Who knew that tales from the near reaches of the food system could be so funny and so moving, or that local folks who have spent so much time...
What makes the Greenfield Winter Fare stand out as something special in this year’s bounteous schedule of winter farmers markets? Well, for one...
On Thursday, Jan. 18, CISA (Communities Involved in Sustainable Agriculture) hosts the first of seven workshops this winter on labor issues for...
DEERFIELD — The arrest of three migrant farmworkers in a raid by federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents in Hatfield last fall...
WHATELY — Community Involved in Sustaining Agriculture (CISA) held its annual fundraiser to support local farms, raising more than $40,000.“CISA’s...
TURNERS FALLS — Cheers erupted as Chris Menegoni emerged from Great Falls Harvest’s kitchen to a standing-ovation crowd of 40 or so diners a couple...
SHELBURNE — In a school system where the food department has put a focused effort toward increasing access to local food, especially for the high...
For more than two decades, the farm-booster organization known as CISA — Community Involved in Sustaining Agriculture — has been a very public...
By ALEXA CHRYSSOVERGISFor The RecorderWhen Ben Clark did cuttings on his peaches, nectarines and plums this year and saw browned and blackened...