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A ruby-throated hummingbird rests for a moment after being banded before flying off.

Earth Matters: Hummingbirds part of intricate web of relationships

by David Spector For the RecorderJune 21, 2021

Sadie’s Bikes along the canal in Turners Falls repairs and sells used bicycles.

The basics of home bike maintenance

by Cris Carl For the RecorderJune 16, 2021

Nancy D’Amato by the stump that she has planted with columbine and other Sedums at the North Amherst Library garden. “I just think it has coalesced into a soup of interesting mix of colors and shapes. It either applies to you are you think what a pointless mess,” said D’Amato.

Get Growing with Mickey Rathbun: A garden for all to enjoy

by Mickey Rathbun For the RecorderJune 8, 2021

Nat Ross, the greenhouse manager at the UMass student farm, hoes onions at the UMass Crop and Animal Research and Education Farm in South Deerfield earlier this week. Ross is a sustainable farming major.

Cultivating a farm family: UMass Amherst Farm students learn the ropes together

by Veronica Moore For the Recorder, Ethan Smith For the Recorder, and Tristan Smith For the RecorderJune 3, 2021

The ordering board at Flayvors of Cook Farm, on South Maple Street in Hadley.

Valley Bounty: Hadley’s ‘Flayvors’ is all about family — and the cows

by Jacob Nelson For the RecorderJune 3, 2021

Harper Keehn sharpening a knife.

Sharpening knives for more efficient cutting

by Cris Carl For the RecorderJune 1, 2021

A mock-up of the new off-the-grid home, called “Stone’s Throw,” that will be built into the hill below Sue Bridge’s existing cottage in Conway.

Self-sustaining Conway community ‘stretches the envelope’ of building possibilities

by Ella Adams For the RecorderMay 29, 2021

Freshly harvested young ginger, grown on a large scale at Old Friends Farm.

Valley Bounty: Old Friends Farm found way to get the food out

by Jacob Nelson For the RecorderMay 26, 2021

Hadley Town Hall

Plans pitched for agrivoltaic system, storage buildings in Hadley

by Scott Merzbach Staff WriterMay 25, 2021

Jerry Howes and his brother, Kenneth “Trudge” Howes, stand at the wood splitter at the Howes Family Farm in Cummington, where they cut and deliver cords of wood to customers. The brothers have been running the farm, in the family since the 1950s, since the 1980s.

Farming is in their blood: Brothers have kept Howes Family Farm humming through the years

by Bera Dunau Staff WriterMay 19, 2021