Since 2005, Connecticut’s innovative Community Investment Act (CIA) has been working to strengthen the role Connecticut farms play in providing access to healthy food, a clean environment, and sustainable communities. The innovative law provides farm business improvements, farmland protection, dairy support, open space and historic preservation, and affordable housing.
Senate President Pro Tempore Don Williams
Continue reading Exhibit Celebrates Six-Years of Connecticut’s Community Investment Act
“It’s easy—you just say no,” Victor Martino told me when I asked him about the pressure from housing developers on farmers in California’s Central Valley. Martino’s family farm, Bella Viva Orchards, is only 100 miles from the Bay Area, where he sells his dried fruits to customers at Ferry Plaza and other popular farmers markets.
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Continue reading Snackin’ for a Cause
Massachusetts dairy farmers don’t have the land base to expand into 1,000 or 2,000 cow herds, according to Peter Melnik, a fourth-generation dairyman from Deerfield. Instead, he believes diversity is the key to preserving his family’s 250-cow farm.
In search of that diversity, Melnik and four other dairies are embarking on a methane digester project with
Continue reading Massachusetts Dairyman Turns Manure into Energy and Fertilizer
On the outskirts of Wenatchee, a city in the heart of central Washington where golden hills surround endless miles of irrigated fruit orchards, a large apple-shaped sign reads, “Apple Capital of the World.” In a region that ships over 100 million boxes of apples a year around the nation and the world, education has been
Continue reading Education Helps Limon and Sons Orchard in Washington Go Natural
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