This month we feature the team behind Hawk & Handsaw Herbals as our Local Food Champion. Hawk & Handsaw Herbals is the glorious lovechild born of the energy, vision, and labor of Kidder Gowen, Horus Khuit, and Kelsey Gowen, who together lease a parcel of land from ACT on a farm owned by the Aquidneck Land Trust. Opened in early 2018, the Hawk and Handsaw team have turned their quarter acre of rich earth into a lush and increasingly productive corner of the farm where they grow medicinal and specialty culinary herbs using the organic, no-till methods of the expanding regenerative agricultural movement to build soil health, biodiversity and the future of our ecosystem. Hawk & Handsaw’s CSA program (Community Supported Agriculture) offers shares of a selection of veggies including salad greens, a range of brassicas and root crops, and their unique selection of fresh herbs.