Local Hero Profile: Oliver’s Farmstand
Local Hero Profile by Krystal Bagnaschi, CISA Intern Published in CISA’s January 2021 enewsletter “Our philosophy is simple. It’s to provide the best quality products[...]
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Local Hero Profile: The Old Creamery Co-op
In 1866, a group of dairy farmers banded together to establish a cooperative creamery in Cummington. For decades, farmers and families from throughout the Hilltowns[...]
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Local Hero Profile: Foster’s Supermarket
By Jack Gardner, CISA Intern Published in CISA’s January 2018 E-Newsletter – Sign Up Here! The proliferation of “big box” stores and chain supermarkets over the[...]
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Local Hero Profile: Atkins Farms
Although I don’t make it over there too often, Atkins Farms is one of my favorite stores in the Valley. To me, it offers the[...]
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2015 Local Hero Awardee: Randall’s Farm
As suburban housing replaced the farm fields of her youth in Hampden County, Karen Randall steered Randall’s Farm and Greenhouse through multiple transitions,[...]
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Local Hero Profile: Franklin Community Co-Op
“There are more people globally that are members of co-ops than that work for corporations,” says Suzette Snow-Cobb.
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River Valley Market
In a world where most of our investment money goes to Wall Street, food co-ops like River Valley Market continue to foster a thriving system[...]
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Valley Green Feast
“Creativity and sense of self are really valued in a cooperative. I really just think it’s going to change the world!”
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The Old Creamery
The Old Creamery is all about community – and, now on the verge of becoming a community-owned cooperative, is about to become even more locally-rooted.
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