Intervale Farm News Today

To the Editor: On behalf of our Western Maine neighbors, the Bethel Area District Exchange and Food Pantry would like to thank Sunday River Resort for donating 192 turkeys and all the fixings for Thanksgiving dinner. We also wish to thank Rotary Club of Bethel and our volunteers for distributing turkey baskets in time for […]

Founder of Gardener's Supply and the Intervale Center was an idealistic capitalist and steward of land and people

Brian Mulvehill of Westhampton is holding onto the last days of summer with a feast of local tomatoes, burrata, basil and homemade sourdough bruschetta. He got the tomatoes at Intervale Farm in Westhampton and the burrata from Maplebrook Farm in North...

NORTHAMPTON — Whether it’s her sweet-tasting Adriatic figs or Magic Mollie purple potatoes, Linda Lazarus of Twin Oaks Farms puts as much love into selling her produce as she does growing it.“You’ve gotta try this,” she says to a customer at the...

NORTHAMPTON — The Northampton Farmers’ Market is back for its 48th season starting this Saturday on Gothic Street. The market will be open from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. from April 30 through Nov. 12. On its first Saturday, it will feature flowering...

Farming advocates suggest developers look to degraded land to build large solar farms

WESTHAMPTON — Where has the rest of the nativity scene at Westhampton Congregational United Church of Christ gone?This time of year, it isn’t uncommon to see a nativity scene assembled in front of churches in celebration of the Christmas season. While...

‘We’re trying to work around the mud’: Local farmers cope with near-record breaking rain in July "> Cabbage, broccoli and other vegetables in a field too wet to cultivate at Intervale Farm in Westhampton. STAFF PHOTO/CAROL LOLLIS "> Potato plants that were sitting in a puddle of water after the 15 inches of rain fell in July in a field at Intervale Farm in Westhampton. “Things were looking good and then it rained and rained,” explained co-owner Rick Tracy, “It hit a tipping point an...

Gazette beat reporter ready to cover Hilltowns Bera Dunau My journalism career began in the Hilltowns. In 2011, I was interviewed for a reporter’s position at The Berkshire Beacon, a small Lenox-based paper. Because I was visiting friends in the Pioneer Valley at the time, the publisher and I met at the Old Creamery in Cummington. I got the job, less than a year after graduating from Hampshire College, and the course of my life was forever altered. A lot has happened since that successful in...