Agriculture

Jori Lewis is an award–winning journalist who writes about agriculture and the environment. Her new book "Slaves for Peanuts: A Story of Conquest, Liberation, and a Crop That Changed History," weaves together the natural and human history of a crop that transformed the lives of millions. Americans consume over 1.5 billion pounds of peanut products every year. But few of us know the peanut’s tumultuous history, or its intimate connection to slavery and freedom.

Hancock Shaker Village is a landmark destination with 20 historic Shaker buildings, and thousands of Shaker artifacts. On the National Historic Register, it is the most comprehensively interpreted Shaker site in the world, and the oldest working farm in the Berkshires of Western Massachusetts. The 20th Anniversary of Hancock Shaker Village’s Baby Animals Festival opens tomorrow - Saturday, April 16. I went there earlier this week and met with Director and CEO Jennifer Trainer Thompson and Livestock Manager, Christine McCue.

The New York Farm Bureau outlined its national priorities this week.

The New York Farm Bureau is outlining its national priorities for 2022.

A Berkshire County agricultural nonprofit has received almost $1 million in federal grants from the United States Department of Agriculture.

Alix and David Becker celebrated their first season as Hudson Valley farmers with a late September Saturday afternoon “Fiesta del Campo” party at their farm, Farmstead Hudson Valley, in Stuyvesant, NY. There was much to celebrate.

The Massachusetts Agricultural Commissioner is scheduled to tour four farms in Berkshire County Tuesday.John Lebeaux will be joined by members of the…

Dan Glickman was a Jewish kid from Kansas, son of self-made, entrepreneurial parents and a grandson of Russian and Eastern European immigrants. He ended…

Vermont Lieutenant Governor Molly Gray has been holding a series of themed roundtables to bring attention to what she says are critical issues for the…