Who can buy healthy fresh vegetables in our region and who can't? Why and why not? How has institutional racism shaped access to healthy food in our region and beyond? […]

March is Maple Month in Massachusetts! Maple syrup is great for cooking and baking, as restaurants around the state will demonstrate when they highlight menu items featuring maple syrup during […]

This annual, day-long training and networking event provides land trust board members and staff, parks administrators and advocates, colleagues from federal, state and local government agencies, students, and philanthropists an opportunity to participate in a full day of workshops and discussions that focus on fostering healthy communities in MA through land conservation.

Play a Local Board Game with Gabor Lukacs: Growing Resilient/Growing Resilience.  Learn about building community and increasing your resilience by playing a board game designed right here in Amherst. During the course of […]

Explores strategies for extending growing seasons into the fall and winter. Includes such topics as: hoophouses, coldframes, raised beds, mulch, managing seasonal crops, frost proofing, cold hardy crops, early spring […]

Heard the word permaculture? Not sure what it is? In this workshop I show photos, tell stories, and share my experience of gardening for 10+ years. I share my approach […]

The Heath Agricultural Society invites you to the second Cellars & Cave Tour taking place the fourth Saturday in March (3/28/15). If you have an interest in learning more about […]

We are very sad to announce that this year's Easter Egg Hunt and activities are being cancelled. This is due to the fact that there are multiple identifications of Highly […]