This is our third season growing Sehsapsing Blue Corn in partnership with the Lenape Center. We are continuing to increase the This is our third season growing Sehsapsing Blue Corn in partnership with the Lenape Center. We are continuing to increase the grow-out of this corn, a blue-black Lenape flint corn variety. We hope to harvest enough for both seed and food this year.  

Since 2020 we have been growing a variety of white corn as part of our partnership with seed keepers from the Mohawk community in Akwesasne. Each year the grow-out can be increased as we save seeds. Both seed and food are harvested and return home to the Canary – a community-wide educational and food sharing center in Akwesanse connected to the Akwesasne Freedom School. To learn more click here.   

Spring wheat is planted in the early spring and is harvested in July.

In the fall of 2019, we planted 10 acres of a meadow seed mix comprised largely of species native to the northeast. This meadow seed mix was created based on information learned in the Native Meadow Trial. The larger acreage compliments ongoing monitoring in the trial and provides an opportunity to learn more about establishment and management of a seeded meadow on a larger scale. In addition, the meadow allows for further study of the insect biodiversity and beneficial insects found in a seeded meadow.