Dear Share-Members, Hello, everyone, and Happy Spring! We write to you this afternoon from the rainy and greening fields of Hadley. As April was a relatively dry month here in Western MA, we are ever so grateful for the rain this week, and our newly transplanted crops are as well! If you remember back to…
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Hi Friends, Once again, Next Barn Over is co-sponsoring a terrific benefit dance party to support our region’s local food security. The sponsors of this event are local farmers, educators, and food purveyors who recognize the importance of strengthening food security both at the immediate level through the work of Amherst Survival Center and the…
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Dear Share-Members, Happy Spring, everyone! It seems that this year March is coming in like a lamb—hopefully it will not go out like a lion! Regardless of the weather, however, we have returned to the greenhouse for our 2016 season and are happy to report that we have not only begun seeding, but our mighty…
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Hello dear friends, We’ve found ourselves at the end of another abundant, blessed, demanding farm season. Thank you to all of you, who create the form for this buzzing combination of soil, community, sweat and big vision. Now we have the slower, darker, winter coming our way, and while we agree with you that its always hard to let…
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Hello friends! It’s cold!! We had our first frost Saturday night, and a very intense frost of 21 degrees last night. We’ve been running around putting row cover down. The extreme low is cold enough to destroy even some of the more frost tolerant crops like lettuce, cilantro, fennel, and celeriac, so we have covered as much…
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