Labor of Love combines work and play in community. We ask that all participants fill out this form prior to arriving on the land. We look forward to greeting you!

Saturday August 23th

10am-2pm: Trip to/Meeting at Colonel Ashley House in Sheffield for an event put on by Sheffield Historical Society. The Ashley House is located at 117 Cooper Hill road Sheffield, MA 01257. If you want to carpool, feel free to meet here at the farm prior to going to the Ashley House. We can meet at the farm at 9:30am and leave the farm by 9:45am.

3pm-5pm: Work Party

Community Care 

In an effort to invite more care to our spaces and honor our interconnected existence we ask that you stay home if you feel sick, suspect you have been exposed to COVID-19, Whooping Cough, Measles or any other contagious disease within the past 10 days, are recovering from said virus and/or live/share indoor space with someone who currently has any of the illnesses above in order to minimize spread. 

We will have PPE ( Personal Protective Equipment ) available and will be outdoors for the entire event.  Please test at home the day of the event. We will also have tests onsite for those who need.

Join us for a potluck dinner by the fire and a night under the stars watching Daughters of the Dust. BYOB (Bring your own Blanket to lounge on).

Please rsvp here. When you fill out the form, in the notes let us know what food you may be bringing. Make sure your dish has ingredients listed clearly on the container.

Guests are welcome to camp overnight and stay through the remainder of the weekend. Suggested contribution is $20-$40.

Community Care 

In an effort to invite more care to our spaces and honor our interconnected existence we ask that you stay home if you feel sick, suspect you have been exposed to COVID-19, Whooping Cough, Measles or any other contagious disease within the past 10 days, are recovering from said virus and/or live/share indoor space with someone who currently has any of the illnesses above in order to minimize spread. When you fill out the form to rsvp, if you cannot provide proof of negative COVID test upon arrival, you will be asked to test when you do arrive.

We will have PPE ( Personal Protective Equipment ) available and will be outdoors for the entire event.  Please test at home the day of the event. We will also have tests onsite for those who need.

An invitation to allow our tattered clothing to ignite inspiration and encourage less consumption.

Join us on Friday August 22nd, 1-4pm as we learn from teaching artist d.s.lookkin how to mend our tattered clothes and textiles. Bring an item with you that needs mending. No need to have previous sewing/mending experience. All skill levels and beginners welcome.

Please fill out this form before arriving to the land.

Community Care 

In an effort to invite more care to our spaces and honor our interconnected existence we ask that you stay home if you feel sick, suspect you have been exposed to COVID-19, Whooping Cough, Measles or any other contagious disease within the past 10 days, are recovering from said virus and/or live/share indoor space with someone who currently has any of the illnesses above in order to minimize spread. When you fill out the form to rsvp, if you cannot provide proof of negative test upon arrival, you will be asked to test when you do arrive.

We will have PPE ( Personal Protective Equipment ) available and will be outdoors for the entire event.  Please test at home the day of the event. We will also have tests onsite for those who need.

Drop-In hours are every Tuesday & Thursday!

Volunteer Activities may include:

Set up/clean up of space

starting seeds

watering seeds/plants

labeling plants

sorting seeds

medicine-making

pruning

building projects

painting signs

seed collection

and more…

If you have volunteered before Sign up here

First time volunteers, please fill out this form

Drop-In hours are every Tuesday & Thursday!

Volunteer Activities may include:

Set up/clean up of space

starting seeds

watering seeds/plants

labeling plants

sorting seeds

medicine-making

pruning

building projects

painting signs

seed collection

and more…

If you have volunteered before Sign up here

First time volunteers, please fill out this form

Drop-In hours are every Tuesday & Thursday!

Volunteer Activities may include:

Set up/clean up of space

starting seeds

watering seeds/plants

labeling plants

sorting seeds

medicine-making

pruning

building projects

painting signs

seed collection

and more…

If you have volunteered before Sign up here

First time volunteers, please fill out this form

Labor of Love combines work and play in community. We ask that all participants fill out this form prior to arriving on the land. We look forward to greeting you!

