The funds from the Local Farmer Awards help farmers make infrastructure improvements to expand their businesses and compete in the marketplace.
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Mighty No Bitey, Berkshire organic bug spray, heads to the Oscars
With 50 stores and Big Y stocking Mighty No Bitey, its creator, Terri See, had to start bottling in a Monterey church basement, but that’s not going to cut it from here on out.
Bits & Bytes: Howard Dean at Williams; Winter Studio Festival of Plays; ‘Who Was Festus Campbell?”; 2017 Local Farmer Awards applications; ‘The Perils of the Petrolette’
The Local Farmer Awards provide local farmers with monetary support for equipment and physical farm improvements that will help them compete in the marketplace.
Big Y selling plastic bags in Great Barrington despite town ban
The new bags are made of a thicker and sturdier plastic material and are printed with such phrases as “thank you for reusing this bag.”
Bits & Bytes: Native American Festival; the Skivvies at the Colonial; Diane Taraz at the Bidwell House; expansion grant for CHP; 2016 Local Farmer Awards
The goal of the Local Farmer Awards is to strengthen farmers’ abilities to compete in the marketplace so that the region benefits from the environmental, health, and economic advantages of local farming.
Bits & Bytes: Ramsdell Library Sunday hours; anti-pipeline concert fundraiser; 2016 Farm Awards
The 11-week program at Ramsdell Library will include regular library services as well as special events such as films, workshops, book discussions and readings.
Life on The Edge: Dispatch from the Multitasking Desk
Although we think we’re doing several things at once, multitasking, this is a powerful and diabolical illusion. Multitasking makes us significantly less efficient; as much as 40 percent less productive.
Rites of spring
Twenty years ago, in 1994, there were only 1,755 farmers’ markets in the U.S. By 2013 the number had jumped to 8,144, and this year promises even more.