The Farm School, located in Athol, Massachusetts, is a family run farm that provides children with the real on-hands experience of working a farm. They provide multi-day residential school-year and summer programs for the over 1,500 young people and their teachers, a year-long apprentice program to train adults in modern sustainable agriculture, and an on-site one-room middle school. Careful mentoring, meaningful work, humor and kindness are at the center of all they do.

Chef Peter Davis is a significant buyer from several area farmers, particularly from The Farm School, keeping his menu flexible day-to-day so that he can use what’s not only in season but what’s extraordinary at the moment.

Visit www.farmschool.org for more information.

Photos courtesy of Tom Underwood