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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Climate Change Hits Home: Adapting Together with Stonebrige Farm and Keshtyar Seed
Published September 7, 2024 in the Daily Hampshire Gazette. Climate Change at Home: Adapting Together Local support and federal funding help farms respond to climate[...]
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NEPM: Fern Valley Farms
This week on NEPM, CISA’s Communication Manager, Claire Morenon, launches her debut alongside Monte and Kaliis. This week, they spoke with Brooke Fernandes, of Fern[...]
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Valley Bounty: Roundhill Orchards
"I know people that won't even touch yellow tomatoes,” says Kate Miller Carl, the matriarch of Roundhill Orchards in Southampton. “To me, if there's something[...]
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NEPM: Farewell to Phil (with Reed Farm, Warner Farm, and Congressman McGovern)
A surprise parting gift: Monte and Kaliis did a whole show on how local agriculture has evolved in Phil’s 16 years at CISA! Intro and[...]
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Valley Bounty: Sunset Farm
Sunset Farm Grows Vegetables, Flowers, and Community Sunset Farm in Amherst is a neighborhood farm that emphasizes the social aspects of farming in community. Owners[...]
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