farm commons

Oct 29 2013
Published by under Community Resources, Food in the Pioneer Valley
a tremendous resource on farm law!  Worth a look.
 
Farm Commons.org
 Farm Commons provides the proactive legal services sustainable farmers need to become the stable, resilient foundation of a community-based food system.
Farm Commons provides business legal services to farmers, creates useful legal education resources, and [continue reading]

Maps of Massachusetts: Supporting Social Studies & Local History

Oct 23 2013
Published by under Community Resources, History, The Hilltowns Region
Old maps are a useful tool to use to study local history and supplement social studies. Thanks to the Massachusetts State Library, archives of thousands of maps of communities all over the state from the 19th and 20th centuries are now available online… [continue reading]

online, international seed swap!

Oct 22 2013
Published by under Community Resources, Food in the Pioneer Valley
pavotSeems like a work in progress, but a great idea. 
Graines de Troc
It is a online platform where everyone can share and trade seeds. We all build the same available list. Each shipment of seeds is worth a token that allows members to choose any variety in the list. Swapping is [continue reading]

Getting a Start on Growing New Farmers

Oct 7 2013
Published by under Community Resources, Food in the Pioneer Valley
DailyRecord (N.J.)
By Michele S. Byers
Innovation in farming is nothing new in this state we’re in. But a new program to help aspiring farmers succeed and gain access to farmlands is another New Jersey innovation.
The “incubator farm” program created by the Northeast Organic Farming [continue reading]

henry george: poverty and progress, an audio experience

Oct 7 2013
Published by under Community Resources
progress_poverty_1307_thumbListen HERE
LibriVox  recording of Progress and Poverty, by Henry George. Read by Tim Makarios.
What I have done in this book, if I have correctly solved the great problem I have sought to investigate, is, to unite the truth perceived by the school of [continue reading]

this is the farm podcast

Sep 24 2013
Published by under Art, Poetry and Musings, Community Resources, Food in the Pioneer Valley
another episode is up!  We’ll continue to periodically remind you of this helpful and inspirational podcast.
‘This Is The Farm’ – a podcast by the Texas Young Farmer Coalition. This week is Brad Stufflebeam, who is brilliant and very excellent.  You can find it here:
http://www.texasyoungfarmers.org/episode-5-brad-stufflebeam-of-home-sweet-farm/
or subscribe to it here through iTunes:
[continue reading]

much afoot, ahoof and aweft

Aug 28 2013
Published by under Community Resources
catherine-X3_-494x421at Fibershed . Always a good reminder.

Fibershed is a non-profit organization that provides experiential education that both generates awareness, and teaches the necessary skills within our community to build and sustain a thriving bioregional textile culture that functions hand-in-hand with principles of ecological balance, local economies, and regional [continue reading]

vegetable problems photo gallery

Aug 2 2013
Published by under Community Resources, Food in the Pioneer Valley, Gardening

Save this bookmark for later…here is the link to the PNW Veg Group’s photo gallery of vegetable problems:
http://mtvernon.wsu.edu/path_team/diseasegallery.htm [continue reading]

PBS LearningMedia: Digital Media for Educators

Jul 16 2013
Published by under Community Resources, The Hilltowns Region
This week we take a look at PBS LearningMedia, a free online digital media service for preK-12 educators (formal & informal). PBS Learning Media provides a wide variety of educational resources to help curious families expand their learning with extensive content, presented in the form of videos, still images, games, audio clips, rich text, and [continue reading]

STEMBite: Bite Sized Videos Supporting STEM Education

Jul 10 2013
Published by under Community Resources, Especially for Kids, The Hilltowns Region
Add some science to these hot summer days with STEMBite, a YouTube channel that offers snack-size videos focused on topics in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) and the things in our everyday lives that they are related to… [continue reading]

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