FORECASTER • December 27, 2022
A farm in Falmouth, where students learn to cultivate crops and asylum-seekers and immigrants work the land as they did in their home countries, will receive some upgrades in the new year, including solar power and barn renovations. Hurricane Valley Farm on Route 100, once slated to become a housing development, was obtained by the Falmouth Land Trust in 2015. Since 2018 it has been the home to Cultivating Community, a nonprofit that teaches youth how to grow and maintain crops and provides asylum seekers and other immigrants with the opportunity to grow food for their own families and to send to market, all as part of its mission to expand access to local, healthy food. The town has received a $50,000 grant for improvements.