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Tony Reiber and Abrah Dresdale teach farm and food systems at Greenfield Community College in the new perma-culture garden outside the new energy efficient green house at the Greenfield Campus.

GCC’s sustainable food initiative plants seeds for growth

Monday, May 20, 2013

The new triangular, 40-foot-tall greenhouse at the southern end of Greenfield Community College reaches skyward, and has a new, multi-pronged permaculture garden being planted at its base. It’s as if to say the sky’s the limit for this most grounded of GCC’s new initiatives: Farm and Food Systems. At the close of the first year of sustainable food and farming as a major, with 18 students participating, the enthusiasm is as palpable as the humming of bees in one of the four “re-skilling” courses being offered. The nearly $600,000, near-zero-net-energy greenhouse — with heavily insulated walls, solar-heated water to warm growing beds and ventilation for … 0

Davol leaves RiverCulture for Chamber job

Monday, May 20, 2013

TURNERS FALLS — Having promoted arts, culture and the related economy in downtown Turners Falls for 7 years, Lisa Davol is headed off for similar work in a broader area. Davol has helmed the Turners Falls RiverCulture project — responsible for everything from the annual Turners Fall Block Party to the fish-themed crosswalk … 0

Gill voters choose school board members

Monday, May 20, 2013

GILL — By narrow margins, Gill voters put their weight behind incumbent Marjorie Levenson and non-incumbent Charles Kelley in the three-way race for two Montague resident seats on the Gill-Montague School Committee. The school committee results are not final until combined with the votes cast in Montague, which were not available for this story. Gill and Montague residents vote for one another’s representatives … 0