NEPM: Little Light Farm
🌱 🌸 Claire, Kaliis, and Monte talk with Emmy Smela, founder of the newly-minted Little Light Farm in Amherst about: Their pick-your-own flower and veggie[...]
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“Attack on Small Farms”: Valley Farmers Gather to Protest USDA Cuts
3/23/25 Farmer Press Release Clad in muck boots and dirt-flecked Carhartts and arriving on tractors and leading goats, over 300 farmers, farmworkers, and their family[...]
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Gazette: Irate Valley farmers sound off over ag cuts at ‘Attack on Small Farms’ rally
Published in the Daily Hampshire Gazette: 03-24-2025 4:49 PM Modified: 03-24-2025 5:42 PM by Samuel Gelinas HADLEY — Irate farmers, waving signs and pitchforks, gathered[...]
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Republican: WMass farmers protest federal funding cuts they say jeopardize food supplies
Farmers and their allies crowded the lawn of the Hadley Town Hall Sunday afternoon, backed by a line of farm machinery decked[...]
CommonWealth Beacon: ‘Cut hay, not USDA’: Mass. farmers rally in Hadley against agriculture program cuts
Western Mass News: Hadley Farmer Rally for USDA
“Congressman Jim McGovern joined local farmers at a rally in Hadley on Sunday to oppose President Trump’s federal cuts.” See the short news clip here.
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NEPM: Gardener’s Supply in Hadley
🌸 Kaliis, Monte, and Jacob visit Gardener’s Supply in Hadley to talk with manager Eric Tiedeman-Mau about: This well-known garden center on Rt 9, which[...]
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Recorder: MDAR commissioner pens letter to USDA over uncertain funding and impact on farmers
Published: 03-14-2025 4:59 PM By Chris Larabee, Staff Writer BOSTON — As farmers prepare to head out to the fields for the season, Massachusetts Department[...]
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NEPM: Sawmill Herb Farm
🌱 Claire, Monte, and Kaliis talk with Susan Pincus of Sawmill Herb Farm in Montague about: How her fascination with culinary and medicinal herbs lead[...]
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Valley Bounty: Greenfield Winter Farmers’ Market
“When people think of farms, they tend to think of the summer, abundance, corn fields, and flowers. What people don’t realize is that farms function[...]
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NEPM: Shattuck’s Sugarhouse
“We all have to be stewards of the forest in order to benefit from the trees,” says Nick Shattuck of Shattuck’s Sugarhouse in Belchertown. The[...]
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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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