Dee Dee is thrilled to be farming and gardening in the Pioneer Valley, where she spent her early summers visiting her grandparent’s farm in Northampton.  In college, she pursued her childhood love for the natural world by joining the Horticulture club, interning on a farm, and care-taking for a public school garden.  Last summer, Dee Dee was the Garden and Stained Glass Instructor at a residential camp in rural Vermont.  Since graduating three years ago, she has enjoyed teaching environmental education at Nature’s Classroom in the Berkshires.  Through this nonprofit organization, Dee Dee gets to hike, explore forests, and teach ecology to a variety of students.  In her free time, she has a passion for drawing, art projects, cooking, and making flower arrangements.

Mida graduated from Hampshire College in 2010 and is quite happy to have become a part of the larger Pioneer Valley Community.  She enjoys spending time with plants and animals (particularly kale and goats), quilting, riding her bike, reading, and playing cribbage.  She has worked on several farms including the Hampshire College Farm, Isle of View Farm, and Juniper Hill Farm.  She spent the 2010-11 school year teaching educational gardening programs in Holyoke and Springfield.  This is her second year as an instructor for the Farm and Garden Camp and she looks forward to spending more time with Austin - the llama, Samson - the angora rabbit, and the rest of the wonderful staff.

Alice spent her early childhood frustrating the farmer at the farm down her street in England by hiding in his hay barn with groups of neighborhood kids and bringing the cows apples.  She graduated from Hampshire College, and loves the mix of agriculture and city in the valley and has stayed.  As well as working on several CSA vegetable farms in the area and running a jam and jelly business herself, she has been teaching children on farms and in gardens for over six years and loves learning old and new ideas for connecting kids to farming.  She likes hiking, hearing and telling stories, doing drama and art with kids, and learning and teaching traditional food skills in cooking, canning, pickling and other harvest preservation.