Sirius Community

Sirius has three large, raised-bed organic gardens along with an orchard, berry patch, and two four-season greenhouses, including one that provides significant solar gain for the community center during cold months in addition to food. Apprentices and interns work along with staff members nearly through the year, not only tending the produce, but also learning to can and preserve. Freezers and root cellars provide ample storage for the preserved food so that we have garden output available all year. This includes such things as dried cultivated herbs, shitake mushrooms, chestnuts, and fermented products like sauerkraut and kimchi. We also keep chickens, use mulching including a lot of innoculated wood chips in our orchards and forest, and vermi-composting.

Shutesbury, Massachusetts