Valley Bounty: Bare Roots Farm
Each spring like clockwork, Eastern bluebirds magically return to nesting boxes alongside valley fields. These sightings and other signs of the changing seasons coax many[...]
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Valley Bounty: D. A. Smiarowski Farms
Spring has sprung, with green grass and vibrant flowers bursting forth across the Valley and hilltowns. Some wild edibles, like nettles, garlic mustard, and fiddleheads,[...]
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Valley Bounty: Broadfork Permaculture
In our farms, forests, yards, and everything in between, we say we grow things. Plants, animals, and fungi mostly. But do we grow them, or[...]
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Valley Bounty: Porter Family Farm
"I got my first team of oxen when I was 8 years old,” says Josh Porter of Porter Family Farm in Ashfield. “I’d get[...]
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Valley Bounty: Green Acres Fruit Farm
Flexibility is a critical skill in farming. Physical flexibility for sure – any farmer who’s contorted themselves to pull hard to reach weeds, prune a[...]
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Valley Bounty: Just Roots
Published March 26th, 2022 in the Daily Hampshire Gazette By Jacob Nelson The ground is thawing. Days are more light than dark now. Songbirds call[...]
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Valley Bounty: Great Falls Aquaculture
Here’s a surprise: one of the biggest animal farms in western Massachusetts is in Turners Falls. Perhaps also a surprise – they raise fish.
"Our facility[...]
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Valley Bounty: Mountainside Maple Farm
“A breath of spring.” That’s how Luke Longstreeth, owner of Mountainside Maple Farm in Hatfield, describes the recent arrival of maple sugaring season to[...]
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Valley Bounty: Keystone Market
For Krunal Patel, owner of Keystone Market in Shelburne Falls, selling local food is his form of civic engagement. “I want to be part[...]
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Valley Bounty: Something Special Cafe
Restaurants feed us. And when they use locally grown food, they feed our community in more ways than one. That’s something special – at least[...]
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Valley Bounty: Walking Cloud Farm
Supporting local farms might involve choosing to eat local, but what about dressing local? After all, farms grow more than food.
Choosing locally grown fiber and fabrics[...]
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Valley Bounty: Quabbin Hill Farms
Every farm looks a bit different. Some have fields full of plants rooted in the earth, while for others, their "fields" are soil-filled trays, set[...]
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