Spring is in full swing at woven roots farm

Written By Woven Roots Farm

Image Description A hand tending to seedlings in a greenhouse full of transplants. Photo by Jen Salinetti.

Happy Spring from Woven Roots Farm. We are so excited that summer is right around the corner! As the weather gets warmer, we are reminded of the possibility of renewal, rebirth, regrowth, change, optimism, and joy. We feel it on the farm as migratory birds pass through and other native birds return home. Warblers, scarlet tanagers, catbirds, wood thrushes, and veeries have become more active.

A greenhouse full of rows of seedlings. Photo by Jen Salinetti.

We just finished our Spring Flower Share, full of tulips and fragrant narcissus. A CSA member recently commented that the flowers “have been beyond…BEYOND!!! So lush, so unusual, so full of vitality…thank you to all!!!  Xox.” Thank you to our Spring Tulip Share members!

Image Description A cluster of orange and pink tulips after harvest. Photo by Oona Sellow.

We also received some delightful feedback from our 2025 CSA members about what they are most excited for this season in our 2025 pre-season surveys:

  • “I'm starting my own garden this year and I'm so excited to see Woven Roots mission in action. I want to be a sponge and support this amazing work.”

  • “We're grateful to be part of this incredible farm family and the work you do to support the community.”

  • “Every piece of your produce feels like a work of art, like a precious jewel. Going to your farm is a relaxing drive, and the vibe is always friendly.”

Three farm crew members transplanting the first seedlings of the season by hand. Photo by Jen Salinetti.

Almost three weeks until the start of CSA season, we’ve been busy as bees. Our farm crew has been hard at work transplanting, as well as extensive field preparation and seeding. In addition, Jen has spent time at April Hill with Greenagers and kindergarteners from Muddy Brook Elementary School. We also recently hosted a bee and beekeepers' equipment pickup for the Northeast BIPOC & LGBTQ+ Beekeepers Collective and installed six hives at Woven Roots. And, we welcomed sixth, seventh, and eighth graders from the DuBois Middle School’s Project Connection Program to the farm for a tour and flower picking session. Sharing the farm with others is nourishing on so many levels for all of us. We’re so excited to create more moments to be in community over the coming months and years!

Image Description Left: Children’s hands in tubs of soil. Center: Child holds a translpant of lettuce above a tub of soil. Right: Children pick flowers in a daffodil bed.

Image Description Left: Three beekeepers work on building hives dressed in bee gear. Right: Four beekeepers in bee gear pose next to a hive with bees flying around them.

Through all this joy and abundance, we also hold heavy hearts thinking of all that is happening with anti-trans and reproductive rights legislation, access to food and healthcare, environmental deregulation, local and national abductions, increasing hate crimes, and continuous genocide and starvation in Gaza. The world can feel heavy. We honor these feelings of grief in tandem with gratitude for this land as a safe space offering an opportunity to communally heal from the tragedies of the outside world. Community is ever more important during times of distress.

We offer Woven Roots Farm as an oasis within the chaos. We want to highlight our dedication to supporting sustainability and the rejuvenation of the Earth, as well as our commitment to supporting our marginalized communities. We are dedicated to being a safe space for BIPOC, (im)migrant, non-citizen voices, LGBTQ+, disabled, and other intersecting and systemically exploited lived experiences. This space is home for everyone, regardless of where you come from or how you identify. We are also committed to and proudly a part of the changing of culture. We hope to be a beacon of safety and healing for all. In a world of capitalism, of structures of input and output, we value mutuality and reciprocity with the earth and each other.

With everything going on in the human world, nature continues peacefully. Spring evermore turns into summer, and the colors of flowers, songs of birds, and scenic landscapes of the farm vibrantly remind us of the joys of being alive here and the importance of gratitude for Mother Earth and her generous gifts. Last week, we had our first staff farm dinner. Sitting around a table full of food made of love, tea lights, and laughter, the importance of community was evident. We’re excited to grow our community as the CSA begins, as well as a forthcoming farmstore.

Image Description Farm Crew workers sit at a table to eat dinner in Woven Root’s community center barn with tea lights.

Some offerings from Woven Roots Farm that can help us stay grounded and connected—to our precious Mother Earth and to each other—during the weeks and months ahead:

Thank you for being part of this community and culture of change, hope, resilience, and love. We are honored to be growing with you.

Image Description Late summer photo of orange, pink, and yellow sunflowers with the Salinetti farm house in the background.

“To love a place is not enough. We must find ways to heal it.”

― Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants

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