Interview: Mountain Orchard
WRSI, October 12, 2018. Chris Teter of Mountain Orchard, a three-generation women-run farm in Granville, talks about receiving a loan through CISA's Emergency Farm Fund[...]
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Farmland matchmaking
The Recorder, October 9, 2018, by Richie Davis. Sweetwater Farm in Petersham traces its roots back nearly 270 years to Sylvanus Howe, whose fields fed[...]
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Interview: Emergency Farm Fund
WHMP, October 8, 2018. WHMP's Bob Flaherty and CISA's Phil Korman talk about the difficult farming season we've had this year and the help CISA's[...]
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Interview: American Farmland Trust
WRSI, October 8, 2018. Nathan L’Etoile of the American Farmland Trust (and Four Star Farms in Northfield) joins Monte and Phil to discuss how the[...]
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HIP to shut off benefits before Thanksgiving
The Daily Hampshire Gazette,October 4, 2018, by Richie Davis. The state plans to temporarily shut off Healthy Incentives Program benefits just before Thanksgiving to extend[...]
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Fighting mile-a-minute vine, organically
The Recorder, October 4, 2018, by Sarah Robertson. To fight the invasive mile-a-minute vine on a Montague farm, state officials released weevils, tiny insects that[...]
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CISA reopening emergency fund to help farmers affected by bad weather
The Recorder, October 4, 2018, by Richie Davis. Tuesday’s rains were already adding to the season’s overabundance of rainfall as Community Involved in Sustaining Agriculture[...]
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Interview: Field Notes and Malinowski Farms
WRSI, October 2, 2018. CISA Program Coordinator Noah Baustin and Ed Malinowski of Malinowski Farms talk about some of the fun and fascinating stories that[...]
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Financial Help Available To Rain-Soaked Western Mass. Farms
WAMC, October 2, 2018, by Paul Tuthill. A nonprofit organization is making emergency loans available to farmers in part of western Massachusetts who suffered losses[...]
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USMCA trade agreement expected to help U.S. dairy farmers
WWLP, October 1, 2018, by Mike Masciadrelli. 2018 has been a tough year for dairy farmers in the U.S. An increase in milk production combined[...]
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Local loan fund helps area food firms just in time
The Recorder, September 29, 2018, by Richie Davis. Sometimes, it’s not “how much” money that matters, but the timing. When Kristen Barry and Shelly Risinger[...]
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UMass scientists partner with Real Pickles
The Recorder, September 27, 2018.
University of Massachusetts food scientists have mapped and characterized microbe populations at Greenfield’s Real Pickles factory as part of a study that[...]