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General Program Initiatives
- Carolina Farm Stewardship Association, December 2, 2008
Building New Farm Incubator Programs
Listen to this webinar featuring Jennifer Hashley, Project Director of New Entry, and some of the most knowledgeable farm incubator folks from across the country, speak about program initiatives, challenges and successes of farm incubator programs.
- Sunrise Radio Broadcast WUML, September 25, 2008
Project Director, Jennifer Hashley and Advisory Board member, Jodi Delibertis discuss the Jericho Road Project and its assistance to New Entry with pro-bono resources and professional assistance to the project in areas of strategic planning, marketing and design, development work, and copyediting.
Note: this is a 21.8mb mp3 file and may take a few moments to play
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Boston Globe, August 21, 2008
 Growing a new generation of farmers
New Entry farmers and Project Director, Jennifer Hashley discuss why cultivating new farmers is critical at this time in our history. "Who takes over the land and keeps it in production, when everybody’s saying, 'You can cash in and put condos on [the land]?' If they don't have someone to pass the farm and business to, [landowners] are not left with a lot of options."
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Lowell Sun, August 3, 2008
Program returns immigrants and local land to agriculture
A New Entry farmer, Project Director, Jennifer Hashley, and two landowners discuss why the project is important to them.
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Food Arts, June 2008
Plowing Toward Utopia
This article explores the challenges and rewards of the New American Farmer. “As the demand for local and sustainable produce, meat, poultry and dairy becomes stronger and meeting it becomes more profitable, so will the call for more new American farms get louder.” Jennifer Hashley, New Entry Project Director is quoted both for her own business venture, Pete and Jen’s Backyard Birds, and for New Entry’s role in helping provide important resources and training for new and beginning farmers.
- Lowell Sun, January 28, 2008
$50,000 grant will help small farmers with poultry processing
New Entry receives a $50,000 grant to help small farmers with poultry processing. Poultry processing has become a big obstacle for farmers with limited resources. The grant funding helps small producers learn about and meet poultry processing regulatory requirements. Learn more about the MPPU project here.
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Sunrise Radio Broadcast, August 2, 2007
Former New Entry Outreach Coordinator Amy Cook and farmer Nikki Makarutsa talk about New Entry during a live early morning radio program sponsored by UMass Lowell.
Note: this is a 22.6mb mp3 file and may take a few moments to play
- Press Release - March 19th, 2007
World PEAS Cooperative Announces Collaboration with UTEC Fresh Roots Program to Serve the Greater Lowell Community.
World PEAS Cooperative ("WPC") teams up with United Team Equality Center, a safe-haven program for youth development and grassroots organizing. WPC will mentor the youth in nursery management, specialized crop cultivation, and agricultural produce marketing. In turn, UTEC Fresh Roots program will sell its surplus through WPC, and also make its commercial kitchen available for use by WTC farmers to add value to their products.
- A World of Possibilities Podcast July 25, 2006
"A Hunger to Farm: Immigrant Farmers in America".
Founded in 1995, the Mainstream Media Project is a nonprofit public education and strategic communications organization that uses the mainstream broadcast media to raise public awareness about new approaches to longstanding issues. The organization produces an award-winning syndicated radio program, A World of Possibilities.
American farmers are an endangered species. They're aging rapidly and their kids aren't following them into the fields. At the same time, new waves of immigrants are flowing back to the land, bringing with them new flavors and new cuisines. On 7/25/06, staff member and New Entry farmer Suliman Kamara was interviewed for the programs podcast.
- The Eagle Tribune, May 3, 2006
World Harvest: Foreign plants bring variety to local gardens
A staff writer from the Eagle-Tribune explores the origins of many of our favorite vegetables as well as some new ones like water spinach, fava beans and Japanese red mustard. New Entry farmers are growing many of these old favorites and new exotic vegetables, as are other immigrant farming projects throughout the Northeast. The article contains tips for growing ethnic crops, sources for seeds, and a recipe for water spinach stir fry.
- The Lowell Sun, October 3, 2005
You Say Tomato…
A Lowell Sun journalist attends the 2005 harvest fair, held at White Gate Farm, in Dracut, MA, where he meets New Entry farmer Cornelius Tavuyanago. Cornelius is a native of Zimbabwe, who has lived in Lowell for ten years.
- The Boston Globe, June 2005
Taking root in a new land
This article features some of New Entry's Hmong farmers, namely Nou Yang and Soug Yang and they talk about how farming connects them with their homeland and heritage. The author links what NESPF is doing with the larger trend of immigrant farmers in Massachusetts and mentions other agricultural programs aimed at immigrants.
- Tufts Nutrition Magazine, Fall 2005
A plot of their own: how to grow a farmer
An in depth look at the New Entry Sustainable Farming Project, its staff and beginning farmers, this article overviews the challenges and successes of the project. Complete with stunning photographs of the crops and participants, this article paints a vibrant picture of New Entry often using the words of the farmers themselves.
- SARE Educator's Guide, September 2002. www.sare.org/bulletin/limited-resource.
The New Entry Sustainable Agriculture Project: Asian Immigrants Gain an Agricultural Edge.
New Entry was featured in the SARE Educator's Guide in September, 2002. The guide is intended to inspire agricultural educators to improve their outreach to limited-resource groups. We were showcased as a successful example of employing innovative teaching strategies (translation and videotaped demonstrations) and utilizing diverse community resources and educators to connect limited-resource growers to the mainstream agriculture community.
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