Osamequin Farm is a working farm and community space with three primary channels of focus: stewarding the land, hosting a cooperative of small farmers, and offering educational events and meaningful gatherings for our community. We cultivate organic crops as part of our land stewardship including blueberries, vegetables, medicinal herbs, dye crops, cut flowers, and forest raised mushrooms. We partner with our community members to maintain the existing trails throughout the nearly 400 acres of conserved open space that we steward, as well as encouraging native plants in the landscape and fighting against pernicious invasives.

We offer educational programs throughout the year which center around growing food, our role within the ecosystem, sustainable land stewardship, and nature based art. We strive to offer programming that is accessible to a wide range of ages, and we cherish our intergenerational events and activities. Some of our most popular programs annually are our community wreath building weekend in December, our community maple boil in the late winter, the “kids in the garden” series of workshops for toddlers, our natural dyeing workshops, themed guided hikes through the trails, and our family campout in the summer.

We host a paid summer internship and apprenticeship program for teens and partner with local schools to offer experiential learning opportunities. We welcome several visiting artists year after year to use the space and resources available to practice their work and offer workshops on the farm. The natural landscape grounds all of our work, and we strive to serve all ages with programs suited to their unique abilities and needs. Each year we forge new connections and partnerships and find more ways to share the space that we have with others.

To facilitate our natural dyeing programming, we grow a variety of annual and perennial dye crops on Flower Hill in addition to what we’re able to find and forage around the property. Workshops with visiting dye artists occur spring, summer and fall, and we host private workshops and parties throughout the year, as well as offering a kids’ bundle dyeing activity to any field trips or group visits. In 2023 we hosted our first DYE PARTY and are looking forward to continuing!

We raise Leicester Longwool/Shetland sheep and offer their wool for sale each year.

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