Each year, the Patricelli Center for Social Entrepreneurship awards $5,000 seed grants to fund the launch or early-stage growth of a project, program, or venture. Long Lane Farm was one of this year’s winners. Since its founding in 2003, Long Lane Farm has worked towards a model of food sovereignty, in which all people not…
Long Lane Farm is TEN YEARS OLD this spring! This calls for a CELEBRATION! Please come from far and wide to help us celebrate the first ten years, Friday and Saturday, May 23 and 24th, 2014! On Friday evening there will be a Long Lane 10 Year Anniversary Dinner under a tall white tent on the North College Lawn.…
In June, Hailey Sowden ’15 gave us a preview of plans for The Middletown Food Project, an initiative of Wesleyan’s Long Lane Farm that was funded by a seed grant from the Patricelli Center for Social Entrepreneurship. Now, as the summer comes to an end and the fall harvest season approaches, Hailey and her collaborators…
The first day of summer is coming up and The Middletown Food Project is about to take off. We’ve been planning all through the winter and spring, and it’s finally time to start getting our hands dirty! Here’s some background on the farm and the project: After working for a few years at Long Lane…
