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Pine Hill Orchards store contains all the supplies needed to make hard cider.

Pine Hill Orchard supplies the know-how, ingredients to create hard cider at home

by Cris Carl For the RecorderNovember 15, 2021

Debra Cootware works on a nature scene in her Greenfield home studio.

Home-based projects are part of an artful journey

by Eveline Macdougall For the RecorderNovember 8, 2021

Preservation Orchard is diversifying into chestnuts, among other crops.

Valley Bounty: It starts with apples, but Preservation Orchard diversifying

by Jacob Nelson For the RecorderNovember 2, 2021

Will Thayer points out the different food in the root cellar.

Tried and true methods for preserving the harvest

by Cris Carl For the RecorderNovember 2, 2021

Tom Sullivan of Pollinators Welcome shares information with students in an Erving Elementary School classroom during a 2018 program.

Local schools work with Nolumbeka Project to nurture pollinators

by Eveline Macdougall For the RecorderOctober 26, 2021

Huntington resident Lisa Fortin has founded her own yarn business after obtaining more than 600 pounds of wool from farms around Franklin County that were going to be composted.

‘Sweater farmer’ recycles 600 pounds of wool and launches yarn business

by Chris Larabee Staff WriterOctober 15, 2021

Greenfield resident Isabel Miller converted a pair of jeans into a halter top with lacing in the back.

Greenfield teen designs clothing, fashions a life

by Eveline Macdougall For The RecorderOctober 11, 2021

Hayden Rouse, right, and fiancee Melissa Binette, of Pine Ridge Estates in Greenfield have grown a sunflower that as of Sept. 30 was 20 feet, 2 inches tall. Rouse said Great Pumpkin Commonwealth, a nonprofit organization with a mission of cultivating throughout the world the hobby of growing giant pumpkins, has told him he has set the record for the tallest sunflower grown in Massachusetts, besting the record held by Rouse’s friend, Henry Swenson, of Topsfield. This photo was taken on Oct. 4.

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Here comes the sun(flower): Greenfield residents’ plant is 20 feet tall

by Domenic Poli Staff WriterOctober 5, 2021

From left, Ellis Hayman, 6 and Jojo Hayman, 9, members of the Pleasant Street EggShare Co-op, hold hens outside the Greenfield Farmers Market.

A cooperative effort to raise egg-laying hens

by Cris Carl For the RecorderOctober 4, 2021

These photographs were taken one day apart. On the top image, the outer disk florets of the top and bottom flower heads have started to change from yellow to magenta, while the disk of the upper right flower head (circled) has gone from mostly yellow to mostly magenta.

Earth Matters: A different kind of fall color change

by David Spector For the RecorderOctober 4, 2021