Valley Bounty: Brookfield Farm
This week at Brookfield Farm, a community supported agriculture (CSA) farm in Amherst, spring crops continue to take root in freshly tilled fields, gratefully[...]
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Valley Bounty: Couch Brook Farm
Vibrant yellow and purple pansies coloring local farm stands, their faces turned upward to greet the sun, are sure signs of warmth returning to New England.
“I[...]
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Valley Bounty: Everyday Farm
Spring is springing up at Everyday Farm in Gill. Actually, it’s bouncing all over the place.
“We’ve had about a hundred lambs born so far[...]
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Valley Bounty: Big Y
For Big Y, the commitment to serving neighbors food from local farms started at the beginning. In 1936, Paul D’Amour and his brother, Gerry D’Amour,[...]
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Valley Bounty: Song Sparrow Farm
Toni Hall is a farmer hoping to turn some heads. A diminutive plant known as spilanthes, with flowers called buzz buttons, is helping get[...]
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Valley Bounty: Bergeron Sugar House
Bob Bergeron, of Bergeron’s Sugar House in Leyden, has been sugaring for over fifty years. He first got hooked on maple during high school, at[...]
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Valley Bounty: Mayval Farm
Mayval Farm raises dairy and beef cows, makes maple syrup, and turns some of their milk into a variety of specialty dairy products in their[...]
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Valley Bounty: Sunrise Farms Maple
"We call it liquid gold,” Erik Lively says of maple syrup. This is his favorite time of year at Sunrise Farms in the hills of[...]
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Valley Bounty: Cooley Dickinson Hospital
As day breaks each morning, Cooley Dickinson Hospital in Northampton is already a hive of activity. Doctors and nurses on overnight shifts trade places[...]
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Valley Bounty: Wells Provisions
At first glance, Charlemont may seem an unlikely place to open a restaurant that features New Orleans cooking. When the pandemic offered a chance to[...]
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Valley Bounty: Bostrom Farm
Talk to most farmers raising animals on pasture, and they’ll tell you the same thing – from a farming perspective, the animals are secondary.
"Our mantra[...]
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Valley Bounty: Pause and Pivot Farm
‘When people think about farming, a lot of specific imagery may come to mind,” says Miana Hoyt Dawson of Pause and Pivot Farm in[...]
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