On The Farm: A Closed Loop

Explore Natick Community Organic Farm and meet the Farmers that work there in the pilot episode of this 12 part series. On The Farm is a documentary web series that
Great Friends Garden, photo by Bevan Linsley

A Community Garden For Newport?

How we built a stunningly beautiful community garden in 100 days When I think back to how we decided to build a first community garden in Newport, it seems that
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New Report Reveals Farm to Institution Trends in Food Distribution

This piece was originally posted by Erica Houskeeper on UVM Food Feed.  A new research report from Farm to Institution New England (FINE) surveyed food distributors to gather their perspectives on institutional
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Tackling Wicked Problems in Food Systems: NESAWG’s 2016 It Takes a Region Conference

The Northeast Sustainable Agriculture Working Group (NESAWG)’s It Takes a Region Conference brings together farm and food systems practitioners across the 12-state Northeast region to learn, debate, collaborate, and innovate solutions to critical food
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Strategies to Support Local Food in Rhode Island

This post was originally published on the UNH Sustainability Institute blog. This past Friday, July 29, I had the pleasure of visiting Rhode Island to gain a better understanding of
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Faces of Food Systems Planning: Mary Chicoine Praus

This post was originally published on the American Planning Association Food Systems Planning Interest Group’s website. Mary Chicoine Praus is a Land Use Planner at Franklin Regional Council of Governments in Greenfield, Massachusetts. The
Rajiv (@rajivkkhanna) - "Farmer Bill Best showing beans at SMAC. He has a seed bank of 700 bean varieties! #Berea #SAFSF16"

The Real Work

Just a few weeks after Food Solutions New England (FSNE)’s Summit VI in Bridgeport, Connecticut, I was lucky enough to attend the Sustainable Agriculture and Food Systems Funders‘[1] (SAFSF) annual
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Values-Driven Fisheries, Strength in Numbers!

This post comes from Dawn Tucker with End-O-Main Lobster and fishing family out of Wickford, Rhode Island and was originally posted on the Northwest Atlantic Marine Alliance blog.  My name is Dawn (McAlister)
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Growing a New Food Economy at CommonBound

How do we support community self-determination and sovereignty?  It was a question that was posed at the Opening Plenary at CommonBound 2016 in Buffalo, NY.  The conference, which ran from

The Impact of Institutional Sales on Massachusetts Farms

www.massfarmtoschool.org/2016/05/09/announcing-the-release-of-the-impact-of-institutional-sales-on-massachusetts-farms/