Today, we spent the morning and early afternoon at Great Brook Farm State Park in Carlisle, Massachusetts. An educational interactive fully-functional for-profit dairy operation, the farm combined a classic New England agrarian landscape with cutting-edge robotics technology for the milking process. On a guided tour, we learned about stages in the cows' development in relation to the output of the farm, as well as ethics of animal agriculture, technicalities of the organic label, locally-sourced food products, and public field educational programs.
We got to meet some of the calves, steers, and heifers, and observe all farm operations firsthand along the way. While we got a pretty in-depth look at input into the local food system today, we're looking forward to seeing the impact and human and labor issues of these processes in the city of Boston later in the week, starting tomorrow with immigrant farm worker communities.
-Meg and Casey
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