The Recorder, October 30, 2018, by Andy Castillo
Pumpkins are everywhere this time of year. They decorate doorsteps and kitchen tables. They’re for sale outside supermarkets. They overflow from farmstands on the side of the road, and at a recent Tuesday Market in Northampton, along with gourds and roots, they were a [continue reading]
Cooking with locally grown foods help support farms and the economy
Jul
26
2018
Western Mass News, July 26, 2018. We’re at the height of the growing season and today, we’re supporting our local community by cooking with some fresh grown good.s Claire Morenon with CISA joined Better Western Mass to tell us more about the importance of local food and how you can make ‘raspberry fool. [continue reading]
MassAppeal: Community Supported Agriculture
Mar
31
2018
WWLP, March 28, 2018
There are many ways to get fresh local produce in Western Massachusetts, such as Community Supported Agriculture, or farm shares. Claire Morenon, CISA’s Communications Manager, explained, and showed us how to make a kale salad.
Kale Salad with Apples, Almonds, and Goat Cheese
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Valley Bounty: Herbal Teas
Oct
25
2017
When it comes to first-thing-in-the-morning caffeine intake, I have to admit that I am a staunch member of Team Coffee. For a number of reasons—some habitual and some simply chemical—I’m not especially interested in making significant changes to that particular morning routine. But as cold nights begin to settle in for the season, I do [continue reading]
Hiring: Post-Harvest Manager – Queen’s Greens
Oct
20
2016
Queen’s Greens is seeking a Post-Harvest Manager. Queen’s Greens is an organic vegetable farm in North Amherst and Sunderland Massachusetts. We grow baby greens, herbs and select vegetables. During the winter we grow spinach in our greenhouses. This is a year-round position for which we are seeking candidates who are interested in a long-term position.
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Valley Bounty: Spaghetti Squash
Oct
15
2016
I did not really know anything about spaghetti squash for most of my life, other than that it had a funny name. Then, somehow, seemingly half the people I knew were eating some version of a gluten-free diet, and they were all talking about spaghetti squash. Determined to leave no gourd unturned, I sought out [continue reading]
Valley Bounty: Quince
Oct
8
2016
What is a quince, anyway? If you shop at certain specialty grocers, you may have seen this weird-looking cousin of apples and pears popping up in recent years. Truth be told, quinces have been grown in New England since colonial times — they were a bountiful source of pectin, the fruit-derived polysaccharide needed for making [continue reading]
Valley Bounty: Pears
Oct
1
2016
We tend to think of pears as the also-ran fall fruit, the apple’s palatable but less absorbing relative: the Frank Stallone to the apple’s Sly, the Donnie Wahlberg to the apple’s Mark, etc. I’m inclined to think that this is because we’ve allowed the similarities between the two to eclipse their differences in our minds. [continue reading]
Valley Bounty: Eggplant
Sep
24
2016
There’s a role that players on baseball teams occasionally fill called a “utility player”, meaning that, unlike most players, they routinely play a variety of different positions. Their value to the team comes from their adaptability to whatever the team happens to need at the moment.
I’m going to call eggplant a “utility vegetable”. [continue reading]
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Valley Bounty: Cantaloupe
Sep
17
2016
Local melon season is short and sweet here in the Valley. It seems like almost as soon as local cantaloupe start showing up at farmers’ markets and farm stands, their season is already starting to wind down. And in a year when local stone fruit are mostly missing from the harvest, the opportunity to savor [continue reading]
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