On a recent November morning about a dozen people are at Atlas Farm, in Deerfield, Massachusetts. They have about an hour before a van arrives to collect 100 bags — huge bags — of lettuce . The ...
On a sunny, breezy day food bank volunteers gathered to glean a kale field. Gleaning, according to Farm to Food Bank Program Manager Amy Cawley, is the practice of picking produce left behind a farmer ...
SUNDERLAND — They came to Laurenitis Farm bearing reusable bags and cardboard boxes. A killing frost had set upon the land weeks before, shriveling sugar pumpkin vines, leaving orange gourds dotting a ...