Pete and Gerrys
This week, we are featuring a farm that you might have heard of before. You can find Pete and Gerry’s Organic Eggs in grocery stores all across New England. That fact […]
Fun with Food Fest
Who said kids shouldn’t play with their food? This November, UMass Dining staff and about two dozen UMass students visited Lambert-Lavoie Memorial Elementary School in Chicopee for the Fun with Food
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The Diemand Family
With Thanksgiving right around the corner, it’s time to celebrate our local turkey supplier, Diemand Farm! Located in Wendell, MA (15 miles north of Amherst), Diemand Farm is run by siblings
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David and Matt Shearer
Date: 11/11/2014 Pine Hill Orchards, located 30 minutes north of Amherst in Colrain, MA, is a 75 acre orchard run by David and Matt Shearer. Of course, apples make up a
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Anna Hankins
Anna Hankins is a second year student at UMass Amherst paving her own path through education by combining both classroom learning and organizing work. Anna enjoys being agitated about food
Twin Oaks Farm
Edwin Matuszko, Linda Kingsley, and their son, Josef, are third and fourth generation farmers of Twin Oaks Farm in Hadley, MA. Since 1979, when Ed and Linda took over the farm,
Pete and Tara Roy
Pete and Tara Roy are the proud owners of PT Farm in North Haverhill, New Hampshire. Operating a beef and hog farm is not easy work, but it’s not their
New Local Food at Hampshire Dining Hall and Beyond
Over the summer at UMass, while classes were out and the campus was vacant, the university Dining Team was hard at work. As the spring semester came to a close,
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John Smiarowski
In 1950, Teddy C. Smiarowski founded Smiarowski Farm on 70 acres of fertile, sandy loam. Since then, the farm has changed in a number of ways. First, John Smiarowski and his
Amanda Brown
Date: 10/6/2014 This week’s Farmer is UMass’s very own Amanda Brown. Amanda helps UMass students make their passion for growing food for their peers a reality through the UMass Student
Dan and Bonita Conlon
Founded in 2000, Warm Colors Apiary is an 80 acre farm located in South Deerfield, MA, owned and operated by the loving couple Dan and Bonita Conlon. Their farm is
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Localizing UMass-The Chicken Edition
Chicken is one of the most popular food items at UMass, and it is important to think about where we are buying this chicken from. During the next two years,
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What’s the Buzz-Supporting and Sourcing Local Honey
s there anything more sustainable than supporting the very creatures that pollinate the local fruits and vegetables we love so much? We don’t think so! In the 2nd edition of
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There’s Plenty of (Trash) Fish in the Sea
Ever wonder where the fish on your plate comes from? So did we. In our first edition of the UMass Healthy and Sustainable Food System blog series, we’ll take a
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