National Carrot Cake Day: Where to get the best carrot cake in western Massachusetts

CHICOPEE, Mass. (WWLP) – Saturday is National Carrot Cake Day, which is one of America’s favorite cake flavors. According to the National Day Calender, this cake closely resembles a quick bread from its preparation to its final consistency, as it is a mix of wet and dry ingredients that are made separately before combining. Creamy frosting, … Read more

NEPM: Barstow’s Longview Farm – Fabulous 413

Listen to the interview on CISA’s Website HERE.  Denise Barstow Manz of Barstow’s Longview Farm, Diary Store, and Bakery in Hadley joins Phil, Monte, and Kaliis to talk about their farm and the significance of this moment for local farms around the region. Barstow’s has your last minute holiday gift and goodie needs covered! See their bakery … Read more

Vanguard Renewables: A Farm-Driven Circular Solution

Vanguard Renewables partners with leading food and beverage companies to recycle food and beverage waste on multi-generational dairy farms across the country to make renewable energy via anaerobic digestion. Vanguard has a long-standing partnership with Barstow’s Longview Farm, a seventh-generation family farm and member-owner of the Cabot Creamery Cooperative, to host one of Vanguard’s Farm … Read more

On front lines of climate change: Farmers work to mitigate their climate impacts and become more resilient

November 18, 2023 Posted in: Climate Change and Farming Blog, CISA News, Press Room Published November 18, 2023 in the Daily Hampshire Gazette and Greenfield Recorder By Jacob Nelson It’s hard to throw water on a burning house while trying to rebuild it at the same time, but that’s exactly what addressing climate change requires. … Read more

Amherst Chamber’s 43rd annual A+ awards to focus on agriculture

Daily Hampshire Gazette By SCOTT MERZBACH Staff Writer Published: 10/23/2023 2:10:34 PM Modified: 10/23/2023 2:09:12 PM AMHERST — Amherst’s last dairy farm, which lost the stable for its 50 milking cows and their milk house to a fire in June, and a Hadley dairy farm that uses technology to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and improve … Read more

Hitchcock Heroes Sustainable Business Award: Barstow’s Longview Farm

Hitchcock Harvest Feast and Celebration Sunday, October 1st, 2023 3:00 PM – 6:00 PM The Hitchcock Center has been sowing seeds of change and educating for a healthy planet in the Valley for more than 60 years. In October 2023, we celebrated the harvest with local friends and businesses and shared what we are brewing … Read more

The 30 Essential Restaurants in the Pioneer Valley, Home of the Five College Consortium

Where to find peak-season veggie melts, hand-pulled biang biang noodles, Moroccan beef hash, Cap’n Crunch-battered chicken tenders, miso apple cake, and more by Nat Belkov Aug 8, 2023, 9:00am EDT EATER There’s an urban legend surrounding the Five College Consortium that each school — Amherst, Smith, Mount Holyoke, and Hampshire Colleges, as well as the … Read more

Surprise siblings: Barstow’s Longview Farm cow has rare triplet calves, all who survived birth

Daily Hampshire Gazette By SCOTT MERZBACH Staff Writer Published: 8/6/2023 10:40:01 AM Modified: 8/6/2023 10:39:48 AM HADLEY — Each weighing just 35 pounds or less at birth, but getting bigger each day, Nichelino, Naples and Novara are among the newest heifer calves at Barstow’s Longview Farm. While numerous calves are being raised in the calf … Read more

HOLY COW! Rare Triplets Born At Barstow’s Longview Farm

HADLEY, Mass. (WBZNewsRadio) – It’s incredibly rare with roughly one out of every 105,000 pregnant cows giving birth to triplets, but those odds have arrived at Barstow’s Longview Farm in Hadley. The farm said they’ve only seen the incredibly rare triple-birth just once before and sadly not all the calves survived. “Twins are not uncommon, … Read more

National Cheesecake Day: Where to get the best cheesecake in western Massachusetts

Sunday is National Cheesecake Day! National Cheesecake Day offers a slice of one of America’s favorite desserts, according to the National Day Calendar. A form of the dessert comes up as a recipe served to athletes in ancient Greece. It has been found that the earliest mention of a cheesecake is by Greek physician Aegimus, … Read more

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