October 2011 Blog Posts (2)

Grow Food Northampton accepting proposals to lease land until Nov 12

Grow Food Northampton -- accepting proposals for land lease in Florence, MA

The non-profit organization, Grow Food Northampton, Inc. (www.growfoodnorthampton.com) is thrilled to offer up to 60 acres of prime farmland in Florence, MA for lease in early 2012 to farmers who share our vision of sustainable community farming. Through our first call for applications, we selected a vegetable CSA operation, Crimson & Clover, which… Continue

Added by Annie on October 22, 2011 at 2:31pm — No Comments

Are Dreams Dead? I Hope Not!

With the news all full of frustration and anger, is it possible that a dream can still come true?

I hope so, because we have a unique chance to make it happen. But it will take a little help from a lot of people.

Since I started in the field of local food and environmental education I had an image of reusing an old building to create a place where farms could sell their food, consumers could purchase high quality locally grown food and a community could come…

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Added by Patricia Stewart on October 20, 2011 at 9:27pm — No Comments