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Harvest Festival, September 27, 2009 1- 4 pm, Dracut MA
Please join us for a meaningful and fun-filled afternoon! First, meet immigrant farmers whose experience with New Entry has inspired international initiatives to improve conditions in farmers' homeland communities. Second, help us inaugurate our new incubator training site, located near the intersection of Route 113 and Jones Ave.
RSVP to nesfp@tufts.edu
The 2009 Fall Harvest Festival will feature three New Entry farmers working to share their knowledge, skills, and assistance to folks in their home countries. Join New Entry and this year's featured farmers:
- Adisson Toussaint (NE'08), Haiti
- Nikki Makarutsa (NE'07), Zimbabwe
Note: Nikki was featured on NPR's Here and Now with Robin Young and on Morning Edition. Listen to the broadcast. - Mr. Visoth Kim (NE'04), Cambodia
This event will also provide the chance to speak with project staff and farmers to learn about our beginning farmer training programs, our efforts to preserve endangered farmland, and to connect folks to farm employment and healthy food. Meet and network with other project supporters who believe in our mission. New Entry provides hands on training and technical assistance to a multi-cultural beginning farmer audience, including immigrants and refugees, as they do their part to help sustain Massachusetts agriculture and provide fresh, healthy food to our local communities.
Other Activities:
- Enjoy Live Music by Marie Duprey with Michael Ross and Gail & Allen Wiegner.
- Shop at our Farmers Market!
- Feast on delicious ethnic food sold by local vendors.
- Enjoy Hayrides, games for kids & adults, and visit our Petting Zoo!
- Bring a blanket and chairs for enjoying the afternoon of music, food, and fun.
Suggested donation, at the door: $10
You can also help by bringing the following items to donate to needy communities abroad:
Nikki Makarutsa will collect pencils, pens, crayons, dictionaries (middle school level), writing pads, and new or gently used children's books, for Mapazuli School, in Zvishabane, Zimbabwe. Nikki will speak about how New Entry helped her find her own land, and how this land connected her to a church through which she helps fill a critical need for school supplies in her homeland.
Adisson Toussiant will collect new or gently used small hand tools for his farming cooperative, located in Trou-du-Nord, Haiti. Adisson will speak about how he uses the New Entry model to help motivate the farming cooperative in his homeland with new technology he learned from New Entry.
Mr. Visoth Kim will speak about how he uses his technical skills and lessons learned with New Entry to mentor his farming community on his annual winter visits to Kampong Speu, Cambodia.
RSVP to nesfp@tufts.edu