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Tag: Brookfield Farm

VB: Wheelhouse Catering

January 5, 2026 Posted in: CISA News, CISA's Valley Bounty Column, Uncategorized One, Press Room

Jake Mazar and Will Van Heuvelen weren’t trying to start a catering business. “It makes me chuckle,” Van Heuvelen says, “because this was sort of an accident. Jake and I,[...]

VB: Plum Brook Farm

August 16, 2025 Posted in: CISA News, CISA's Valley Bounty Column, Press Room

Clem Clay grew up the child of back-to-the land farmers in Vermont. In 2022, Clay and his wife, Tiffany, bought Small Ones Farm on Bay[...]

Farm Aid: Cut Hay, Not USDA!

March 27, 2025 Posted in: Federal Policy & Local Food, CISA News, Local Heroes in the News, Press Room

March 26, 2025 Farmers Rally Against USDA Cuts in Western Massachusetts by Jennifer Fahy On Sunday, an energetic crowd of farmers and farm supporters estimated to[...]

“Attack on Small Farms”: Valley Farmers Gather to Protest USDA Cuts

March 25, 2025 Posted in: Federal Policy & Local Food, CISA News, Local Heroes in the News, Press Room

3/23/25 Farmer Press Release Clad in muck boots and dirt-flecked Carhartts and arriving on tractors and leading goats, over 300 farmers, farmworkers, and their family[...]

Gazette: Irate Valley farmers sound off over ag cuts at ‘Attack on Small Farms’ rally

March 25, 2025 Posted in: Federal Policy & Local Food, CISA News, Local Heroes in the News, Press Room

Published in the Daily Hampshire Gazette: 03-24-2025 4:49 PM Modified: 03-24-2025 5:42 PM by Samuel Gelinas HADLEY — Irate farmers, waving signs and pitchforks, gathered[...]

Republican: WMass farmers protest federal funding cuts they say jeopardize food supplies

March 24, 2025 Posted in: Federal Policy & Local Food, CISA News, Local Heroes in the News, Press Room

Farmers and their allies crowded the lawn of the Hadley Town Hall Sunday afternoon, backed by a line of farm machinery decked[...]

CommonWealth Beacon: ‘Cut hay, not USDA’: Mass. farmers rally in Hadley against agriculture program cuts

March 24, 2025 Posted in: Federal Policy & Local Food, CISA News, Local Heroes in the News, Press Room

Hundreds Gathered outside Hadley Town Hall Sunday protesting a deluge of changes to the USDA by the Trump administration, including[...]

Valley Bounty: Brookfield Farm

April 28, 2023 Posted in: CISA News, CISA's Valley Bounty Column, Local Heroes in the News, Press Room

This week at Brookfield Farm, a community supported agriculture (CSA) farm in Amherst, spring crops continue to take root in freshly tilled fields, gratefully[...]

WRSI: Brookfield Farm

November 15, 2021 Posted in: CISA News, Local Heroes in the News, WRSI's "Local Hero Spotlight" interviews, Press Room

Brookfield is the third oldest community supported agriculture (CSA) farm in the country, and a biodynamic farm to boot. Anyone who buys a "share" (with[...]

Longtime manager at Valley’s first CSA steps down, leads fundraising campaign to buy farm

July 26, 2021 Posted in: Local Heroes in the News, Press Room

Since the mid-1990s, Dan Kaplan, with the help of his wife, Karen Romanowski, has managed Brookfield Farm in Amherst, one of the oldest CSAs (Community[...]

Local Hero Profile: Wheelhouse Farm Truck

August 8, 2017 Posted in: Restaurant Profiles, Local Hero Profiles

The inspiration for Wheelhouse Farm Truck came from Jake Mazar, Will Van Heuvelen, and Zoë Abram’s time spent working at Brookfield Farm, where cooking and[...]

Field to Feast… and Back Again

February 2, 2017 Posted in: Local Heroes in the News, Press Room

Edible Pioneer Valley, February 2, 2017, by Nikki Gardner. On a rain-soaked Sunday in October, Brookfield Farm hosted the second annual On Farm Dinner prepared[...]

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