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SUMMARY:Family-friendly activities on your farm
DESCRIPTION:Register Here! \nJoin CISA for a farm tour and workshop about how to make your farm a destination for families and school groups. Cheryl Fletcher of Fletcher Farm will talk about the festivals and field trips that bring families to their farm and farm store. We’ll tour the hay playground\, hayrides\, and pick-your own fields where they host hundreds of students on school field trips. University of Vermont Extension Agritourism Specialist Lisa Chase will lead a discussion about activities\, promotion strategies\, liability\, and safety considerations. Whether your farm has been hosting school groups and families for years or you are thinking about getting started at any scale\, bring your questions and stories. \nThis event will be at Fletcher Farm in Southampton\, MA. Dinner will be provided. (And if it’s easier for you to attend if your kids tag along\, we’ll feed them too!) Please register by Monday\, September 8th. \nContact Jim Simon at jim@buylocalfood.org with any questions. \nThis material is based upon work supported by USDA/NIFA under Award Number 2023-70027-40447.
URL:https://www.buylocalfood.org/event/family-friendly-activities-on-your-farm/
LOCATION:Fletcher Farm\, 17 Gunn Rd\, Southampton\, MA\, United States
CATEGORIES:CISA Events,Farmer Events,CISA Workshops for Businesses
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250913T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250913T130000
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SUMMARY:NOFA-MA: Intuitive Approaches to Agroforestry
DESCRIPTION:Planting and designing an agroforestry-based farm is both a science and an art. It’s easy to get stuck in your head when approaching a site\, and mulling over choices\, such as whether to leave a section of land for pollinators\, or how to select the most suitable trees for sun exposure and soil type.  Whether you’re a farmer who has dreams of productive and diversified plantings\, or a designer who wants to meet their clients’ needs while retaining ecological integrity\, this workshop is designed for you. Practice tapping into the intuitive side of establishing a landscape\, connecting with not only the history and logical design elements\, but the spirit and restoration of the land. \nFor more information and to register: https://www.nofamass.org/event/intuitive-approaches-to-agroforestry/
URL:https://www.buylocalfood.org/event/nofa-ma-intuitive-approaches-to-agroforestry/
CATEGORIES:Farmer Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250913T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250913T153000
DTSTAMP:20260505T224902
CREATED:20250731T143232Z
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UID:50380-1757768400-1757777400@www.buylocalfood.org
SUMMARY:NOFA-NH: Managing soil fertility
DESCRIPTION:Date: Saturday\, September 13\nTime: 1:00–3:30 PM\nCost: $25 for NOFA-NH Members / $35 Nonmembers\nLimited to 15 participants\nRegistration and more info: nofanh.org/picadillyintensive
URL:https://www.buylocalfood.org/event/nofa-nh-managing-soil-fertility/
LOCATION:Picadilly Farm\, Winchester NH
CATEGORIES:Farmer Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250918T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250918T180000
DTSTAMP:20260505T224902
CREATED:20250909T124448Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250909T124703Z
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SUMMARY:Cut Flower Twilight Meeting at Full Well Farm
DESCRIPTION:Join us in the Berkshires! Farmer Laura Tupper will lead a farm tour with a focus on cut flower production. She will also discuss the paper pot transplanter that she uses to grow sunflowers. Extension Educator Hannah Whitehead will talk about a UMass project to track labor and costs associated with sunflower production. And UMass summer intern Athena Vasilopoulos will share her insect collection and talk about scouting for beneficial and pest insects. A light dinner will be provided. This event is free\, but please register in advance. Click here for more information and to register. Contact’s Hannah Whitehead at  hwhitehead@umass.edu with any questions.
URL:https://www.buylocalfood.org/event/cut-flower-twilight-meeting-at-full-well-farm/
LOCATION:Full Well Farm\, 313 East Road\, Adams\, MA
CATEGORIES:Farmer Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250918T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250918T190000
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SUMMARY:Dave’s Natural Garden: Farm Walk & Farmer Networking Event
DESCRIPTION:Register here! \nJoin CISA and farmers Meghan Hastings and Dave Kaskeski for a farm walk at Dave’s Natural Garden in Granby\, MA\, where a combined strategy of income stream diversification\, forward-thinking adaptations to climate change\, and a lot of hard work have led to a thriving farm business and neighborhood food hub.  \nThe event starts with a walk around the farm to have a look at and discuss the different components of the business including a farm store\, CSA\, seasonal flower and vegetable starts\, eggs\, and others. As we go\, we will also have a look at innovative practices used by the farmers to adapt to increasing weather variability such as no-till soil management\, indoor growing\, growing more food on less land\, and greenhouse production in bulb crates.  \nAfter the farm walk CISA will host a casual networking event with dinner where participants can talk further with Meghan and Dave as well as learn about some of the support CISA offers to area farm and food businesses. Members of CISA’s technical assistance team will be available to discuss farm business support programs.  \n\nDate: Thursday\, September 18\, 5-7pm\nLocation: Dave’s Natural Garden\, 35 Amherst St\, Granby MA 01033 (Directions: Dave’s Natural Garden)\n\nContact Stephen at stephen@buylocalfood.org with questions.
