Greg Maslowe steps down as Farm Director at Newton Community Farm at the end of 2026. Most of what the public can buy from his last season will be gone well before that. The Saturday Newton Farmers' Market wraps up this Saturday, October 31. The farm stand in the red shed on Winchester Street sells its final vegetables on Saturday, November 21. If you have been buying turnips and kale from his fields since spring, the countdown is in weeks, not months.
That gap shapes the next month at 303 Nahanton Street in Oak Hill. The farm marks the end of a 20-year tenure in December, but its public selling season, the market and the farm stand, ends in November.
The Handoff Started in the Fields Long Ago
Maslowe has been at the farm for more than 20 years. In the farm's open house announcement, published by Fig City News, Newton Community Farm credits him with "beautiful and delicious food grown here in Newton" and with a "quiet, caring and wise presence on the Farm and at the Newton Farmers' Market." His notes in the farm newsletter ranged over farming, weather, cooking, climate and life in general. The farm held a free open house in the barn on Sunday, October 25, with cookies and warm cider, so neighbors could thank him.
The succession is already settled. The Newton Beacon reported in May that Andrea Egan had been named his successor and that Maslowe was busy training her. The Beacon also called him the founding farm manager. According to Fig City News, Egan had already taken over the farm manager role about a year before its June feature, with Maslowe moving up to director. The farm's team page still lists her as Farm Manager and him as Farm Director.
So the person behind the spinach at the stand this November has been running daily field operations for some time. What ends on December 31 is Maslowe's title. Walk-up sales end earlier, on the farm's own calendar. After that, the produce goes only to customers who ordered ahead.
In the Beacon piece, Maslowe described where each year really begins:
"Opening day for us is when we're putting in the seeds in the greenhouse."
That was spring 2026, his 20th season. The Beacon reported that about 30,000 plants were ready for the May 16 and 17 seedling sale. The cycle that started in those slot trays ends at the red shed on November 21.
Twenty Years Back to a Plan Drawn Before the First Season
The farm is spending this fall looking back as well as wrapping up. Its 2025 Annual Report and 2026 Business Plan set 2026 as a 20th-anniversary year, with special events and recognitions spread across the calendar. A June 11 anniversary dinner honored the original board and Maslowe.
The farm's history runs much further back. The Angino family bought the property in 1917 and farmed it for almost a century. The City of Newton bought the Angino farm in 2005, the nonprofit formed that same year, and it has operated the farm under a City license since its first season in 2006.
Two evening talks this fall go back to that founding. Tonight, Thursday, October 29, from 7 to 8 p.m., the farm hosts Island of Hope: a Master Plan for Newton Community Farm. The talk covers the master plan created by founding board member Ted Chapman. The farm says much of today's layout comes directly from that plan, and the evening looks at how the farm today "embodies, and at times departs from" it. The event page describes the plan's roots in biointensive agriculture and permaculture.
On Tuesday, November 10, also 7 to 8 p.m., founding board president Jon Regosin leads Putting the 'Community' in Community Farms. The talk asks who the community is and whom a community farm serves. Its listing looks back at the groups that came together "20-plus years ago" to create the farm.
Both talks come in the same weeks as Maslowe's final harvest. One generation of the farm is explaining its founding plan just as the person who carried out that plan steps away.
The Countdown From Here
From publication day forward, here is how the farm's season closes:
- Thursday, October 29, 7 p.m. The Island of Hope master plan talk at the farm, 303 Nahanton Street.
- Saturday, October 31, 9:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. The last Saturday Newton Farmers' Market of 2026, in the Newton North High School parking lot at 352 Lowell Avenue. Newton Community Farm sells there, and Halloween morning is the market's final session. The Tuesday market at Cold Spring Park closed for the year on October 27.
- Tuesday, November 10, 7 p.m. Jon Regosin's talk at the farm.
- Friday, November 13. Orders close for Thanksgiving Harvest Bags.
- Saturday, November 21, 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. The farm stand's final day of the season. The same morning, Newton Parks & Recreation lists a Holiday Harvest Market from 9:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. at Cold Spring Park, 1189 Beacon Street, on its farmer and vendor registration page. That listing does not say which farms will attend.
- Monday, November 23, 3 to 5 p.m. Harvest Bag pickup at the farm.
Some dates on that list end things for good. After October 31, the only public place to buy the farm's produce is the shed on Winchester Street, open three days a week. After November 21, that closes too.
Fifty Bags and a Red Shed
What remains after this weekend is limited, and some of it is already gone.
The 2026 Late Fall CSA sold out. It runs from October 27 to December 8 with four pickups every other Tuesday, 3 to 6 p.m., at the farm, for $220. Only 50 shares were offered, open to current Friends of the Farm. The farm says the share brings plenty of spinach, kale, carrots and daikon from its own fields, plus potatoes and winter squash from partner farms. For those 50 households, the December 8 pickup is the closest any 2026 produce gets to Maslowe's last day.
Everyone else has two options. The first is the Thanksgiving Harvest Bag. It costs $92, orders close November 13, and pickup is November 23 on the lowest level of the big red barn. Unclaimed bags are donated. The farm's events listing says only 50 bags are available, which is the same cap as the CSA. The listed order deadline is November 13, but a 50-bag limit may run out before then.
The second is the farm stand. It is open Thursdays and Fridays from 2 to 6 p.m., closing at dusk as the days get shorter, and Saturdays from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Parking is on either side of Winchester Street. Sunset comes earlier each week this month, so the Thursday and Friday afternoon hours will likely run shorter than 6 p.m. Saturday mornings are the most dependable window. The farm also sells fruit, vegetables and eggs from local partner farms at the stand. It posts weather closures on its Instagram and Facebook pages.
What Andrea Egan Inherits
The fields don't sit idle when Maslowe leaves. By his account in the Beacon, the next season starts in the heated greenhouse before the ground thaws, and the fields are full by the third week of May. In 2027, Egan will be planning that cycle as successor rather than as second in command.
Her approach is already on record. In the Fig City News feature, Egan described a yearly habit of asking "What can we tweak slightly?" She pointed to collard greens, which came back after a long absence and stayed on the planting list. She also mentioned a test of a "weird looking" variety called Salt-and-Pepper Cucumbers. She told the outlet she wants more people to find the farm. "I don't want us to be a hidden gem," she said.
Until then, the last of Maslowe's 20th harvest is in the red shed on Winchester Street three days a week, through Saturday, November 21.
If you're in Oak Hill on a November Saturday, the farm stand is a good reason to get there before 1 p.m. Newton's calendar keeps changing, and we follow it closely at Orit Aviv. Whether you're settling into Newton or helping family who just arrived, we're glad to share the local details that make a new season here easier. Let's Connect.
