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Recipes and Cooking Tips

In addition to the recipes listed below, check out which farms and local food bloggers CISA staff read for inspiration.

Valley Bounty: Rainbow Harvest Farm

May 3, 2020 Posted in: CISA's Valley Bounty Column, Press Room, Valley Bounty Recipes

“This year, March felt like April and April felt like March,” said David Paysnick, who owns Rainbow Harvest Farm in Greenfield, during a recent conversation.[...]

Valley Bounty: Marty’s Local

April 26, 2020 Posted in: CISA's Valley Bounty Column, Press Room, Valley Bounty Recipes

When Nick Martinelli saw Governor Baker’s emergency order that shut down schools and in-person dining at restaurants, he knew his business was about to enter[...]

Valley Bounty: CSAs

April 19, 2020 Posted in: CISA's Valley Bounty Column, Press Room, Valley Bounty Recipes

Shawn Robinson remembers a ServiceNet client who wouldn’t leave the house for long periods of time. But then the agency brought in some farm animals[...]

Valley Bounty: Mass Food Delivery, Mycoterra Farm

April 12, 2020 Posted in: CISA's Valley Bounty Column, Press Room, Valley Bounty Recipes

Our new routines of constant sanitization have been unfamiliar to many of us. But the team at Mycoterra Farm has been keeping it clean for[...]

Valley Bounty: Cheese

April 5, 2020 Posted in: CISA's Valley Bounty Column, Press Room, Cheese

Max Breiteneicher has enjoyed the slow season on his farm. “That section between Christmas and the end of March, all of our cows are just[...]

Valley Bounty: Compost

March 30, 2020 Posted in: CISA's Valley Bounty Column, Press Room, Valley Bounty Recipes

Mike Mahar has been making compost since he was a kid. “I grew up around it,” he explained during a recent conversation. Mahar was raised[...]

Valley Bounty: Plant Starts

March 22, 2020 Posted in: CISA's Valley Bounty Column, Bedding Plants, Press Room, Recipes and Cooking Tips, Valley Bounty Recipes

It feels like the COVID-19 pandemic has brought the world to a grinding halt. But nature is oblivious to national emergencies. Nowhere is that more[...]

Valley Bounty: Maple Syrup

March 15, 2020 Posted in: CISA's Valley Bounty Column, Press Room, Recipes and Cooking Tips, Maple, Valley Bounty Recipes

When I spoke with Howard Boyden last week, he was in the midst of an all-out maple syrup sprint. “This season is just killing us.[...]

Valley Bounty: Hard Cider

March 8, 2020 Posted in: Recipes and Cooking Tips, Cider

Steve Gougeon and his wife Jen Williams never planned to start a farm. “We like to say it’s a hobby that got out of control,”[...]

Valley Bounty: Sweet Potatoes

March 1, 2020 Posted in: CISA's Valley Bounty Column, Recipes and Cooking Tips, Sweet Potatoes, Valley Bounty Recipes

For years, Ryan Karb struggled to grow sweet potatoes. “I asked myself, ‘Am I not weeding them enough? Am I not watering them enough?” he[...]

Valley Bounty: Pesto

February 23, 2020 Posted in: CISA's Valley Bounty Column, Recipes and Cooking Tips, Pesto, Valley Bounty Recipes

Jeremy Barker Plotkin has run Simple Gifts Farm on a 30-acre Amherst property with Dave Tepfer since 2006. The pair and their crew grow ten[...]

Valley Bounty: Ginger

February 16, 2020 Posted in: CISA's Valley Bounty Column, Recipes and Cooking Tips, Ginger, Valley Bounty Recipes

Old Friends Farm has been a ginger-growing innovator in the region. Casey Steinberg, who co-owns the Amherst business with Missy Bahret, explained that their experimentation[...]

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