Saturday, April 19th

9 AM - 12 PM Work Party

Land Prep, Deer fence install

12 PM - 1 PM Potluck Lunch

Time to nourish and rest. Please list the ingredients in your dish. 

2 PM - 4 PM  Waterfall Hike

Community Care 

In an effort to invite more care to our spaces and honor our interconnected existence we ask that you stay home if you feel sick, suspect you have been exposed to COVID-19, Whooping Cough, Measles or any other contagious disease within the past 10 days, are recovering from said virus and/or live/share indoor space with someone who currently has any of the illnesses above in order to minimize spread. 

We will have PPE ( Personal Protective Equipment ) available and will be outdoors for the entire event.  Please test at home the day of the event. We will also have tests onsite for those who need

We invite you to join us for a blessing of the land.  We will dum, dance together, make offerings and share small bites.

Join us as we officially open up the season on

Sunday April 6th 1130a-130pm at Mumbet's Freedom Farm. 

We will be joined by Sister Noel and Krista Love bringing the healing vibrations of drum, dance and song to the land. We will also be making an offering to the land, so if you are planning to attend, bring sweets, flowers to add to the ofrenda.  We will have tea and light snacks afterwards. 

Noel Staples Freeman, affectionately known as Sis. Noel, is a dedicated educator, performer, and cultural ambassador based in Pittsfield, MA. Raised in Dorchester, MA, she holds a B.S. in Children’s Theatre/Performing Arts and Dance from Emerson College (1987) and brings over 40 years of experience teaching and performing in communities both locally and abroad.

Krista Speroni of True Foods HV, TRUE FOODS is a grassroots, food preservation collective based in the mid-Hudson Valley, NY (unceded land of the Lenape & Mohican people). We are in the practice of building a hyper-local, alternative model to growing, sharing & preserving food supported by a sliding-scale, membership

Let us know you are coming here 

Community Care 

In an effort to invite more care to our spaces and honor our interconnected existence we ask that you stay home if you feel sick, suspect you have been exposed to COVID-19 within the past 10 days, are recovering from COVID-19 and/or live/share indoor space with someone who currently has COVID-19 in order to minimize spread. 

We will have PPE ( Personal Protective Equipment ) available and will be outdoors for the entire event.  Please test at home the day of the event. We will also have tests onsite for those who need

Gratitude Celebration.. We ask that all participants fill out this form prior to arriving on the land. We look forward to greeting you!

Saturday, November 16th

3 PM- 6 PM Gratitude Celebration

To give thanks and reflect on the past season while we imagine the next. More details coming soon.

Donations welcome $11-111 to support our work

Join us for a collective experience of deepening our understanding of cotton’s rich and complex histories in African and Indigenous diasporas via sensory based exploration, storytelling, agricultural skill sharing, and creative play with cotton. Refreshments will be served during our time together.

Proof of a negative COVID test is required to attend, and if you need support with accessing a test please reach out via dm/email.

Postponed unitl Spring 2025

Labor of Love combines work and play in community. We ask that all participants fill out this form prior to arriving on the land. We look forward to greeting you!

Saturday, October 12th

9 AM - 12 PM Work Party

Harvest & package produce, build structures as needed, weed, plant, etc.

12 PM - 1 PM Potluck Lunch

Time to nourish and rest. Please list the ingredients in your dish. 

2 PM - 4 PM   Workshop

Learn skills to tend to the land, ourselves, and the beings around us. 

8-10pm Special Concert at Race Brook Lodge with Shawn Stevens!!!!!

Join us for Saturday night of Indigenous People’s Day weekend with Shawn Stevens for an evening of music, storytelling and prophesy..

Shawn is  an enrolled member of the Stockbridge Munsee Band of Mohicans, whose ancestral homelands are the Berkshires, including the entire Hudson Valley. A spiritualist, musician, dancer, storyteller, historian, Mohican cultural educator, and sharer of knowledge, Shawn has been fulfilling his path journey for decades by doing a variety of sharing in his people’s ancestral lands as well as the Midwest.

