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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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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