VB: Dan’s Veggies and Poplar Mountain Maple
Jacquie Boyden is co-owner of Dan’s Veggies and Poplar Mountain Maple in Erving, and she runs the business with her son, Daniel Boyden. The five-acre[...]
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VB: Gray Dog’s Farm
Gray Dog’s Farm in Huntington started because its founders, Ross and Alicia Hackerson, had a vision: “to create a farm where what we were doing[...]
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VB: Clark Brothers Orchards
Dana Clark is a fourth-generation farmer, who owns and operates Clark Brothers Orchards in Ashfield, along with his brothers, Aaron and Brian Clark. Dana’s children,[...]
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VB: Nettlepoint Farm
Syd St. John has been farming on and off since they were 16 years old. Starting in 2018 with growing microgreens and tomatoes in a[...]
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VB: Plum Brook Farm
Clem Clay grew up the child of back-to-the land farmers in Vermont. In 2022, Clay and his wife, Tiffany, bought Small Ones Farm on Bay[...]
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VB: Ciesluk’s Farm Stand
The family history behind Ciesluk’s Farmstand, a roadside mainstay on Routes 5 and 10 in Deerfield, mirrors the trajectory of many Polish arrivals to the[...]
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VB: Blue Heron Restaurant
Blue Heron Restaurant and Catering, tucked into the old town hall in Sunderland, is a lot of things to a lot of people. It’s a[...]
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VB: Ashfield Farmers’ Market
The Berkshire Mountains of western Massachusetts are among the oldest mountain formations in the country, continuing the Green Mountain Range from Vermont to the south.[...]
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Valley Bounty: Great Falls Farmers’ Market
While many of the legacy farmers’ markets in the Valley have been in existence for decades and have dozens of vendors with thousands of customers[...]
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VB: Barstow’s Dairy Store and Bakery and Barstow’s Longview Farm
The Barstow family has been producing milk in Hadley since the 1920s – and after nearly 90 years, they knew they had to make some[...]
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Valley Bounty: Teddy C. Smiarowski Farm
The Smiarowski family name has been a fixture in valley farming since around 1923, when Alexander Smiarowski came from Poland, and purchased farmland in Montague[...]
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Valley Bounty: Moody Family Farm in Bernardston
When farming is in the family, the land calls no matter where else life takes a person. Aaron Moody, owner-operator of Moody Family Farm, was[...]
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