Come join us on October 13th from 12-3 PM for a special event celebrating Indigenous Peoples' Day with a ceremonial walk on Main Street. We will gather at the Gazebo behind Great Barrington Town Hall and walk together to honor and recognize the rich history and culture of Indigenous peoples, organized by Alliance for a Viable Future

Labor of Love combines work and play in community. We ask that all participants fill out this form prior to arriving on the land. We look forward to greeting you!

Saturday, September 21st

9 AM - 12 PM Work Party

Harvest & package produce, build structures as needed, weed, plant, etc.

12 PM - 1 PM Potluck Lunch

Time to nourish and rest. Please list the ingredients in your dish. 

2 PM - 4 PM  Workshop with Tambacum!!!!!!

Tambacum is a co-organizer of the Festival del Tamborito held in Nuquí every January. This presentation explores the origins, evolution, and cultural importance of Tamborito, a traditional music and dance genre from Colombia’s Pacific coast close to Panama.

Tamborito & Cumbancha Music Class This interactive music class introduces participants to the rhythms of Tamborito and Cumbancha, exploring their origins, cultural significance, and inviting audience participation to experience these vibrant Colombian traditions from the norther pacific coast of Chocó firsthand.

9 AM - 12 PM Work Party

Harvest & package produce, build structures as needed, weed, plant, etc.

12 PM - 1 PM Potluck Lunch

Time to nourish and rest. Please list the ingredients in your dish. 

2 PM - 4 PM  Workshop

Learn skills to tend to the land, ourselves, and the beings around us. 

TBD

Check for details soon!

More details to follow. Check back soon!

Ayni Herb Farm Work Day

Sharing our labor with Ayni Herb Farm. Please follow this link for more information.

Labor of Love combines work and play in community. We ask that all participants fill out this form prior to arriving on the land. We look forward to greeting you!

Saturday, July 20th

9:00- 12:00 PM Farm Work Party

Weed, plant, build structures as needed, etc.

12:15-12:45 PM Lunch

Time to nourish and rest. Please list the ingredients in your dish. 

1:00-2:00 PM CURE: Black/Water Experience in Community

Conversations on Ceremony, Creativity and Climate with Ashni and Ebony

4:45-6:15 PM CURE: Black/Water Experience in Community

of soil, sky and sea... a processional

A sharing from the weeklong residency with Ebony Noelle Golden and Jupiter Legacy Project

Drop-In hours are every Tuesday & Thursday!

Volunteer Activities may include:

Set up/clean up of space

starting seeds

watering seeds/plants

labeling plants

sorting seeds

medicine-making

pruning

building projects

painting signs

seed collection

and more…

If you have volunteered before Sign up here

First time volunteers, please fill out this form

Drop-In hours are every Tuesday & Thursday!

Volunteer Activities may include:

Set up/clean up of space

starting seeds

watering seeds/plants

labeling plants

sorting seeds

medicine-making

pruning

building projects

painting signs

seed collection

and more…

If you have volunteered before Sign up here

First time volunteers, please fill out this form

Drop-In hours are every Tuesday & Thursday!

Volunteer Activities may include:

Set up/clean up of space

starting seeds

watering seeds/plants

labeling plants

sorting seeds

medicine-making

pruning

building projects

painting signs

seed collection

and more…

If you have volunteered before Sign up here

First time volunteers, please fill out this form

Drop-In hours are every Tuesday & Thursday!

Volunteer Activities may include:

Set up/clean up of space

starting seeds

watering seeds/plants

labeling plants

sorting seeds

medicine-making

pruning

building projects

painting signs

seed collection

and more…

If you have volunteered before Sign up here

First time volunteers, please fill out this form

Drop-In hours are every Tuesday & Thursday!

Volunteer Activities may include:

Set up/clean up of space

starting seeds

watering seeds/plants

labeling plants

sorting seeds

medicine-making

pruning

building projects

painting signs

seed collection

and more…

If you have volunteered before Sign up here

First time volunteers, please fill out this form

Drop-In hours are every Tuesday & Thursday!

Volunteer Activities may include:

Set up/clean up of space

starting seeds

watering seeds/plants

labeling plants

sorting seeds

medicine-making

pruning

building projects

painting signs

seed collection

and more…

If you have volunteered before Sign up here

First time volunteers, please fill out this form