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Blue Hill Field Report: Into the Woods
Tuesday, May 7, 2013 - 3:44pm

No longer a Blue Hill F.A.R.M.S. apprentice, BARTENDER, Tara O'Keefe reports for the North Woods on ramps, and fiddleheads and more.

Black Dirt Field Report: Finale ~ J & A Farm
Tuesday, April 23, 2013 - 4:41pm

Blue Hill Cafe's pastry chef, Melanie Moss, took her Black Dirt experience to heart, and, as an homage, has been baking a kale scone inspired by the...

Black Dirt Field Report: Part Two ~ Paffenroth Gardens
Monday, April 22, 2013 - 3:29pm

Only a few days into her externship, CIA San Antonio student Brianna Bond met up with one of Blue Hill's founding farmers, Alex Paffenroth, king of...

Black Dirt Field Report: Part One ~ W. Rogowski Farm
Friday, April 19, 2013 - 1:31pm

Twenty-four kitchen interns, F.A.R.M.S apprentices, cooks and servers took to the road, headed northwest and discovered the Hudson Valley's Black...

Blue Hill F.A.R.M.S. Report: Ashley Giddens, one week to go
Thursday, April 11, 2013 - 6:33pm

How can I summarize the past six months in a paragraph? One day I was helping to transplant vegetable seedlings into the ground, a few weeks later...

Blue Hill New York Report: Crystal Lingle talks F.A.R.M.S.
Tuesday, April 2, 2013 - 1:08pm

"From transplanting seedlings into the soil of the greenhouse to witnessing the first breath of a baby lamb, I see that spring is near. My...