The Recorder - My Turn: Wonderful time to buy local produce at area farmers markets recorder.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from recorder.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Columnist Claire Morenon: Farmers markets now full of the most exciting crops >Published: 7/28/2021 8:56:09 PM
Local businesses of all sorts have been through the wringer over the past year and a half and at CISA, where we work with local farms, food producers, restaurants, and retailers, we’ve seen their immense flexibility and resilience. Local farmers’ markets, which exist as part business, part community space, part event, and always as a labor of love, faced distinct challenges because of COVID-19. Now that we’re back in the height of the growing season, it’s a good moment to consider the factors that make farmers’ markets a unique and vital component of our local food system.
Fork & Spade: A community food digest for May
Ellie Viggiani, a volunteer with Grow Food Northampton, spreads mulch on one of the Giving Gardens at the community garden site off Spring street in Florence. Valley Grows Day 2021 is Wednesday, May 19, a collective fundraising effort among community-based food and land access and farming nonprofit organizations throughout western Massachusetts. Gazette file photo
Published: 5/14/2021 4:30:22 PM
One thing your Fork & Spade moderator loves about putting this column together is that while this monthly feature is always about food access and sustainability, there are so many different and innovative ways people are approaching these issues that there’s always something new and interesting to learn.
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Leora Fisher, left, and Cedric Ayvazian, both juniors at the Hartsbrook School, transplant heirloom Matt’s Wild and Brandywine tomato seedlings for the Hartsbrook Harvest Shares CSA at the school in Hadley on Wednesday. STAFF PHOTO/KEVIN GUTTING
Jasper Piermarini, a junior at the Hartsbrook School, transplants heirloom Brandywine and Matt s Wild tomato seedlings for the Hartsbrook Harvest Shares CSA at the school in Hadley on Wednesday, May 5, 2021. STAFF PHOTO/KEVIN GUTTING STAFF PHOTO/KEVIN GUTTING
Cedric Ayvazian, a junior at the Hartsbrook School, pricks out a cluster of Matt s Wild tomato seedlings to transplant into individual containers for the Hartsbrook Harvest Shares CSA at the school in Hadley on Wednesday, May 5, 2021. STAFF PHOTO/KEVIN GUTTING
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