Columnist Claire Morenon: The case for local dairy
Daily Hampshire Gazette, June 27, 2019. Dairy farms have long been the backbone of agriculture in the Northeast. Today, unfettered production and a wholesale pricing[...]
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Columnist Claire Morenon: The view from the national Agricultural Census
Daily Hampshire Gazette, May 28, 2019
Farmers across the nation are facing real challenges, including increasingly uncertain weather patterns due to climate change and the financial[...]
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Columnists Mia Kortebein, Philip Korman, and Christina Maxwell: Massachusetts can address hunger and healthy eating through local farms
Daily Hampshire Gazette, April 23, 2019. Hunger is everywhere in our Valley, from Amherst to Springfield, from Orange to East Longmeadow.
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Columnist Claire Morenon: CSAs play critical role in success on the farm
The Daily Hampshire Gazette, March 25, 2019. By Claire Morenon
This is an exciting time of year on local vegetable farms: greenhouses are waking up as the[...]
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Columnist Claire Morenon: Late winter on the farm
Daily Hampshire Gazette, February 25, 2019, by Claire Morenon
We’re unarguably in the depths of winter, but signs of the coming spring have started to emerge[...]
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Outlook 2019: CISA marks 25 years of growing Local Heroes in Western Massachusetts
The Republican. February 18, 2019. Claire Morenon.
This past year, Community Involved in Sustaining Agriculture (CISA) celebrated 25 years of building connections between farms and the communities[...]
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Columnist Claire Morenon: Winter farmers’ markets in the new year
The Daily Hampshire Gazette, January 22, 2019, by Claire Morenon
In January, when the hubbub of the holiday season has died down and the long slog[...]
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Columnist Claire Morenon: How the local food system has changed in 25 years
The Daily Hampshire Gazette, December 27, 2018, by Claire Morenon. This month, we come to the end of CISA’s 25th anniversary year. This landmark has[...]
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Columnist Claire Morenon: Climate change and farming in Massachusetts
The Daily Hampshire Gazette, December 3, 2018, by Claire Morenon. “Climate change, once considered an issue for a distant future, has moved firmly into the[...]
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Guest columnist Claire Morenon: Land use, environmental impact, and local meat
The Daily Hampshire Gazette, October 23, 2018, by Claire Morenon. Do you eat meat? Whether you do or not, you’ve probably noticed that meat production[...]
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Columnist Claire Morenon: Pickles, salsa, sriracha and local farms
The Daily Hampshire Gazette, September 25, 2018, by Claire Morenon. We’re in the thick of harvest season, and while you might expect farmers to be[...]
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Columnist Margaret Christie: National policy with local impacts
The Daily Hampshire Gazette, August 27, 2018, by Margaret Christie. The past month has been tough for many farmers. Frequent, heavy rains have caused increased[...]
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