URL:https://www.buylocalfood.org/event/daves-natural-garden-farm-walk-farmer-networking-event/
LOCATION:Dave’s Natural Garden\, 35 Amherst St\, Granby\, MA\, 01033
CATEGORIES:Climate Events,CISA Events,Farmer Events,CISA Workshops for Businesses
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250920T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250920T220000
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CREATED:20250909T202402Z
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SUMMARY:Just Roots Hootenanny
DESCRIPTION:Join us at Just Roots Farm (34 Glenbrook Drive in Greenfield) as we celebrate our community and the local harvest in our newly renovated historic barn! Dance the night away with local Cajun two-step band\, Les Taiauts\, enjoy snacks and beverages provided by local businesses\, and bid in a silent auction featuring donated local gifts and services. No need to be a two-step expert–all experience levels are encouraged to kick up your heels! We’ll start the dancing with a two-step lesson to go over the basics. \nEvery ticket includes one complimentary drink! We’ll also have complimentary snacks to nibble on and Hearthstone Artisan Bakery wood-fired pizzas! \nTickets at bit.ly/jrhoot. $30 in advance / $35 at the door \nAll proceeds raised from the event will support our ongoing work to provide affordable farm shares and nutrition support for households experiencing food insecurity right here in Franklin County as well as across the state.
URL:https://www.buylocalfood.org/event/just-roots-hootenanny/
LOCATION:Just Roots Farm\, 34 Glenbrook Drive\, Greenfield\, MA\, 01301\, United States
CATEGORIES:Farmer Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250922T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250922T130000
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SUMMARY:Climate Anxiety: Navigating Uncertainty & Building Resilience
DESCRIPTION:Register here! \nMany people are suffering from emotional consequences associated with anticipated or actual environmental changes and reacting with despair\, grief\, or uncertainty. Farmers\, ranchers\, and food producers have uniquely intimate relationships to places and landscapes\, and as a result\, are especially vulnerable to climate-related anxiety. \nBerkshire Agricultural Ventures will host this introductory session with Maud Powell on the notion of climate anxiety and eco-distress. Participants will be encouraged to explore specific things they have lost to climate change\, and identify and share with each other healthy strategies they are currently using to cope with climate-related stress. \n\nDate: Monday\, September 22\, 10am-1pm\nLocation: 2715 US-44\, Millbrook\, NY 12545\n\nContact Ben at Berkshire Ag Ventures with questions. \nThis event is designed for farmers and land stewards in the Berkshire-Taconic and Hudson Valley region. Another session of the training will be offered in Sunderland\, Massachusetts on September 23. Click here for details. \nSpeaker: Maud Powell\, Oregon State University  \nMaud Powell is a Professor of Practice in the Small Farms Extension program at Oregon State University and serves as Oregon’s co-coordinator for the Western SARE’s professional development program. For the past seventeen years\, she has designed and delivered educational programs for farmers and ranchers in Southern Oregon. Additionally\, she and her family have owned and operated a vegetable seed and produce farm\, Wolf Gulch\, for twenty-five years.  \nThis event is part of Climate Change and Farming Week 2025. Click here for more information! 
