Thousand Leaves Herb Farm

06/28/2025

Join us again this week at the Rockport Exchange Farmers' Market Saturday from 9am-1pm

06/18/2025

We'll be at the Rockport Exchange Farmers'Market this weekend and next with our culinary and medicinal herb starts. Come down and say hi!

10/20/2024

Call to Action!

DTA and MDAR have announced a cut to HIP benefits, beginning December 1st.

It has just been announced that recipients of the Massachusetts Healthy Incentives Program (HIP) will have their HIP benefits reduced by 50-75% starting in December 2024 through the end of the fiscal year.

Please call or email:
Governor Maura Healey (617) 725-4005
Email the Governor's Office | Mass.gov

Use this tool to find your state senator and representative (enter your home address)
Find My Legislator (malegislature.gov)

Here is a script to use/adapt

Email subject: Make the MA Healthy Incentive program whole!

My name is _____________________ and I am a resident of _____________________. I am contacting you to ask that you take immediate action to fully fund the Healthy Incentives Program (HIP) budget to 25 million dollars for FY 2025 to ensure that MA SNAP users can maintain access to the food they need.

Each year, the number of people relying on HIP to access fresh fruits and vegetables has increased.

This program is vital to the health and wellbeing of our lowest income families, seniors, and people with disabilities. If the legislature fails to fund HIP, over 175,000 households will loose 50-75 % of their monthly HIP benefit starting in this December.

On an economic level, this will obliterate income for local farmers who rely on the HIP program to support their livelihoods, and eliminate jobs within the mid-tier of the local food system including jobs for youth.

We need your advocacy and support NOW to fully fund HIP this December and beyond.

Your constituent,

Email Rebecca Miller, Policy Director at the Massachusetts Food System Collaborative, at [email protected] with any questions about this advocacy alert. I am here to be a resource for you!

06/22/2024

Harbinger of summer.

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06/19/2024

We've been tending to these lovely little herbs since late March and they are almost ready to go home with you! We will be selling potted planters and herbs starts at the Rockport Farmers Market this weekend and next.
Drop by and say hi!

Saturday June 22nd +29th

11/12/2023

We will be at the Rockport Holiday Market on Sunday November 19th from 10-3pm at the Whale's Jaw Cafe

Hi All! Please join us Sunday November 19th (the Sunday before Thanksgiving) at Whales Jaw Cafe - 17 Railroad Ave Rockport for our Holiday Farmers Market - stock up on local produce, honey, soaps, salt, baked goods and more! Whales Jaw will have food and beverages for sale so come on by do some shopping, get some lunch and enjoy the live music!

03/06/2023

Enhance local farm viability! Bills HD.1170 & SD.261, A proposal for a legislative amendment to the constitution relative to agricultural and horticultural lands, have been introduced in the legislature by State Representative Paul Schmid and Senator Jo Comerford! This proposed constitutional amendment will make farmland of any size eligible for tax relief.

Please reach out to your state legislators to ask them to co-sponsor these bills!
Find your legislators: https://malegislature.gov/Search/FindMyLegislator

02/28/2023

BOSTON -- The Massachusetts Department of Agricultural Resources (MDAR) announced today that Massachusetts has been awarded $1,410,222 to expand the highly popular Senior Farmers Market...

01/26/2023

🚨 We need HIP enacted into law this session for sustainable farms and healthy families! Please call your state rep & senator to urge them to cosponsor the HIP enabling legislation HD2737 & SD63! 🚨

🥬 HD.2737, filed by Representative Mindy Domb, and SD63, filed by Senator Anne Gobi, will ensure that HIP will exist in the law as a program at the Department of Transitional Assistance, and would preserve the integrity of the program design so that the program can continue to carry out its mission effectively.

☎️ We are asking you to please reach out to your state representative and senator to ask them to co-sponsor these bills by January 27th. Not sure who your legislators are? Find them here: https://malegislature.gov/Search/FindMyLegislator 📱

11/29/2022

Where our food comes from, how we eat it, and what we drink to wash it down