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CISA's Emergency Farm Fund now available year-round

WAMC
Farmers in western Massachusetts have been whipsawed by extreme weather with record rainfall in July 2021 to critical drought conditions in the summer of 2022.

More than $500,000 has been loaned since the fund was created in 2011

Farmers in western Massachusetts affected by extreme weather events now have a permanent source for financial help.

Community Involved in Sustaining Agriculture (CISA) has announced its Emergency Farm Fund will be open year-round.

In the past, the fund had opened temporarily from time-to-time in response to weather events that widely impacted local agriculture.

WAMC’s Pioneer Valley Bureau Chief Paul Tuthill spoke with Phil Korman, Executive Director of CISA.

The record-setting tenure of Springfield Mayor Domenic Sarno. The 2011 tornado and its recovery that remade the largest city in Western Massachusetts. The fallout from the deadly COVID outbreak at the Holyoke Soldiers Home. Those are just a few of the thousands and thousands of stories WAMC’s Pioneer Valley Bureau Chief Paul Tuthill has covered for WAMC in his nearly 17 years with the station.