Local Hero Profile: Bloom Woolen Yarns
Local Hero Profile by Julia Mazzuchi, Local Hero Program Assistant The buy local movement in the Valley not only encompasses eating local, but also wearing[...]
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Local Hero Profile: Artifact Cider Project
Artifact Cider Project is a quickly growing craft cidery producing hard ciders that are available in hundreds of retail outlets across the state. Now, five[...]
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Local Hero Profile: Jay’s Wicked Gourmet Sauces
Shannon Green found out that her husband Jason was a sauce fanatic early on in their relationship. On a recent morning, sitting in front of[...]
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Local Hero Profile: Crooked Stick Pops
Julie Tuman remembers a young customer approaching her pop stand with a determined look on her face. “I don’t think she was old enough to[...]
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Local Hero Profile: Relish the Harvest
Relish the Harvest, a Chicopee-based specialty food producer founded by Jessica Wisniewski in 2010, began with a Wisniewski family staple: sweet zucchini relish. During the[...]
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Local Hero Profile: Hosta Hill
Hosta Hill, producer of kimchi, krauts, and krautonics, received this year its second consecutive Good Food Award. Field-to-ferment experts and Hosta Hill co-founders Maddie Elling[...]
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Local Hero Profile: Artisan Beverage Cooperative
The smell of freshly brewed tea fills the room—kombucha is on the production schedule today for Artisan Beverage Cooperative in Greenfield, and as General Manager[...]
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Profile: Maple Valley Creamery
Do you know what makes Maple Valley Ice Cream so irresistible? It’s not just the local cream, milk, & pure cane sugar. It’s also a[...]
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2015 Local Hero Awardee: Appalachian Naturals
With a motto of “Local agriculture is everyone’s business,” Kristin Barry and Shelly Risinger of Appalachian Naturals have built a thriving local company[...]
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Local Hero Profile: Forest Products Associates
Sue Fiske, multigenerational owner of Forest Products Associates, likes to keep it simple. Of what they produce on their farm, Sue says, “It’s pretty[...]
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Real Pickles: Financing Case Study
Community Investment in the Local Food System How a small local food business in western Massachusetts preserved its social mission through transitioning to a worker-owned[...]
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Hardwick Vineyard & Winery
By Jenny Miller Sechler Published in the CISA November 2013 ENewsletter Ten years ago, it would not be easy to spend a leisurely weekend afternoon in[...]
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