Columnist Claire Morenon: Impact of supply chain disruption on local food systems
The pandemic has brought a lot of new concepts and phrases into common understanding – and right now, what’s top of mind for many of[...]
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Columnist Claire Morenon: The burdens farmers carry
Daily Hampshire Gazette, October 1, 2021 Farming is a tough business — that’s no secret. Farmers work long, physically demanding hours and farm businesses run[...]
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Columnist Claire Morenon: Farmers markets now full of the most exciting crops
Daily Hampshire Gazette, July 28, 2021 Local businesses of all sorts have been through the wringer over the past year and a half — and[...]
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Columnist Claire Morenon: COVID, climate change and farms
Daily Hampshire Gazette, July 28, 2021 The COVID-19 crisis was impossible to ignore because of the speed with which it upended every facet of our[...]
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Guest columnist Alexis Breiteneicher: Mobile markets make local food accessible
Daily Hampshire Gazette, June 15, 2021 As summer approaches, several nonprofits are cleaning out their vans, mapping out routes, and coordinating with farmers for the[...]
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Year of COVID-19 has shown our local farms’ resiliency
The Recorder, April 7, 2021. By CLAIRE MORENON A year has passed since the COVID-19 pandemic changed nearly everything about our lives. For us at[...]
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Region’s food system steps up to the plate adapting to changes due to pandemic (Guest viewpoint)
MassLive, February 15, 2021. By Claire Morenon | Community Involved in Sustaining Agriculture Massachusetts farmers stepped up to meet the challenges of 2020 with flexibility,[...]
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Guest columnists Philip Korman and Claire Morenon: Let’s keep local restaurants going
Daily Hampshire Gazette, February 10, 2021 It’s almost hard to remember the feeling of being in a busy restaurant on a weekend night: people tucked[...]
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Columnist Claire Morenon: What sort of food system do we want, when the COVID crisis is over?
Daily Hampshire Gazette, January 29, 2021 The COVID-19 pandemic is far from over — by many metrics, it’s the worst it’s ever been. Still, the[...]
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Guest columnist Philip Korman: Think big to create a better food system
Daily Hampshire Gazette, December 31, 2020. Nine months into the pandemic, even with vaccines on the way, it is evident that its impacts will be[...]
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Columnist Philip Korman: Think Big to Create a Better Food System
There’s a lot we can do to address these challenges on the state level, on behalf of the over 7,000 farms and 25,000 agricultural[...]
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Columnist Claire Morenon: Finding Connection this Thanksgiving Through Celebrating the Harvest
Daily Hampshire Gazette, November 23, 2020
The social and emotional costs of the coronavirus pandemic have been immense, and the arrival of Thanksgiving throws those losses into[...]
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