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Valley Bounty, April 19, 2014: CSA Shares

Apr 19 2014
CSA membership offers a concrete way to support local agriculture, know the people who grow your food, and add a seasonal rhythm to your table. On CISA’s CSA list , you’ll find a broad selection of vegetable CSAs , along with those offering meat , grain , [continue reading]

Four young farmers start Stone Soup Farm Co-op, on front of worker-owned farm trend

Apr 14 2014
Daily Hampshire Gazette, April 14th 2014, Rebecca Everett
HADLEY — Most farmers will tell you that cooperation is crucial to keeping a farm running like a well-oiled threshing machine.
But at Stone Soup Farm Cooperative in Hadley, cooperation is everything.
Four young farmers formed the worker-owned farm collective last fall [continue reading]

World’s Number 1 Herbicide Discovered in U.S. Mothers’ Breast Milk

Apr 9 2014
Sustainable Pulse
Credit: Occlusion Urine testing shows glyphosate levels over 10 times higher than in Europe Initial testing shows Monsanto and Global regulatory bodies are wrong regarding bio-accumulation of glyphosate, leading to serious public health concerns Testing commissioners urge USDA and EPA to place temporary ban on all use of [continue reading]

Profile: Left Field Farm

Apr 9 2014
By Jenny Miller Sechler
Published in the CISA April 2014 ENewsletter
Left Field Farm is an intimate place surrounded by forests full of life, with small greenhouses connected by stone walkways and a farm field alive with songbirds. “We didn’t grow this place,” says Maureen Sullivan, who, along with her [continue reading]

Strolling of the Heifers 2014 Locavore Index Highlights Benefits of Food from Local Farms

Apr 9 2014
LOCAVORE-INDEX-2014-INFOGRAPHICBRATTLEBORO, VT (April 7, 2014)— Strolling of the Heifers , a Vermont-based local food advocacy group, has released its third annual Locavore Index, a state-by-state ranking of commitment to local foods.
By compiling the Index, Strolling of the Heifers hopes to strengthen local farms and food systems by encouraging efforts across the [continue reading]

No Fences

Apr 8 2014
By Elizabeth Wolf, Communications & Development Director, The Cornucopia Institute
Image courtesy of Coonridge Dairy When Nancy Coonridge says she lives with her goat herd in the “wilds of New Mexico,” she’s not exaggerating. Coonridge Organic Goat Cheese Dairy perches at 8,000 feet elevation in the dry, rim rock country of western New [continue reading]

Dairy farmer warns proposed state rules governing manure would put him out of business

Apr 5 2014
The Daily Hampshire Gazette, April 5, 2014. By Richie Davis. 
“If you impose these regulations, there will be no dairy farms left in the state of Massachusetts,” Tedd White, a West Hawley dairy farmer with 114 Holsteins, told officials at the third and final Department of Agricultural Resources hearing on proposed “plant [continue reading]

Valley Bounty, March 29, 2014: Pork

Mar 29 2014
Pulled pork, pork chops. Empanadas, tamales, or dumplings.  Big roasts, or a little bit of bacon added for flavor. There are a lot of ways to eat a pig.  Local farmers are also growing different varieties of pigs, and can tell you about their choices. Locally grown pork is available direct from the farm through [continue reading]

Local Hero Farm Profile: Blossoming Acres

Mar 28 2014
Published by under Farmstands and Markets
By Abby Getman and Margaret Christie
Published in CISA’s 2013 Annual Report
Lenita and Jeff Bober grow vegetables, bedding plants and cut flowers, and operate an on-farm bakery on 80 acres in Southwick, Massachusetts. Southwick sits in the jog in the Massachusetts border with Connecticut, just south of Westfield, [continue reading]

ACLU Challenges Idaho ‘Ag Gag’ Law, Saying It Violates Free Speech And Freedom Of The Press

Mar 25 2014
Huff Post – Food for Thought
by Laura Zuckerman

SALMON, Idaho, March 17 (Reuters) – The American Civil Liberties Union of Idaho on Monday asked a federal judge to strike down a state law it says violates constitutional rights to free speech by banning the documentation of animal [continue reading]

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