Food Day is a nationwide grassroots campaign for healthy, affordable, and sustainably produced food that has served as a jumping off place for many around our state to celebrate and educate their community with regards to our local food system. MA organizers have reached out to me to ask if Food Day is still being celebrated and […]
Join Dan Kaplan, Farm Manager of Brookfield Farm in Amherst, MA for an overview of the financial management of a diversified farm. Brookfield has been managing a 500-share CSA since 1994 when they started with 10 acres of leased land, not much debt, and not much money. The business has steadily grown into a sustainable […]
Join the Amherst Survival Center for a community conversation with author Leanne Brown, WRSI's Monte Belmonte, and Congressman Jim McGovern about the fight to end hunger in our community. Co-sponsored with UMass School of Public Policy and The Food Bank of Western Mass. This event is free and is part of the Amherst Survival Center’s celebration of its […]
Join River Valley Coop at the Academy of Music in downtown Northampton for a showing of Food for Change, the story of cooperative in America. Enjoy a pre-show concert with Peter Blanchette and Kenny Butler, and meet local filmmaker Steve Alves after the show. Presented by River Valley Co-op and co-sponsored by Cabot Cooperative. Admission: $7.50; […]
Join Valley Co-operators for a special #CoopMonth screening of this new Visionaries / PBS documentary, highlighting the power of co-ops both here in the U.S. and around the world. This 1 hour documentary follows the work of the National Cooperative Business Association CLUSA International, celebrating 100 years of co-ops building a better world through co-op […]
Come on out for one of our last Volunteer Impact Days! We've got a lot going on at our Walnut St. Farm and would love more volunteers to come out and dig in with us! We'll be working on winter-proofing our new greenhouse and starting to put our vegetable beds to sleep.
Our two-hour Saturday afternoon Pork Fabrication Class is an interactive demonstration with Terry. He will break one side of a locally raised pig, field all of your questions, identify and discuss the attributes of each cut of meat and give pointers on how to best prepare them. In addition to instruction on seam butchery technique […]
Are you DYING to party this Halloween? Have a fright to remember at ZOMBIE PROM at the Blue Heron.
Join us for a lively evening of great music, great food and festivities! Come dressed in costume to win prizes – including Zombie Prom King and Queen!
Enjoy DJ & dancing, costume contest with prizes, full buffet dinner, and cash bar.