WRSI- Atlas Farm
Valley Bounty: Compost
Mike Mahar has been making compost since he was a kid. “I grew up around it,” he explained during a recent conversation.
Mahar was raised on[...]
CISA raising money to support local farms during pandemic
Coronavirus Hits Western Massachusetts Farm Economy
WAMC, March 26, 2020, By Paul Tuthill
The coronavirus pandemic has impacted agriculture.
Farms have lost big customers as restaurants, colleges, and winter farmers’ markets have closed.
In[...]
CISA offers local farmers no-interest loans
The Greenfield Recorder, March 26, 2020, By ANITA FRITZ, Staff Writer
SOUTH DEERFIELD — The nonprofit whose strategic plan for more than[...]
Columnist Philip Korman: Incentive program keeps us all fed
Daily Hampshire Gazette, March 25, 2020
Right now the entire world is focused on the spread of COVID-19. Aside from the threat to human life, the[...]
Coronavirus response: Emergency fund aims to raise $50,000 for struggling farms
A fund offering zero-interest loans to farmers is looking for a boost in[...]
WRSI: Pomeroy Dairy
Valley Bounty: Plant Starts
It feels like the COVID-19 pandemic has brought the world to a grinding halt. But nature is oblivious to national emergencies.
Nowhere is that more apparent[...]
WRSI: CISA and COVID-19
Coronavirus in Massachusetts: Maple producers, sugar shacks were having successful year before COVID-19
Maple producers got an early start this year, with trees being tapped in January.
