Busier than usual: Farms, farmers’ markets adjusted to pandemic in 2020
Peter Kretzenger of Turners Falls, right, makes a sale at the Great Falls Farmers Market in Peskeomskut Park in Turners Falls in June 2020. STAFF FILE PHOTO/PAUL FRANZ
Jeff Kingsbury of Kingsbury Farms in Deerfield selling fruit and vegetables at the Great Falls Farmers Market in Peskeomskut Park in Turners Falls in June 2020. STAFF FILE PHOTO/PAUL FRANZ
The Great Falls Farmers Market in Peskeomskut Park in Turners Falls in June 2020. STAFF FILE PHOTO/PAUL FRANZ
The Great Falls Farmers Market in Peskeomskut Park in Turners Falls in June 2020. STAFF FILE PHOTO/PAUL FRANZ
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Thanks to partnership, program resumes hot meals in Orange
Franklin County Community Meals Program Executive Director Rachel Berggren and Hillside Organic Catering co-owner Patrick O’Hearn outside the rear entrance to the Orange Armory, where hot meals and packaged foods are handed out on Thursdays from 5 to 5:30 p.m. STAFF PHOTO/ZACK DELUCA
Hillside Organic Catering has partnered with the Franklin County Community Meals Program to provide hot, prepared meals at the Orange Armory each Thursday. Last week involved pulled pork macaroni and cheese with a side salad for 50 people. STAFF PHOTO/ZACK DELUCA
Hillside Organic Catering has partnered with the Franklin County Community Meals Program to provide hot, prepared meals at the Orange Armory each Thursday. Last week involved pulled pork macaroni and cheese with a side salad for 50 people.
ORANGE Thanks to a new partnership with local restaurants, the Franklin County Community Meals Program has been able to resume serving hot meals to those in need in Orange for the first time since the COVID-19 pandemic began.Franklin County.
We’re about a month away from the year anniversary when COVID-19 took hold, sickening and killing so many and upending our lives in unimaginable ways. Now, people are anxiously waiting for a vaccine, herd immunity and hopefully a return to.