Farmer Spotlight

A bumble bee pollinating flowers in the UMass Permaculture garden.  The UMass Permaculture Initiative is a cutting-edge sustainability program managed by Xochiquetzal Salazar that provides empowering hands-on education for students […]

Fresh Fungi Ally Oyster mushrooms.  Fungi Ally grows fresh, organic mushrooms year round in Hadley, MA and provides a sustainable, medicinal, and nutrient dense protein source for our local community.

Roberto Laurens petting a High Lawn Farm Jersey cow. [Image by Keith Toffling]  High Lawn Farm is a family-owned dairy farm located in Lee, MA in their 97th year of

Dan and Bonita Conlon, owners of Warm Colors Apiary, in front of their pollinator plants. [Image by Keith Toffling]  Warm Colors Apiary, owned by Dan and Bonita Conlon, is located

Silver, one of Maple Valley Creamery’s cows grazing in the pasture.  Maple Valley Creamery, located in Hadley, MA is a dairy farm that produces premium ice cream using their own

Kielbasa Orchards and their stunning view of the Holyoke Mountain Range.  Kielbasa Orchards is a small apple orchard located in Amherst, MA that has been in the family for four

Little Leaf Farm’s greenhouse in Devens, MA.  Little Leaf Farms is a three-acre greenhouse operation run by Paul Sellew, Pieter Slaman, and Tim Cunniff in Devens, Massachusetts. Little Leaf Farms

Queen’s Greens greenhouses.  Queen’s Greens, a charming farm in Amherst, MA, grows certified organic greens, herbs, and vegetables year-round on 30 acres of fields and greenhouses. Although it is rare

Atlas Farm tomatoes.  MA Atlas Farm is an organic vegetable farm in its thirteenth year of operation, located just eleven miles from UMass in Deerfield, MA, and grows a variety

The L’Etoile family in one of the their grain fields.  Located in Northfield, Massachusetts with breathtaking views of the Connecticut river and the surrounding hillsides is Four Star Farms, a

UMass Student Farmers.  It has been a full year since we have focused on UMass Student Farm, but for them, it has proved to be a successful one. A new

Apple Walnut Wild Rice with Cold Spring apples served in the Dining Commons for Apple Week.  Cold Spring Orchard is a research and education facility of UMass Amherst located just

Tara, Pete, and their five children  We last spoke with our partners at PT Farm for Farmer of the Week eighteen months ago. Any farmer will tell you that farms

Preparing spiralized butternut squash at the Taste of UMass event on 4/7/16.  We checked in with Joe Czajkowski, our largest local farm partner to find out what’s been happening on

We are revisiting a local farm that we originally featured in our Farmer of the Week program over fifteen months ago – Diemand Farm in Wendell, MA –  to find