VB: Summer Fun on the Farm
Summer sparkles with family vacations, catching up with friends and children enjoying school break. For many farms in the Valley, summer is the peak growing[...]
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VB: Nasami Farm
June is National Pollinator Month, which celebrates the pollinators that keep our ecosystem—and food system—healthy. It’s an invitation for home gardeners to think about the[...]
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VB: Crooked Stick Pops
Although not a farmer, Julie Tuman’s first job as a kid in North Carolina was throwing hay bales and her second job was picking blackberries.[...]
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VB: Golonka Farm
Golonka Farm is a beloved institution in Whately, famous locally for growing a wide variety of vegetables, for their fresh-picked sweet corn, and for the[...]
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VB: Starview Gardens
Laurenitis Farm stand was built in the 1973 by Robert and Benigna Laurenitis, the fourth generation to farm on the family land in Sunderland. Karina[...]
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VB: Many Graces
Rebecca Maillet started growing flowers in 2016 as a tribute to her soulmate, Ruth, whom she lost to cancer. In the denouement of their time[...]
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VB: Letendre Farm
Spring is here and backyard chickens all around the Valley are responding to the longer days by laying more eggs – but at Letendre Farm[...]
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VB: Mi Tierra Tortillas
Longtime friends and business partners, Michael Docter and Jorge Sosa first met in Hadley, when Sosa was operating the Mi Tierra Restaurant in Hadley. Docter[...]
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VB: Senior Farm Share
While food is fuel for the human body, community sustains the human psyche. For senior citizens living on their own, social interaction and nutrition become[...]
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VB: Bascom Hollow Farm
At first glance, Bascom Hollow Farm in Gill is a straightforward operation. Co-owner Brian Donahue says, “we raise primarily grass-fed beef along with 10 pigs[...]
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VB: Family Farming Westhampton
Intervale Farm in Westhampton lies in a bucolic valley under the east slopes of the Berkshire hills, surrounded by a patchwork of farms. Rick Tracy[...]
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VB: Justamere Tree Farm
Deb Rocque, Kim Trust and Kelly Auer met in Alaska. Rocque and Trust worked in conservation for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, and Auer[...]
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