Columnist Claire Morenon: Dairy farms and COVID-19
Daily Hampshire Gazette, June 22, 2020 The spread of COVID-19 has brought new and immense challenges for farmers across the country and for our entire[...]
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Columnist Claire Morenon: Coronavirus exposes bleak truths about the national meat industry
Daily Hampshire Gazette, May 31, 2020 The news from meat processing plants around the country is dire. In April, reports of coronavirus outbreaks among slaughterhouse[...]
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Columnist Claire Morenon: Farmers grapple with uncertainty
The Daily Hampshire Gazette, April 30, 2020 The spread of COVID-19 has pulled back the curtain on many of the hidden vulnerabilities in our national[...]
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Columnist Philip Korman: Incentive program keeps us all fed
Daily Hampshire Gazette, March 25, 2020 Right now the entire world is focused on the spread of COVID-19. Aside from the threat to human life,[...]
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Columnist Claire Morenon: Valley farms in their teenage years at a critical juncture
The Daily Hampshire Gazette, February 25, 2020 In the farming world, there’s a lot of focus on two groups: family farms that have been sustained[...]
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Western Massachusetts farmers till success with innovation, adaptability
By Claire Morenon/communications manager | Community Involved in Sustaining Argiculture (CISA) The Connecticut River valley is home to a vibrant local food system that is[...]
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Columnist Claire Morenon: You can eat local all winter long
It has been 10 years since the first weekly winter farmers’ market was established in the Valley. Northampton’s was the first, following several years of[...]
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Columnist Claire Morenon: 2019 reflections from CISA
Daily Hampshire Gazette, December 31, 2019 The turn of the year brings an opportunity for reflection on the year that has passed and the new[...]
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Columnist Claire Morenon: Hunger and local farms
Here in the Connecticut River Valley region of Massachusetts, 9.7% of the population is food insecure. That means that 68,600 of our neighbors in Franklin,[...]
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Columnist Claire Morenon: The next generation of farmers needs support
Farmers, as a population, are aging — the average age of farmers in Massachusetts is 59.1. The future of agriculture in our region depends on[...]
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Editorial: Let undocumented immigrants legally take the wheel
Daily Hampshire Gazette, October 3, 2019 For years, Massachusetts has lagged behind fellow progressive states on whether to offer driver’s licenses to undocumented immigrants. Thirteen[...]
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Column by Margaret Christie: Partnerships fuel farm-to-school
Margaret Christie, Daily Hampshire Gazette, September 23, 2019 This year’s back-to-school season has come with lots of good news about the farm-to-school efforts underway in[...]
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