URL:https://www.buylocalfood.org/event/climate-anxiety-navigating-uncertainty-building-resilience/
LOCATION:Cornell Cooperative Extension Dutchess County\, 2715 US-44\, Millbrook\, NY\, 12545
CATEGORIES:Climate Events,Farmer Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250923T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250923T190000
DTSTAMP:20260505T224902
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SUMMARY:Climate Stress and Grief: Building Understanding & Resilience
DESCRIPTION:Register here!  \nJoin CISA and University of New Hampshire Extension for an event exploring how farmers and others working in food systems are experiencing and coping with climate grief.  \nMany people are suffering from emotional consequences associated with anticipated or actual environmental changes and reacting with despair\, grief\, or uncertainty. Farmers\, ranchers\, and food producers have uniquely intimate relationships to places and landscapes\, and as a result\, are especially vulnerable to climate-related losses and grief.   \nThis session will offer an introduction to the notion of climate grief or eco-distress. Participants will be encouraged to explore specific things they have lost to climate change\, and identify and share with each other healthy strategies they are currently using to cope with climate-related stress.  \nLight dinner will be provided at the beginning of the event.  \n\nDate: Tuesday\, September 23rd\, 5-6:30pm \nLocation: Sunderland Public Library\, 20 School Street\, Sunderland\, Massachusetts 01375 \n\nThis event is aimed at farmers in Massachusetts\, and will be hosted in Sunderland\, MA. Another session of the training will be offered in Millbrook\, NY on September 22. Click here for details. \nSpeaker: Maud Powell\, Oregon State University  \nMaud Powell is a Professor of Practice in the Small Farms Extension program at Oregon State University and serves as Oregon’s co-coordinator for the Western SARE’s professional development program. For the past seventeen years\, she has designed and delivered educational programs for farmers and ranchers in Southern Oregon. Additionally\, she and her family have owned and operated a vegetable seed and produce farm\, Wolf Gulch\, for twenty-five years.  \nThis event is part of Climate Change and Farming Week 2025. Click here for more information!  \nContact Stephen at Stephen@buylocalfood.org with questions.  \nThis material is based upon work supported by USDA/NIFA and Northeast Extension Risk Management Education (NERME) under Award Number 2023-70027-40447 and Award Number 2024-70027-42540.
URL:https://www.buylocalfood.org/event/climate-stress-and-grief-building-understanding-resilience/
LOCATION:Sunderland Public Library\, 20 School Street\, Sunderland
CATEGORIES:Climate Events,CISA Events,Farmer Events,CISA Workshops for Businesses
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250925T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250925T180000
DTSTAMP:20260505T224902
CREATED:20250911T155806Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250912T141504Z
UID:50696-1758816000-1758823200@www.buylocalfood.org
SUMMARY:Setting Up for Success in a Changing Climate: Equipment and Weed Management in Reduced Tillage Systems
DESCRIPTION:Register here! \nWalk the vegetable fields of Hampshire College Farm to look closely at the various living cover trials with white Dutch clover. Engage in conversation with the Hampshire farmers and folks from Momentum Ag to better understand the trial process\, the learning goals and take always about tools\, weed management and more when working with reduced tillage systems in a changing climate. This will be a tour with plenty of time for questions and conversation! \n\nDate: Thursday\, September 25th\, 4-6pm\nLocation: Hampshire College Farm\, 731 West Street\, Amherst MA 01002\n\nAccessibility: Please let us know if you require any assistance\, we will be walking on farms roads with uneven terrain for periods of up to 15 minutes and be outside in the elements. \nThis event is part of Climate Change and Farming Week 2025. Click here for more information! 
URL:https://www.buylocalfood.org/event/setting-reduced-tillage-systems-up-for-success-in-a-changing-climate-equipment-weed-management/
LOCATION:Hampshire College Farm\, 793 West Street\, Amherst\, MA 01002
CATEGORIES:Climate Events,Farmer Events
ORGANIZER;CN="Emily Landek":MAILTO:farm@hampshire.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250926T093000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250926T180000
DTSTAMP:20260505T224902
CREATED:20250731T133927Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250916T131952Z
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SUMMARY:Agroforestry Crawl: Three farms in one day!
DESCRIPTION:Register here! \nJoin CISA on Friday\, September 26th for an all-day Agroforestry Crawl visiting three innovative western MA farms with agroforestry systems on their land.  \nWe start out at The Long Game Orchard in Northfield\, a 6-acre silvopasture farm with tree crops including chestnuts\, American persimmons\, Asian pears\, Yellowbud hickory\, and pawpaws. The farm is also experimenting with fodder and biodiversity hedges and is transforming an adjacent secondary forest fragment into a silvopasture system. From there we travel to Firefly Farm in Sunderland\, a 25-acre no-till farm with perennial herbs\, a no-till veggie area and orchards of heartnuts\, hazelnuts and chestnuts. Finally\, we hit Carr’s Ciderhouse and Preservation Orchard in Hadley for a look at their apple orchards that are integrated with grazing flocks of sheep and chickens based on the farm and raised in collaboration with Meadowfed Lamb.  \nVisits to each farm include farm tours and conversations with the farmers and participants. Following the tour of Carr’s\, we will have some time to reflect on opportunities and challenges associated with implementing agroforestry systems on western MA farms and a networking session over pizza and cider.  \nThis event is oriented toward farmers and service providers\, but is open to members of the public interested in learning about agroforestry. \nDate: Friday\, September 26th\, 9:30am – 6pm (rain date Sept 27th) \nFarm Tour Locations:  \n\nThe Long Game Orchard\, Northfield\nFirefly Farm\, Sunderland\nPreservation Orchard\, Meadowfed Lamb and Carr’s Ciderhouse\, Hadley\n\nAgenda:  \n9:30am – Meet up at The Long Game Orchard \n10:00am – Begin farm tour   \n11:30am – BYO lunch break at The Long Game Orchard or elsewhere  \n1:00pm – Meet up at Firefly Farm\, begin farm tour   \n2:30pm – Depart for Preservation Orchard & Carr’s Ciderhouse/Meadowfed Lamb   \n3:00pm – Begin farm tour  \n4:00pm – Discussion on moving agroforestry systems forward – constraints and opportunities  \n5:00pm – Networking/cider/pizza at Carr’s \n6:00pm – End of event \nRegistration: Please register in advance. Although we encourage participants to attend all three farm tours\, you may select one or two tours to attend if you’re not able to commit to the full day. \nFood: CISA will provide some snacks but otherwise food will not be provided on the tour. Please bring your own lunch or plan to go out in between tours. Pizza and cider will be available to purchase at Carr’s Ciderhouse during the networking session at the end of the tour. \nTransportation: Please arrange your own transportation between tour locations. Participants are encouraged to coordinate their own rideshares to carpool between locations\, if possible. \nContact Stephen at stephen@buylocalfood.org with questions or to register. \nThis event is part of Climate Change and Farming Week 2025. Click here for more information! 
