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Food Truck Friday Friday, June 17, 4:00-8:00pm (and every 3rd Friday through August) Belchertown Common Event Details: Food Truck Fridays returns this summer! Come spend the third Friday of June, July and August with us for an evening of food and entertainment. Trucks: – Macken’s Sliders – Nom Nom Hut – Rooster’s Roaming Cantina – …
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Chicopee Center Fresh farmers market returns for 2nd year on June 3, bringing food trucks, live music, cider and produce to city center “A farmer’s market in Chicopee Center will return for its second year in early June, again bringing fresh produce, hard cider, lunch, music and crafts to the site of the former public …
Outlook Farm SpringFest Weekend Saturday& Sunday, May 14-15, 12-6pm Outlook Farm Barn & Eatery, 136 Main Road (Rt. 66), Westhampton, MA Open to the public Event Details: Spring is here, let’s get this party rolling! KickOff the Outlook Farm Spring Fest Weekend with the 2022 opening of the Backyard Taproom @Outlook Farm, Day 1: Saturday …
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Each year (minus a pandemic year or two), CISA presents Local Hero Awards to farms, businesses, or individuals who exemplify our mission of strengthening farms and engaging the community to build the local food economy. We applaud their hard work, social responsibility, and many contributions to sustaining local agriculture. Healthy Hampshire is an initiative of […]
Here’s a surprise: one of the biggest animal farms in western Massachusetts is in Turners Falls. Perhaps also a surprise – they raise fish.
“Our facility has been a fish farm since the 90’s,” says Spencer Gowan, general manager at Great Falls Aquaculture. “We’re an indoor aquaculture farm raising a species of southeast Asian sea bass called Barramundi.”
Supporting local farms might involve choosing to eat local, but what about dressing local? After all, farms grow more than food.
Choosing locally grown fiber and fabrics benefits local farmers, business owners, and landscapes, and can achieve many of the same social and environmental benefits as choosing local food. Yet the support and rhetoric behind a movement for local fiber isn’t as well established – yet. Marti Ferguson of Walking Cloud Farm in Buckland has thoughts on how that can change.
Claire Morenon talks to Ashely Tresoline of Bella Foodie about how CISA supports local farms and helps everyone afford, find, and use the incredible array of delicious, locally grown food that surrounds us here in western Massachusetts.
Listening to Annie Diemand Bucci talk about her family’s Diemand Farm feels a lot like opening the door of their farm store – it’s like walking into a warm hug. The joy that Annie and her daughter, Tessa White-Diemand, express when they talk about feeding people and carrying on their family’s farming legacy is palpable, and that care shines through in everything they do.
“People have evolved with plants for thousands of years,” Hannah Jacobson-Hardy of Sweet Birch Herbals in Ashfield reminds us. “And herbal medicine is still the most used healing practice in the world.”
Through Sweet Birch Herbals, Jacobson-Hardy aims to keep her community rooted to the teaching, healing, and all-around wellbeing that local plants and herbs can provide.
For your Thanksgiving shopping needs and beyond, Fruit Fair Supermarket in Chicopee is “a supermarket with a mission,” as Monte Belmonte puts it in this Local Hero Spotlight on WRSI The River. Co-owner Sam Newell left a career in the corporate grocery world to run Fruit Fair and focus on improving access to good food […]