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By JACOB NELSON

With considerable effort from organizers, a new winter farmers market is coming to Hadley this year. Located on the grounds of Wancyzk Nursery at 166 Russell St, it will run every Saturday from 10 to 2. The market will offer local farms and businesses...

Suzanne Kurtis of Florence said her niece and nephew, Amy and Marc, have been honing their charcuterie skills over the past couple of years and created this platter for her family’s Thanksgiving gathering this year. How to enter: Snap a pic of...

By CHRIS LARABEE

SUNDERLAND — Nestled in the former Dove’s Nest restaurant, a new deli is steadily gaining traction.Across from Cliffside Apartments and sharing a plaza with Frontier Pizza, resident Hilda Bailey has been whipping up all sorts of food at Banchan Korean...

By ALEXANDER MACDOUGALL

EASTHAMPTON — Restaurant chain Local Burger plans to open a fourth eatery next month when it takes over the former Riff’s Joint space in Easthampton. Local Burger, with locations in Northampton, Haydenville, and the New Hampshire town of Keene, serves...

By EMILEE KLEIN

HOLYOKE — The Holyoke Community Cupboard, United Way of Pioneer Valley’s newest food pantry with Holyoke Community College, seeks to tackle stigmas of emergency food supplies by offering refrigerated and frozen staples to anyone who needs to...

By DOMENIC POLI

Don’t worry, radio personality Christopher “Monte” Belmonte will still push a shopping cart 43 miles from Springfield to Greenfield to raise money to combat food insecurity. The journey will simply have a different name.This year marks the first March...

By JAMES PENTLAND

NORTHAMPTON — While extremist Republicans in Congress are trying to gut programs that provide food to those in need, Massachusetts could become the first state to end hunger, U.S. Rep. Jim McGovern told a special state commission on agriculture...

By ALEXANDER MACDOUGALL

NORTHAMPTON — A stove and oven, along with a 36-inch grill and deep fryers, are just some of the equipment inside Smith Vocational and Agricultural High School’s new food truck, which launched on Wednesday, staffed by students in the school’s culinary...

By MADDIE FABIAN

NORTHAMPTON — With a sunny forecast and a schedule packed with agricultural events, music, motor sport activities, food and local art, the 206th Three County Fair is set to kick off Friday and run through Labor Day on Monday.First been held in 1818,...

By SOPHIE HAUCK

AMHERST — The University of Massachusetts Amherst has won bragging rights for having the best campus food in the country for the seventh consecutive time, the Princeton Review determined, based on feedback from college students across the country.The...

By CHRIS LISINSKI

BOSTON — A group of pork producers who want to block new livestock regulations in Massachusetts will get a chance to go before a judge, but not until after many of the new policies that were already targeted in a prior lawsuit take effect.U.S....

By MADDIE FABIAN

BOSTON — Food access and insecurity, farmland and economic development top the list of priorities for the current legislative session for the Food System Caucus, one of the largest caucuses in the Massachusetts Legislature that’s co-chaired by Sen....

By MERCY LINGLE

NORTHAMPTON — In the community garden at Hampshire Heights, there is a two-person bench, perfect for tenants to sit on and watch as bees pollinate their plants. The garden is modestly sized but hosts an ecosystem of flowers, vegetables, herbs,...

By MARY BYRNE

Dozens of superintendents, including a handful from Hampshire and Franklin counties, have signed a letter to lawmakers urging them to make permanent the universal meals program School Meals for All, rather than just extend it for another year.“Being a...

By JULIAN MENDOZA

SOUTH DEERFIELD — In an effort to combat food insecurity throughout the Pioneer Valley, Atlas Farm has more than doubled the number of stops its traveling produce shop will make in Franklin County this season.Atlas Farm’s Mobile Market, housed inside...

Molly Hale of Florence made this spinach and asparagus roulade with her own homegrown asparagus. She said the recipe came from the Gazette several years ago and that the dish is “elegant but easy to make.”How to enter: @Snap a pic of something...

Allison Smith of Northampton submitted this photo of a salad with red bud flowers and a soft boiled egg, which is from her backyard chickens. She calls the dish Red Bud Breakfast and describes it as “a very local meal.”How to enter: @Snap a pic of...

By JACOB NELSON

This week at Brookfield Farm, a community supported agriculture (CSA) farm in Amherst, spring crops continue to take root in freshly tilled fields, gratefully soaking up last week’s rain. Just as they grow — slowly at first, then exploding with life...

Andy Morris-Friedman submitted this photo of local beets from the Winter Farmers Market at Hampshire Mall. He said he was preparing the beets for a pot luck when the sun came out and flooded his work space. The light “made the colors come alive,”...

By CHRIS LARABEE

DEERFIELD — Since the Clark family helped Community Involved in Sustaining Agriculture get on its feet decades ago, the experience has come full circle, with Clarkdale Fruit Farms receiving an award from the nonprofit earlier this month.The...