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.
More than 350 farms have completed this course for existing Massachusetts agricultural businesses that will benefit from an organized look at their current operation in order to plan for growth and change. You must have at least two years of documented farm production and income as a for-profit or non-profit farming enterprise to take this […]
Regulations created under the FDA’s Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA) begin implementation in September, 2016. FSMA requires that facilities conducting food-related activities, including commercial food processing, must have in place a Food Safety Plan prepared and overseen by a “Preventive Controls Qualified Individual” (PCQI) who has successfully completed training in the development and application of […]