Nutrition team engages the community to teach families healthy eating habits

Mar 4 2014
Published by under Community Resources
by Diane Alpern RD, LDN, Food Bank Nutrition Coordinator

Nutrition Coordinator Diane Alpern visits Lorraine’s Soup Kitchen & Pantry in Chicopee to provide a healthy food sampling and some helpful cooking tips.
In a recent government study, it was reported that researchers found that obesity among children ages [continue reading]

Farms survey feeds into resilient local food system

Feb 27 2014
Published by under Community Resources, Food in the Pioneer Valley
The Recorder, February 27, 2014. By Richie Davis.
A new survey of Franklin County farmers is pointing the way for a “Farm and Food System Project” to boost the region’s agricultural economy.
The survey, which drew responses from 134 farmers, is part of a program for which the Franklin Regional Council [continue reading]

Farm to Food Bank to Family

Feb 20 2014
Published by under Community Resources, Food in the Pioneer Valley
By the Food Bank of Western Massachusetts
Farm to Food Bank to Family, a new initiative of The Food Bank of Western Massachusetts, is asking farmers in Berkshire,
Franklin, Hampden, and Hampshire Counties to plant a quarter acre or more of land to provide our neighbors in
need of food [continue reading]

Why is PVGrows Inviting Our Members to an Undoing Racism Training?

Feb 14 2014
Published by under Community Resources
I attended my first PVGrows Forum last Spring.  I had been hearing about PVGrows and its work from my friends and colleagues in the Food Justice movement in Springfield where I live.  I was not sure if it would be a good fit for me though.  As former PVGrows Intern Kamilah Weeks suggested in her [continue reading]

CISA enhances marketing skills of farmers

Feb 12 2014
Published by under Community Resources
Farmers in our region connect to an enthusiastic consumer base using a wide variety of tools – websites, Facebook, newsletters, and interaction at farmers’ markets, farm stands, and CSA distributions. They also use  Be a Local Hero, Buy Locally Grown ®, Community Involved in Sustaining Agriculture (CISA)’s successful buy-local campaign.
Investing in marketing is [continue reading]

Farm school seeded with $130K: Hawlemont principal says there’s strong community support

Feb 7 2014
Published by under Community Resources
The Greenfield Recorder, February 7, 2014. By Diane Broncaccio CHARLEMONT — Hawlemont has a little lamb, and now it has a $130,000 Community Innovation Challenge Grant with which to put together an agricultural-based curriculum in time for the start of school by this fall.
“We’re very excited, although the students don’t know about [continue reading]

Science and the Sea Podcast

Dec 30 2013
Published by under Community Resources, Especially for Kids
What’s the longest creature in the sea? Why do clownfish swim in groups? What makes tsunamis different from tidal waves? Discover the answers to these questions – and many more! – via your iPod with the Science and the Sea podcast.
Recorded as a radio show, Science and the Sea is available [continue reading]

Franklin County Community Development Corp. kitchen in Greenfield key link in local food chain

Nov 4 2013
Published by under Community Resources, Farmstands and Markets, Food in the Pioneer Valley, Gardening
Daily Hampshire Gazette. November 4, 2013.  By Richie Davis
When Joe Czajkowski delivered a ton of carrots, already peeled and “coin-cut,” to the Western Massachusetts Food Processing Center last week from his 99-year-old Hatfield farm, Liz Buxton and her crew got to work.
Next February will be promoted as “carrot month” as [continue reading]

farm hack press

Nov 4 2013
Published by under Community Resources, Food in the Pioneer Valley
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Farm Hack
by  Courtney White , originally published by  The carbon pilgrim   | NOV 1, 2013
Welcome to the virtual coffee shop for agrarians! Pull up a laptop and join the conversation. Do you have a farming issue on your mind, or maybe a [continue reading]

How to Hold a Holiday Food Drive, Anytime of the Year!

Oct 30 2013
Published by under Community Resources
Food drives are just one of the many ways to help support those in need within your community, and food banks and survival centers are generally so easy to support and access that even teens and tweens can facilitate food drives at their schools or in their neighborhoods. Learn how you can host a food [continue reading]

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