Valley Bounty: Celebrating Farm to School Month with Home Grown Springfield
As National Farm to School Month unfolds during October, the Connecticut River Valley perfectly displays this idea in action. Nationally observed since 2010, the month[...]
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Valley Bounty: Blue Crow Botanicals
Sometimes, medicine comes from a pill bottle. Other times, it grows right in your backyard, if only you knew how to access it.
Blending modern chemistry[...]
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NEPM: McCray’s (Fear on the) Farm
Jacob takes Monte and Kaliis to McCray’s Farm in South Hadley for a conversation with Barbara Cote and Mandy Carol from McCray’s Creamery and Dan[...]
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Valley Bounty: Rustic Outlook
When Heather McCann founded her farm, Rustic Outlook, in 2020, she picked a niche that few local farmers have chosen. She decided to make[...]
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NEPM: Ben & Meg’s Farm & Garden Store
– Ben and Meg’s Farm and Garden Store is new in South Hadley, and they have what you need for decorating your front porch or[...]
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NEPM: Preservation Orchard & Farm
_ Claire takes Monte and Kaliis to meet Ava Blum-Carr of Preservation Orchard and Farm and her mom, Nicole Blum of Carr’s Ciderhouse, to talk[...]
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Valley Bounty: Creativity and Community Bear Fruit at Apex Orchards
School is back in session, with the emblematic apple in season at local orchards. The Shelburne Falls orchard grows fruit for sale at their farm[...]
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Climate Change Hits Home: Not all Farmworkers Feel the Heat Equally
Published September 21, 2024 in the Daily Hampshire Gazette Farm risks rise with heat By Jacob Nelson Imagine this: It’s 10 a.m. and already near[...]
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NEPM: Climate Chief Hoffer visits Big River Chestnuts
. Climate Chief Melissa Hoffer from Governor Healy’s cabinet came to tour farms and talk about how farming can play a bigger role in the[...]
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Recorder: State climate chief hears from area farmers on putting climate-resilient methods into practice
The state’s first-ever climate chief toured Atlas Farm in Deerfield and Big River Chestnuts in Sunderland alongside legislators, Massachusetts Department of Agricultural Resources officials and[...]
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Climate Change Hits Home: Hampshire College Farm’s Grassroots Research and Resilience
As college and university farms go, Hampshire College Farm is not a big one. What they do have in abundance is student energy, and[...]
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NEPM: Climate Week and UMass Dining
🌎 Stephen Taranto, CISA’s climate program manager, and Kathy Wicks, director of sustainability for UMass Amherst Dining and Auxiliary Services, join Monte and Kaliis to[...]
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