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Maple Valley Creamery plans farmstand in South Deerfield
11-24-2024 11:25 AM

By CHRIS LARABEE

SOUTH DEERFIELD — New life may soon be coming to the vacant farmstand at the intersection of Routes 5 and 10 and North Hillside Road.Maple Valley Creamery, the Hadley-based dairy farm that also operates Maple Valley’s Scoop at the Silos, is eyeing the...


PHOTO: Dry days continue
11-17-2024 1:41 PM


Chamber breakfast celebrates farming, agritourism as ‘critical’ economic driver
11-15-2024 3:52 PM

By CHRIS LARABEE

GREENFIELD — With more than 800 farms and hundreds and thousands of workers providing food to the region and beyond, farming is more than just a way of life here in Franklin County.To celebrate what Franklin County Chamber of Commerce Executive...


Clessons River Farm in Buckland bridges technological innovation and music
11-15-2024 9:46 AM

By MARA MELLITS

Fifth-generation farmer Melissa Griffin’s life is anything but traditional.She operates Clessons River Farm in Buckland with her husband, Adam Griffin. She is also a classical trumpet player who studied trumpet performance at the University of...


Valley Bounty: Benefit cuts threaten farmer’s livelihood in New Salem
11-11-2024 9:00 AM

By JACOB NELSON

Jared Duval built his farm around Massachusetts’ innovative Healthy Incentives Program (HIP). Since 2017, HIP has helped tens of thousands of lower-income households buy fresh produce grown by local farmers. By most accounts, it’s been a wild success,...


App locates where to buy farm fresh eggs in Franklin, Hampshire counties
11-08-2024 7:01 PM

By MADISON SCHOFIELD

Wondering where you can find farm fresh eggs near you? If so, you may find just what you’re looking for on Egglister, a new web app with a map of farm stands in Franklin and Hampshire counties that are selling fresh eggs. The tool comes from data...


Amid $10M gap, Healthy Incentives Program payouts to be reduced in December
10-25-2024 6:41 PM

By CHRIS LARABEE

A big change will be coming to families who take advantage of the Healthy Incentives Program (HIP).Beginning in December, all families using HIP benefits, regardless of their household size, will see their monthly incentives reduced to $20, which is,...


Valley Bounty: Plant medicine for the people: Local herbal company grows their own ingredients
10-18-2024 11:47 AM

By JACOB NELSON

Sometimes, medicine comes from a pill bottle. Other times, it grows right in your backyard, if only you knew how to access it.Blending modern chemistry with traditional wisdom, Blue Crow Botanicals puts locally grown herbal medicine right at people’s...


State reports 100% negative results for Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza in dairy herds
10-13-2024 9:59 AM

By MARA MELLITS

Earlier this year, a nationwide outbreak of Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza in cows caused panic for dairy farmers everywhere. Now, Massachusetts has become the only state to test all of its dairy herds, from 95 farms, and achieve 100% negative...


In a pickle at the Tyler Memorial Library: A no-cook, no-sink-required pickling recipe
10-07-2024 3:27 PM

By TINKY WEISBLAT

A couple weeks ago, I attended a quick-pickling workshop at the Tyler Memorial Library in Charlemont. The library serves both Hawley and Charlemont. Librarian Kim Gabert arranges about one workshop a month.Somehow, I hadn’t managed to get to any of...


Ashfield nonprofit gets $171K to bolster climate-resilient farming in Kentucky, Hawaii
10-04-2024 5:26 PM

By MADISON SCHOFIELD

ASHFIELD — A local nonprofit is helping convert a Kentucky coal mine into a farm and teach Hawaiian farmers how to run prosperous, resilient businesses in the face of climate change.Regenerative Farms, founded by Ashfield resident Mary Johnson in...


Western Mass farmers battle ‘pumpkin plague’
09-27-2024 5:33 PM

By ANTHONY CAMMALLERI

With the start of October right around the corner, some squash and pumpkin farmers in the Pioneer Valley and North Quabbin are bearing the burden of Phytophthora capsici — a soil-based disease described by one farmer as being “like the plague” for...


State climate chief hears from area farmers on putting climate-resilient methods into practice
09-16-2024 5:11 PM

By CHRIS LARABEE

SUNDERLAND — Two local farms opened their doors to Climate Chief Melissa Hoffer on Monday morning to talk about the challenges brought on by climate change, as well as opportunities for future investments in the industry.The state’s first-ever climate...


Adapting together: Local support, federal funding help farms respond to climate change
09-10-2024 4:22 PM

By JACOB NELSON

CHESTERFIELD — Three people. Two businesses. One piece of farmland. Countless ways that climate change is making farming harder.And yet, plenty of hope, because these farmers have a plan. With support from peers, nonprofits and even Uncle Sam, they’re...


Valley Bounty: This farm grows friendship: Connie and Bill Gillen encourage pick-your-own at Sunset Farm in Amherst
09-03-2024 6:02 AM

By LISA GOODRICH

Sunset Farm in Amherst is a neighborhood farm that emphasizes the social aspects of farming in community. Owners Connie and Bill Gillen grow vegetables and flowers on 10 acres, within walking and biking distance of the University of Massachusetts...


Sunderland’s Kitchen Garden Farm nabs third place in state’s annual tomato contest
09-01-2024 9:09 AM

By CHRIS LARABEE

BOSTON — While Kitchen Garden Farm’s Pink Jazz tomato was honored with third place in the heaviest category at the 39th Annual Tomato Contest in Boston earlier this month, don’t expect to find this form of tomato among the farm’s produce.Weighing in...


Where it’s fun to get lost: Mike’s Maze returns Sept. 6 with a circus theme
08-30-2024 10:38 AM

By CHRIS LARABEE

Corn one, come all!The circus is coming to Sunderland this fall, as Mike’s Maze turns itself into a corn-ival for the 2024 season, with its “Join the Circus” theme. With stars and the theme’s phrase etched into the corn field, the famous labyrinth is...


Captive audience: Farmers air concerns during McGovern’s 14th annual farm tour
08-27-2024 4:25 PM

By CHRIS LARABEE and ALEXANDER MACDOUGALL

SUNDERLAND — From extreme weather related to climate change to stronger crop insurance protections and an increase on the cap on lending, area farmers paused their work briefly Tuesday to share their concerns with U.S. Rep. Jim McGovern when he swung...


Bingo Night to raise money for Dickinson Memorial Library furniture
08-13-2024 10:35 AM

By MADISON SCHOFIELD

NORTHFIELD — Fans of bingo, books or beer can find entertainment that’s up their alley at a fundraiser, held at The Brewery at Four Star Farms, to buy new furniture for the Children’s Room at Dickinson Memorial Library.The fundraiser will be held...


Valley Bounty: Fresh figs? In Massachusetts?: Leyden Farm unlocks new flavors and farming possibilities
08-09-2024 11:24 AM

By JACOB NELSON

It’s rare to try an entirely new food as an adult. Rarer still to realize it was growing under your nose the whole time.Before he started farming them in Leyden, Tom Ashley had never eaten a fig outside of a Fig Newton. Even the idea of fig trees...

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