PITTSFIELD Running any venture alone can be difficult, but sometimes it s even harder in a partnership, where the leadership responsibilities are split evenly between two people. It s not always
BAV Helping Farmers & Food Producers With Funding And Grants
Berkshire Agricultural Ventures (BAV) has announced that in the five years since their founding they have offered more than one million in funding to farmers and food producers in the Berkshires, Columbia, and Dutchess Counties in New York, and Litchfield County, Connecticut.
This includes twenty-four direct loans through their Revolving Loan Fund which offers flexible 0-2% interest loans. Capital within the Revolving Loan Fund is continuously recycled, creating a viable and reliable stream of support for agricultural entrepreneurs.
Through BAV’s grant fund, the Resilience Fund, they have awarded over thirty grants. This fund started in response to Covid-19 and the pandemic’s exacerbated effects on food producers in the area.
PITTSFIELD, Mass. — After a year running their Virtual Farmers Market, Roots Rising announced that their in-person Pittsfield Farmers Market is back. The opening of the.
PITTSFIELD After running the Pittsfield Farmers Market virtually for a year, Roots Rising will open the event s outdoor season by holding a live, in-person event on May 15.
SHEFFIELD â Isabella Cardinali Kemp is passionate about local food, composting and recycling. Anything that makes the Earth cleaner.
Now, the Mount Everett Regional High School senior is âsuper excitedâ to spread her passion in the larger community with a virtual series of six speakers to expand on problems and household solutions for water-quality declines, the importance of local food and âthe interconnectivity of soil.â
Kemp, 18, had this idea, and she and Cecelia Caldwell, 17, got cracking during the coronavirus pandemic to line up six influential speakers for the free âSustainable Speaker Series â Our Relationship to Land and Water: Conversations with Local and National Sustainability Leaders,â which begins at 5:30 p.m. Friday with a talk about sustainable systems on college campuses by Ezra Small, the campus sustainability manager at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst, and a Mount Everett alumnus.