Recorder: State’s new ‘Farm-Pass’ program hopes to ease farm succession planning
By Chinanu Okoli and reprinted by Boston University News Service March 6, 2025 Applications are rolling in for the Massachusetts Department of Agricultural Resources’ new Farm[...]
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Gazette: Natural Resources Conservation Service office in Amherst for 45 years ID’d for closure
Published 3/5/25 in the Daily Hampshire Gazette By Scott Merzbach, staff writer AMHERST — The Natural Resources Conservation Service office for Massachusetts, located at 451[...]
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Valley Bounty: Stone Soup Farm
For local farmers, winter is a time for planning the next growing season, catching up on small business tasks, and maintaining structures and equipment. For[...]
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NEPM: Holyoke Winter Farmers’ Markets During Tumultuous Times
For the city of Holyoke, their winter farmer’s market is bringing fresh produce to those who need it most, amidst funding changes, shifts in leadership,[...]
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Gazette: Grave threats to local farmers, food
Published 02/25/25 in the Daily Hampshire Gazette Since Jan. 20, the Trump administration’s whirlwind of executive orders and administrative actions — and the flood of[...]
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Recorder: Trump spending freeze has Pioneer Valley farmers worried
Since the Trump administration took office, 78 USDA contracts, equaling $132 million, have been canceled...At least $7 million of those funds were set to[...]
Valley Bounty: Bear Hill Sugar Farm
Plenty of young kids tap a few maple trees, inspired by the sweet promise of maple syrup. Few become enamored with it to the point[...]
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NEPM: Headwater Cider
🍏 Peter Mitchell of Headwater Cider and (“almost Dr.”) Elizabeth Garofalo of UMass Extension give Claire, Monte, and Kaliis a peek at the winter wonderland[...]
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NEPM: Just Roots, and Field Notes!
❤️ Food is love. That is the ethos of Kyle Zegel‘s Field Notes story, and how he approaches his work at Just Roots, teaching kids[...]
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Valley Bounty: Smith College Dining, and Field Notes!
From Puerto Rico to Northampton, from popular steakhouses to college cafeterias, Jamil Asad-Ubinas, has helped run a lot of kitchens in his life. Today, he[...]
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NEPM: Momentum Ag, and Field Notes!
☘️ Lincoln Fishman is performing a story at Field Notes next Saturday, Feb 8 – a bit of an origin story for Momentum Ag, the[...]
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Congressman Jim McGovern and CISA: White House’s immigration policy’s impact on farm community
“A pause on federal grants and loans (and changes to immigration policy) could impact the farming community, so Western Mass News spoke with Massachusetts Congressman[...]
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