NPR segment on food prices
https://www.nhpr.org/2026-04-22/on-earth-day-how-to-eat-well-for-your-health-and-the-planet-on-a-budget Excerpt: Claire Morenon from the Community for Sustaining Agriculture (CISA) nonprofit in Deerfield, Massachusetts said farmers in New England are experiencing more unpredictable weather[...]
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VB: Justamere Tree Farm
Deb Rocque, Kim Trust and Kelly Auer met in Alaska. Rocque and Trust worked in conservation for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, and Auer[...]
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VB: Valley Spud
Colin Szawlowski is a fifth-generation potato farmer from the Szawlowski potato family that has farmed the valley soil for over 100 years in Hatfield and[...]
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Valley Bounty: Good Bunch Farm
“It’s usually around April 20th when I plant things in the field that can handle light frost,” says farmer Dan Greene of Good Bunch[...]
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NEPM: MA Sheep & Woolcraft Fair…and Walking Cloud Farm!
🐑 Claire takes Monte and Kaliis out to visit Marti Ferguson and her herd of Finnsheep at Walking Cloud Farm in Buckland, where they also[...]
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NEPM: Amherst Nurseries
. On a very muddy day, Jennifer brings Monte and Kaliis out to Hadley to see where Amherst Nurseries grows many of the trees and[...]
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NEPM: Quabbin Harvest and Marty’s Local
🥕 In Massachusetts, about 10% of locally grown food is sold straight from farmer to eater. How does the other 90% get from farm to[...]
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Valley Bounty: Free Living Farm
“Being outside, providing for yourself, providing for your community – and the health changes I saw in myself, eating fresh food from the land –[...]
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NEPM: Natural Roots
🌱 Claire takes Monte and Kaliis out to Natural Roots in Conway, a CSA farm and recipient of a Local Hero Award from CISA in[...]
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NEPM: Barberic Farm
🐑 Jacob takes Monte and Kaliis to visit BABY LAMBS with Barbara Goodchild, one half (with her husband Eric) of Barberic Farm in Shelburne. They[...]
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Valley Bounty: Lemon Bakery
Published in the Daily Hampshire Gazette 4/5/25 Named for sunny citrus fruit grown far from the valley, Lemon Bakery in Amherst mixes the sweet with[...]
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Valley Bounty: Little Brook Farm
Spring is here, and with it are signs of new life on farms around the Valley. Leaves are beginning to bud on fruit trees,[...]