URL:https://www.buylocalfood.org/event/agroforestry-crawl/
LOCATION:The Long Game Orchard\, Firefly Farm\, Carr’s Ciderhouse and Orchard
CATEGORIES:Climate Events,CISA Events,Farmer Events,CISA Workshops for Businesses
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250926T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250926T170000
DTSTAMP:20260505T224902
CREATED:20250903T170907Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250908T093158Z
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SUMMARY:Agriculture and Conservation Education: On-Campus Resources and Food Security
DESCRIPTION:Greenfield Community College has a small but thriving agricultural education program that utilizes on-campus gardens to teach and grow op-produce for the GCC food pantry. Please join program coordinator\, Anthony Reiber and Farm and Food Systems student Michael Hannigan to tour the on-campus agriculture education resources and discuss the successes and challenges of the programs. \n\nDate: Friday\, September 26th\, 3:00-5:00pm\nLocation: Greenfield Community College\, 1 College Drive\, Greenfield\, MA 01301\n\nContact Anthony at Greenfield Community College with questions. \nThis event is part of Climate Change and Farming Week 2025. Click here for more information! 
URL:https://www.buylocalfood.org/event/agriculture-and-conservation-education-on-campus-resources-and-food-security/
LOCATION:Greenfield Community College\, 1 College Drive\, Greenfield\, MA\, 01301
CATEGORIES:Climate Events,Community Events,Farmer Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250927T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250927T130000
DTSTAMP:20260505T224902
CREATED:20250903T165600Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250908T093351Z
UID:50582-1758967200-1758978000@www.buylocalfood.org
SUMMARY:Building Fertile Ground: Biochar\, Soil Health\, and Agroforestry in Action
DESCRIPTION:Register Here \nCurious about biochar and how it supports soil health and climate resilience? Join us at Big River Chestnuts in South Deerfield to learn about the benefits of this carbon-rich soil amendment. We’ll discuss how biochar is made\, how it can enhance soil health and water retention\, and what to consider when using it on your farm. We will also discuss how to access funding and other forms of assistance through the Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS). \nThe Hampden-Hampshire Conservation District will demonstrate its newest addition to their equipment program – a Stoltzfus 4-ton multi-purpose spreader\, which will apply a custom blend of biochar and compost to Jono Neiger’s agroforestry system. This versatile tool is available through HHCD’s equipment rental program and can be used to apply a range of amendments that increase soil fertility and health\, and build long-term climate resiliency. Snacks and refreshments will be provided after the event. \n\nDate/time: Saturday\, September 27th\, 10 AM – 1 PM\nLocation: 44-98 Settright Rd\, South Deerfield\nRain date: Sunday\, September 28th\, 10 AM – 1 PM\nPresenters: Jono Neiger (Big River Chestnuts)\, Matthew Karas (HHCD)\n\nContact Matthew Karas at Hampshire-Hampden Conservation District with questions. \nThis event is part of Climate Change and Farming Week 2025. Click here for more information!  \n*HHCD’s Stoltzfus Wet-Lime Spreader was purchased with grant funding provided by the Massachusetts Executive Office of Energy and Environmental Affairs.  \n*The Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) provides funding for biochar and other soil amendments through the Environmental Quality Incentives Program (EQIP) 
URL:https://www.buylocalfood.org/event/building-fertile-ground-biochar-soil-health-and-agroforestry-in-action/
LOCATION:Big River Chestnuts\, 44-98 Settright Rd\, Deerfield\, MA\, 01373
CATEGORIES:Climate Events,Farmer Events
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