Profiles in Belmont: Farmer Tim

 Environment, May/June 2024, Newsletter, Open Space  Comments Off on Profiles in Belmont: Farmer Tim
Apr 302024
 
Profiles in Belmont: Farmer Tim

By Elissa Ely Choosing a favorite vegetable or melon, if you happen to be Farmer Tim Carroll, is like choosing a favorite child. If he’s eating a cantaloupe from his farm, cantaloupe is his favorite. When he’s eating a cherry tomato, the cantaloupe steps aside. “I’m not a fennel guy,” he says, but with such respect that no fennel could resent him. There are dozens and dozens of vegetable children in Farmer Tim’s world. Since 2015, his Dudley, MA, farm has grown multiple varieties of up to 50 kinds of produce each August through October. The season starts aboveground with [READ MORE]

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Belmont Was Once a Town of Farms

 Historic Preservation, Newsletter, Open Space, Plants, September 2021  Comments Off on Belmont Was Once a Town of Farms
Aug 232021
 
Belmont Was Once a Town of Farms

By Jane Sherwin Until the mid-20th century, agriculture was a significant part of Belmont life and economy. Three hundred years ago, it would have been unusual to find a family in this area with no engagement at all in growing things. Even a shoemaker would most likely have a few chickens, or a milk cow, or a small garden for vegetables.  The settlements on the land that is now Belmont go back nearly four hundred years. In 1630, Sir Richard Saltonstall led a group of families inland from the Massachusetts Bay Colony, to the area we now call Watertown, to [READ MORE]

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Belmont Farmers’ Market Adapts to COVID-19

 July-August 2020, Newsletter, Parking  Comments Off on Belmont Farmers’ Market Adapts to COVID-19
Jun 302020
 
Belmont Farmers’ Market Adapts to COVID-19

By Mary Bradley The Belmont Farmers’ Market, located in the municipal lot behind Belmont Center, will be open from June 4 to October 29 this year. Market hours are Thursday afternoons from 2 to 6:30 PM. The Belmont Food Collaborative spent the months prior to the June 4 opening on zoom calls, in email discussions, and in webinars with other farmers’ market organizers and state officials. Their mission was to incorporate the social distancing rules and regulations mandated by the Massachusetts Department of Agriculture, the Massachusetts Department of Public Health, and Belmont’s Select Board and Board of Health into a [READ MORE]

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