Sauces, pickles and jams...Exploring contract production to add value to your fruit and vegetables! CommonWealth Kitchen, a licensed commercial kitchen in Boston, can make value-added products for you from your excess farm produce or seconds, to be sold at farmers markets, farmstands, retail stores or foodservice customers including colleges. Come learn what we offer and […]
Around the country, local food is picking up steam. As consumers, restaurants, grocery stores and schools buy more and more product, farmers need clear information on their obligations and expectations. In this tutorial, learn how to build a strong relationship with your buyers to ensure that they become life-long customers and advocates of your farm. […]
These meetings will give winter workshop participants the opportunity to network with one another and also provide additional time to discuss and consider their own individual farm needs as it relates to the workshop topics. Each session will have a CISA staff facilitator and a farmer expert (Missy Bahret–Old Friends Farm, Pete Solis– Hampshire College Farm, and Gary Gemme– Harvest Farm of Whately). The topics for the meeting will be determined based on participant interest and determined as the class date gets closer.
The New Salem Agricultural Commission begins its 2016 educational workshop series with a viewing of the film Root Hot or Die on February 18th at 6:30 pm at the New Salem Library. The presentation will be followed by a discussion with the filmmaker Rawn Fulton. About the Film: From early Colonial times, the rural hilltowns […]
Email Michael Madole or call (413) 628-4485 ext. 4 to register
Benneth Phelps from The Carrot Project will provide farmers with applicable and effective financial management tools that can be used to make business decisions during this seventh workshop in the series. These tools can be easily used by farmers to implement into farm business operations, to improve productivity, reduce costs, increase net farm income, and improve overall quality of life. This class will use real-world experience of farmers and their service providers to describe farm operation experiences, provide insight into what has worked, what hasn’t, and why. The class will also review the concept of benchmarking, both against your own farm and against others.
The Springfield Food Policy Council will host a series of workshops focused on community gardens and gardening. This one will focus on community garden organizing a finding a suitable site for your garden. For more information and to register, contact: Anna Muhammad - 413-214-1237.
The second installment of the free webinar series offered by NOFA/Mass is happening Tuesday February, 23 at 7:00pm with Tevis Roberston-Goldberg of Crabapple Farm in Chesterfield, MA. Tevis will go through the benefits of having a beef herd on his diversified farm and give management tips for balancing the management and labor demands of the animal and vegetable […]