Photos | Joseph Shaw
The Somali Bantu Community Association and Liberation Farm staff and community members are all feeling deep joy as the new growing season begins for their first year in their permanent farm home in Wales, Maine. Community members are enjoying the freedom of exploring the land on warm and sunny spring days. Work has begun to choose cover crops and soil amendments for improving the hayfields.These photos provide hints of a new growing season in a new farm home! Come visit!
Andullahi Yarow (“JJ”), the farm’s recently hired property manager, is hard at work creating a successful future for the farm 
Liberation Farms had a workday to build tables for sorting and drying corn. Volunteers from Maine Grain Alliance and the SBCA community helped build 35-40 tables under the guidance of Mark Fulford, farm technical advisor and designer of the prototype.
photo Lana Dracup, farm manager
Ali Hamsa 
The construction of high tunnels is underway 
The goats have settled in 