My Turn: Stop the cuts to HIP and keep our communities fed
This winter, thousands of low-income Massachusetts families will have less food on their tables — unless we take action now. The state needs to allocate[...]
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Viewpoint: Gleanings from my 16 years in the WMass local food movement
As I am poised to leave my job after 16 years as executive director of CISA (Community Involved in Sustaining Agriculture), naturally, I’ve started to[...]
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Opinion: Local farmers need our continued support
The widespread flooding that hit our region in mid-July illuminates many truths: the vulnerability of many local farms, the hard reality of climate change, and[...]
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The Recorder: Farms, floods, and climate change
The Recorder, July 25, 2023 GUEST COLUMN: Farms, floods, and climate change By CLAIRE MORENON, MARGARET CHRISTIE and PHIL KORMAN On July 10, heavy rains[...]
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Facing up to climate-driven farm disasters, today and tomorrow (Commentary)
Climate change will make extreme weather events more frequent. Recent flooding and freezes show the devastation these events can cause — and the response that’s[...]
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Outlook 2023: Celebrating 30 years of ‘Buy Local Food’
The new year is an opportunity to reflect on the challenges, lessons and growth of the past year, and to prepare ourselves[...]
Columnist Claire Morenon: Resolutions in the face of climate change
This past summer, local farms were again buffeted by extreme weather, one of the many challenging impacts of climate change in our region. After 2021’s[...]
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Guest columnist Phillip Korman: Yes on 4 — common sense for safer roads
The Work and Family Mobility Act, passed this summer by an overwhelming majority in the Massachusetts Legislature, was a common-sense move towards safer roads and[...]
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Columnist, Margaret Christie: Local farms need to pay the bills too
As we move into the height of the harvest season, farmers are making hard decisions about how much to raise their prices to cover their[...]
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A vote for public safety and dignity
The Recorder, May 4, 2022. Letter to the Editor: This Thursday, every state senator in Massachusetts will have the opportunity to say yes to public[...]
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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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