CJ Hughes, head farmer at Newhall Fields Community Farm, is joined by the farm's social media manager, Daybar Bugler for a weekly show about the trials, triumphs and techniques of running a non-profit farm with a staff of volunteers and Peabody community members.
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S3 Ep4: All Things Programming with Lindsay and Jeanette
Season 3 · Episode 4
Friday, May 1, 2026 • Duration 27:16
Day is joined by Program Coordinator Lindsay Cornell Beal and Farm Director Jeanette Mcginn.
S3 Ep3: The Salem Food Pantry with Fred Norton
Season 3 · Episode 3
Friday, April 24, 2026 • Duration 28:45
Daybar talks reducing food waste and normalizing shopping at food pantries with Salem Pantry Food Acquisition and Distribution Manager, Fred Norton
S3 Ep2: Creatives on the Farm with Emily and Debby
Season 3 · Episode 2
Friday, April 17, 2026 • Duration 22:14
Day is joined this week by Emily and Debby, the creative minds behind the branding and storytelling you see put out by the farm online.
A Visit to Newhall Fields 4/29/19Wading through air full of mists,my husband, my sister, and I slopacross long mud-tracks into open field.Jeannette is all smiles as she tromps to meet usin front of the straw-strewn gardens, her raincoatstreaked with earth, her cap dark with rain."Taste this" she says, plucking herbslike chocolate mint. "Stomping on chamomileis showing it love..."and we stomp and we stompand we press and we stompand we laugh and we love it.Running herbs through our fingers,a cold, early spring airruns its fingers through our hair."There is light, there are nutrients,there is carbon" she says, and we learnhow to farm the sun.Drawn by fragrances and magic,my sister crouches—knees flanking her armslike a frog—like a child.Soft eyes below the brim of his blue baseball cap, my husband stolidly surveys;his eyes as green as the tree line. I think gratefully, prayerfully, he has touched peace, he has rooted in it,he has found it here.There is something in all this—the brown and black and green, green, green! things full of flavor all asking for love.
Newhall Fields Community Farm events page:
https://newhallfieldscommunityfarm.org/events/
Volunteer at Newhall Fields Community Farm:
https://newhallfieldscommunityfarm.org/volunteer/
S3 Ep1: Welcome Back with CJ and Rebecca
Season 3 · Episode 1
Friday, April 10, 2026 • Duration 21:14
Daybar kicks off the new season of The Cultivator with a conversation with CJ Hughes and Rebecca Ingalls. They talk upcoming spring events and look back on the evolution of the farm.
Newhall Fields Community Farm events page:
https://newhallfieldscommunityfarm.org/events/
Volunteer at Newhall Fields Community Farm:
https://newhallfieldscommunityfarm.org/volunteer/
S2 Ep6: Spotlight on the Volunteers
Season 2 · Episode 3
Friday, May 9, 2025 • Duration 15:10
Day and CJ breakdown the volunteer program at the farm.
Newhall Fields Community Farm events page:
https://newhallfieldscommunityfarm.org/events/
Volunteer at Newhall Fields Community Farm:
https://newhallfieldscommunityfarm.org/volunteer/
S2_Ep5: with Rebecca Ingalls
Season 2 · Episode 5
Friday, May 2, 2025 • Duration 18:03
CJ and Day interview farm co-founder and expert herbalist Rebecca Ingalls.
S2 Ep4: with Jeannette Mcginn
Season 2 · Episode 4
Friday, April 25, 2025 • Duration 25:01
Day and CJ are joined by farm director Jeannette to talk about the history and future of the community farm.
S2 E3: Northeast ARC x Newhall Fields
Saturday, April 19, 2025 • Duration 17:59
Myrna Solorio and Noah Leavitt of Northeast ARC Join Day and CJ to talk about the many highs of the collaborations between the two non-profits.
S2_Ep2: Advice for Home Gardeners
Season 2 · Episode 2
Thursday, April 10, 2025 • Duration 22:17
Daybar pitches the internets' most frequently asked questions about home gardening to our resident expert CJ.
S2_Ep1: Catch Up with Farm Manager CJ
Season 2 · Episode 1
Friday, April 4, 2025 • Duration 16:16
Welcome back to The Cultivator! In this first episode of the season, Day and CJ recap the 2024 harvest and what to look forward to in 2025.