Valley Bounty: Green Acres Fruit Farm
Flexibility is a critical skill in farming. Physical flexibility for sure – any farmer who’s contorted themselves to pull hard to reach weeds, prune a[...]
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WRSI: The Little White Goat Dairy
Rachel Scherer, the woman behind The Little White Goat Dairy at Heritage Fields in Orange talks with Phil and Monte about: The differences between cow[...]
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Valley Bounty: Just Roots
Published March 26th, 2022 in the Daily Hampshire Gazette By Jacob Nelson The ground is thawing. Days are more light than dark now. Songbirds call[...]
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WRSI: Prospect Meadow Farm (ServiceNet)
Prospect Meadow Farm in Hatfield, run by human services agency ServiceNet, provides meaningful employment to people with developmental disabilities. Farm Director Shawn Robinson and Operations[...]
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Raising goats ‘not for the faint of heart’
"If sheer cuteness and personality were the only factors, we might all have goats in our life. If you are thinking you might want to[...]
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WRSI: Cornucopia Natural Wellness Market
Nate Clifford, co-owner of Cornucopia Natural Wellness Market in Thorne’s Marketplace in Northampton, talks to Phil and Monte about the history of the natural foods[...]
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WAMC: Emergency loan fund helps western Massachusetts farms impacted by last summer’s record rains
Since its inception, the CISA fund has loaned out nearly $500,000 Listen to the full story here. Zero-interest loans have been awarded to help several[...]
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Valley Bounty: Great Falls Aquaculture
Here’s a surprise: one of the biggest animal farms in western Massachusetts is in Turners Falls. Perhaps also a surprise – they raise fish.
"Our facility[...]
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WRSI: Hart Farm
It's CSA season! Anna Meyer, farm owner and manager at Hart Farm in Conway talks to Phil and Monte about their highly flexible "farm-to-door"[...]
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Maple syrup season begins in western Massachusetts
WWLP by: Sy Becker Posted: Mar 6, 2022 / 07:21 PM EST Updated: Mar 6, 2022 / 07:21 PM EST
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Valley Bounty: Mountainside Maple Farm
“A breath of spring.” That’s how Luke Longstreeth, owner of Mountainside Maple Farm in Hatfield, describes the recent arrival of maple sugaring season to[...]
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WRSI: Black Birch Vineyard
WRSI, February 25, 2022. Ian Modestow, Director of Wine Growing at Black Birch Vineyards, Hatfield, talks about farming and growing grapes and how the weather[...]
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