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Farmers Market brings people, produce to common
Staff Writer
By SCOTT MERZBACH
AMHERST Locally grown produce, cheese, cut flowers, herbs and prepared foods will be available as the Amherst Farmers Market begins its 50th season Saturday.
The market, which again will be on the Town Common instead of in the Spring Street parking lot, runs from 7:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. on Saturdays each week through Nov. 20.
Though COVID-19 protocols are still in place, with masks required and social distancing used to keep people safe, the market is able to start on time this year, unlike last year when it was delayed until after Memorial Day.
Around Amherst: Park work, housing rehab, service programs getting block grant help
By SCOTT MERZBACH
AMHERST Projects to improve access to Groff Park, modernize several affordable apartments and assist local businesses are being funded through an $825,000 Community Development Block Grant.
Amherst officials recently learned that the town will get the money to pay for a new multi-use path on Mill Lane, get the Watson Farms apartments up to current specifications, and have 25 microenterprise businesses receive technical assistance provided by Valley Community Development.
Five service programs are also benefiting, including the food pantry at the Amherst Survival Center, youth mentoring by Big Brothers Big Sisters, housing services for those experiencing homelessness by Amherst Community Connections, family stabilization support from Family Outreach of Amherst and English for Speakers of Other Languages and career preparation assistance for immigrants offered by the Ce
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Anyone who loves to stir-fry or to eat fresh Chinese vegetables like bok choy, knows Chang Farm in Whately, which has been around the Pioneer Valley for 38 years. But what about Jiang Farm in Montague?
Now that 85-year-old Tso-cheng Chang has scaled back his own vegetable production to concentrate on providing for the family’s Amherst Chinese Foods restaurant, the 21-acre operation run by Jiang Farm is selling its array of exotic Asian vegetables at Amherst Farmers Market, in the same spot that Chang Farm had occupied.
But Jiang Farm, which began in 1998 after renting two acres in South Deerfield, sells “99.9 percent” of its Chinese broccoli, pea greens, Asian scallion, bitter melon, Chinese celery, baby bok choy, Asian spinach and other specialty crops to the Boston wholesale market, according to Shao Zhi Kuo, who emigrated in 1990 with her husband, Xin Miao Jiang, from China’s Guangdong (Canton) Province.
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