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Valley Bounty Recipes

Archive of CISA’s Valley Bounty columns that focused on recipes and cooking tips.

Valley Bounty: Apples

September 23, 2019 Posted in: Apples, Recipes and Cooking Tips, Valley Bounty Recipes

“I don’t remember seeing this many apples on the trees for quite a while,” Aaron Clark told me during a recent conversation. Clark runs Clark[...]

Valley Bounty: Kale

September 16, 2019 Posted in: Recipes and Cooking Tips, Kale, Valley Bounty Recipes

The Valley is back to school. “It is peak vegetable and peak student season,” Maida Ives, Manager of Farm Operation and Education at Amherst College’s[...]

Valley Bounty: Mustard Green Seeds

September 9, 2019 Posted in: Recipes and Cooking Tips, Mustard Green Seeds, Valley Bounty Recipes

Linda Enerson is on a mission to breed rare and heirloom vegetable seeds here in the Valley. Enerson has run the Ox and Robin Farm[...]

Valley Bounty: Carrots

September 2, 2019 Posted in: Recipes and Cooking Tips, Carrots, Valley Bounty Recipes

Temperatures have dipped down into the 50’s during the nights this week. With September just around the corner, it feels as though summer has finally[...]

Valley Bounty: Canteloupe

August 26, 2019 Posted in: Recipes and Cooking Tips, Canteloupe, Valley Bounty Recipes

Late August is exciting because it brings the short window here in the Valley when local cantaloupe is in season. I recently spoke with Charlie[...]

Valley Bounty: Tomatoes

August 19, 2019 Posted in: Recipes and Cooking Tips, Tomatoes, Valley Bounty Recipes

The field tomato harvest is in full swing at farms across the Pioneer Valley. For Dean Landale, owner of The Bars Farm in Deerfield, the[...]

Valley Bounty: Peppers

August 12, 2019 Posted in: Recipes and Cooking Tips, Peppers, Valley Bounty Recipes

On farms across the Valley, pepper season has kicked into gear. The peppers are looking good at Kitchen Garden Farm in Sunderland, says Tim Wilcox,[...]

Valley Bounty: Sweet Corn

August 5, 2019 Posted in: Recipes and Cooking Tips, Corn, Valley Bounty Recipes

Steve Sapowsky knows that the Valley community starts looking for local sweet corn on the 4th of July. “People have gotten used to it but[...]

Valley Bounty: Peaches

July 29, 2019 Posted in: Recipes and Cooking Tips, Peaches, Valley Bounty Recipes

Ben Clark reports that the peach harvest is off to a great start. “So far, it’s been amazing flavor,” he told me during a recent[...]

Valley Bounty: Tulsi

July 22, 2019 Posted in: Recipes and Cooking Tips, Tulsi, Valley Bounty Recipes

Last week, Susan Pincus hosted a tour group of 20 teenagers on Sawmill Herb Farm, the farm she owns in Florence. “I was walking them[...]

Valley Bounty: Raspberries

July 15, 2019 Posted in: Recipes and Cooking Tips, Raspberries, Valley Bounty Recipes

By the 4th of July every year, phone calls are already rolling into Joe and Donna Pease. The question on everyone’s mind: when will raspberry[...]

Valley Bounty: Blueberries

July 8, 2019 Posted in: Recipes and Cooking Tips, Blueberries, Valley Bounty Recipes

Robert Sobieski is a man who loves blueberries. “I never get sick of them,” he told me during a recent conversation. “Every time I’m out[...]

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