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Walter Kownacki, 90, of South Deerfield sits in his hay wagon on Monday with bales from the day before.

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Hanging onto haying: At 90, South Deerfield farmer still active

by Domenic Poli Staff WriterJune 25, 2019

In this April 19, 2018 photo, Seth Crawford, co-owner of Oregon CBD, displays hemp seeds being prepared for sale to industrial hemp farmers at his facility in Monmouth, Ore. Applications for state licenses to grow hemp, marijuana’s non-intoxicating cousin, have increased more than twentyfold since 2015 and Oregon now ranks No. 2 behind Colorado among the 19 states with hemp cultivation. (AP Photos/Gillian Flaccus)

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House passes bill to help grow hemp industry

by Matt Murphy State House News ServiceJune 20, 2019

FILE - This Thursday, Aug. 2, 2018, file photo shows the U.S. Food and Drug Administration building behind FDA logos at a bus stop on the agency's campus in Silver Spring, Md. The Food and Drug Administration’s first broad testing of food for a worrisome class of nonstick, stain-resistant industrial compounds found high levels in some grocery store meats and seafood and in off-the-shelf chocolate cake, according to unreleased findings FDA researchers presented at a scientific conference...

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FDA food sampling finds contamination by ‘forever chemicals’

by Ellen Knickmeyer Associated Press, John Flesher Associated Press, and Michael Casey Associated PressJune 3, 2019

Bridge Street School first graders, from left, Joseph Howard, Louis Phipps and Desmond Corriveau-Roche examine a caterpillar cocoon during a pollinator garden design workshop at the Northampton elementary.

They dig it! Students at Bridge Street School help design a pollinator garden

by Mickey Rathbun For the Gazette May 31, 2019

Fire crews on the scene of a detached garage fire on a farm in Hatfield, May 23, 2019.

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Hatfield farm garage, workshop collapses after fire

by Erin ONeill Digital Audience EditorMay 24, 2019

Lisa Quinones, of Easthampton, takes a bunch of rainbow chard from Ross Hackerson, owner of Gray Dog's Farm in Huntington, at the Easthampton Farmers Market in 2017.

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Easthampton Farmers and Makers Market returns Saturday

by Luis Fieldman Staff Writer May 22, 2019

Tammy Sapowsky finishes setting up her farmstand at the South Hadley Farmers Market, August 2, 2018.

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South Hadley Farmers Market canceled for season

by Jacquelyn Voghel Staff WriterMay 16, 2019

Members of the Pioneer Valley Workers Center pose for a photo on property owned by the city of Northampton and Kestrel Land Trust, where the center will soon create a worker-run farming cooperative.

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Pioneer Valley Workers Center starting farm co-op

by Dusty Christensen Staff WriterMay 16, 2019

Harrison Bardwell, middle, gives Congressman Jim McGovern, left, and Philip Korman, executive director of Community Involved in Sustaining Agriculture, a tour of his farm Aug. 23, 2017.

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Massachusetts grants $1M for farm equipment to fight climate change

by Matt Berg May 2, 2019

The interior of the greenhouse at Pioneer Gardens at 198 Mill Village Road in Deerfield.

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Pioneer Gardens sells greenhouse, land for $3M

by Domenic Poli Staff WriterApril 9, 2019