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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Columnist Claire Morenon: Land use and climate change
Daily Hampshire Gazette, August 26, 2019 If we are going to prevent the most catastrophic effects of climate change, agriculture and food consumption patterns will[...]
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Letter to the Editor: Undocumented immigrants should be eligible for driver’s licenses
Daily Hampshire Gazette, July 30, 2019. By Philip Korman, Executive Director, and Claire Morenon, Communications Manager of CISA. At CISA, we are committed to strengthening[...]
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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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