Farmers in the Berkshires are adapting and planning for future impacts of climate change. Solutions depend on the farm size, food farmed, factors like the type of soil, and financial
Don Zasada always enjoyed rural life, but it took him years to find his niche in agriculture â growing organic produce to sell through a community-supported agriculture program.
As a youth, Zasada worked on dairy farms near Bridgeport, New York, and realized dairying was not a good fit for him.
âIt was incredibly hard work where you made hardly any money,â he said. âI wanted to get as far away from that as possible.â
Little did he realize at the time that his yen to get away would take him to far-flung places like Chile and not-so-far locales such as Williamstown, Massachusetts, where he now lives.