In collaboration with CISA Bistro Les Gras will be serving a muli-course dinner with a few of their favorite local farmers and producers featuring the lesser knowns of the our food world. In the spirit of a "Staff Meal", a meal that a restaurant would generally hold for their staff, will be a menu full […]
Join us for a hyper-local special dinner at the height of harvest! Partnering with CISA (Community Involved in Sustaining Agriculture), Belly of the Beast celebrates local women in food with a special multi-course pop-up dinner featuring three local farms with women at the helm: • Caroline Pam (Kitchen Garden Farm, Sunderland, MA) – produce & […]
September 12, 8:30am-6:00pm UMASS Amherst Campus Center In September 2017, all food manufacturers with more than $1 million in annual sales will be required to comply with the Preventive Controls for Human Food regulation of the Food Safety Modernization Act. That means you need to have a "qualified individual" responsible for writing your Food Safety Plan. In […]
When: Tuesday September 12th, 2017, from 4 pm to 7 pm Where: UMass Crop Research and Education Center, 91 River Rd. Deerfield, MA 01373 Join UMass Extension educators and specialists at the UMass Crop Research and Education Center to tour our ongoing research and participate in a roundtable discussion where you can get crop or pest management […]
September 17, 11:00am-5:00pm Rose F Kennedy Greenway The 8th Annual Boston Local Food Festival is quickly approaching, don't miss your chance to reach over 40,000 New Englanders, hungry for local food! As New England's largest Farmers Market, the Festival is ideal for: * Farmers * Local Restaurants * Food Trucks (sold out!) * Specialty […]
If you are a farmer who is thinking about adding new marketing outlets to your farm's line up, come check out this workshop being offered by New Entry in partnership with Mass Farmers Markets and Mass Farm to School. Hope to see you there! Tour a diversified vegetable and livestock farm while learning from Farm […]
(note: this meeting is at the main farm on River Rd, and NOT at the Atlas Farm store on Routes 5 & 10 in S. Deerfield) A functional wash and pack area can improve both workflow and produce safety. FSMA's Produce Rule states that equipment, tools, and buildings must be of adequate design and able […]
Join the Stockbridge School of Agriculture as they highlight campus farms. UMass Student Farm's Amanda Brown and Book & Plow Farm's Maida Ives will share their stories of managing campus farms in the Pioneer Valley, providing food for the institutions in which they are housed, engaging with students and conducting on-farm education and service learning […]