Ruth Hazzard, UMass Extension Vegetable Team

2003 Local Hero Awardee

Ruth:

• has committed to sustaining agriculture in the Valley by assisting vegetable producers to find sustainable solutions to problems
• has advanced land conservation and farm preservation
• has gained the regard of farmers throughout the state
• has applied research to practical problems facing farmers, thus bringing the lab into the field to make farms more profitable
• has, as editor of Vegetable Notes and through farm visits, described innovative solutions and new techniques to help farmers thrive economically as well as ecologically