & Organizations

• American Farmland Trust
• American Flatbread
• American Livestock Breeds Conservancy
• Association for Living History, Farm & Agricultural Museums
• Backyard Poultry Keepers
• The Barn Journal
• Belted Galloway Association
• Center for Rural Affairs
• The Center for Whole Communities
• Collaborative Regional Alliance for Farmer Training
• Eastern Native Seed Conservancy
• The Edible Schoolyard
• Farm to Table
• Farmland Information Center
• Farms for City Kids
• Fisher Museum Dioramas, Harvard Forest, Petersham, MA
• Food and Society Policy Fellows
• Four Season Farm
• Got Milk?
• Green Teacher
• Growing New Farmers
• Kiddy House: All About Farms
• Kids Gardening
• Lopez Island Land Trust
• Massachusetts Agribusiness links
• Massachusetts Agriculture in the Classroom
• Massachusetts 4H
• National Family Farm Collaborative
• Navajo-Churro Sheep Association
• Navajo Lifeway
• New England Cheesemaking Supply Company
• New England Heritage Breed Conservancy
• New England Small Farm Institute
• New England Wildflower Society
• The New Farm
• North American Farmers Direct Marketing Association
• Northeast Artisan Meats
• Northeast Organic Dairy Producers Alliance
• Orion Magazine Online
• Osprey Migration Tracking
• The Orton Family Foundation
• The Pfeiffer Center
• PLACE: Place-Based Landscape Analysis & Community Education
• Promising Practices in Afterschool
• Rural Heritage
• Rural Heritage Program
• Smokey House Center
• Sustainable Communities Network
• Sustainable Table
• The Thomas Jefferson Agricultural Institute
• USDA Agriculture in the Classroom
• The Vermont Earth Institute: The best things in life aren’t things
• www.rawmilk.com
• www.grassfarmer.com

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Other Farms

Thankfully, there are places just like the FARM Institute all over the country and especially in New England. We encourage everyone to visit these other farms.

Maine

Aldermere Farm, Rockport, MA
Morris Farm Trust, Wiscasset, ME

Massachusetts

Appleton Farms (A property of The Trustees of Reservations), Ipswich, MA
Drumlin Farm Wildlife Sanctuary, Lincoln,MA
The Farm School, Athol, MA
The Food Project, Lincoln & Dorchester, MA
Hancock Shaker Village, Pittsfield, MA
Old Sturbridge Village, Sturbridge, MA
Overlook Farm/Heifer Project, Rutland, MA

New Hampshire

Musterfield Farm, North Sutton, NH
Stonewall Farm, Keene, NH

New York

Pony Farm & Horse Power, Temple, NY
Sprout Creek Farm, Poughkeepsie, NY
Stone Barns Center for Food & Agriculture, Pocantico Hills, NY
The W. Rogowski Farm, Pine Island, NY

Rhode Island

Casey Farm, Saunderstown, RI

Vermont

Billings Farm & Museum, Woodstock, VT
Farms for City Kids, Reading, VT
Merck Forest and Farmland Center, Rupert, VT
The Mountain School, Vershire, VT
Shelburne Farm, Shelburne, VT
The Intervale, Burlington, VT

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The FARM Institute - Post Office Box 1868 - Edgartown, Massachusetts 02539 - (508) 627-7007