Nearly 100 wildfires reported in the month of August. Smaller-than-usual crops. Browning, crunchy lawns and a constellation of restrictions on how households should use water.Welcome to the drought of 2022 in Massachusetts, which continues to worsen.
MONTAGUE With another hot day on the horizon, farmer Ryan Voiland spent part of one morning last week hauling a can of gas down a steep embankment behind his farm that leads to the Connecticut River, where he’s set up an irrigation pump to draw.
MONTAGUE With another hot day on the horizon, farmer Ryan Voiland spent part of Wednesday morning hauling a can of gas down a steep embankment behind his farm that leads to the Connecticut River, where he’s set up an irrigation pump to draw.