Produced by Images Cinema, in collaboration with Storey Publishing and the Williams College Center for Environmental Studies, this annual film festival explores the ways farming and food culture impacts our lives in rich and varied ways, and makes links to local farmers and food producers. This year Fresh Fest will happen virtually this year, on Images Virtual Cinema platform, watch.eventive.org/imagesvirtual. All films are free to view and will be available for the full week with the exception of Gather, which will be available for one show only, TBA. This year features a world premiere of Finding Hope in Farmland, a short film by Williamstown-based filmmaking team, director Dave Simonds and producer Sarah Gardner, about a Somali Bantu community starting a farm in upstate New York. The festival also includes The Long Coast, about Maine s changing fishing industry; Fruits of Labor, a documentary about a Mexican American high school student who supports her
May 03, 2021 | 02:22AM
As it nears the end of its inaugural year and faces the first departure of a founding member, the town s diversity committee Monday reflected on the importance of the discussions it has had and the perspectives it has centered in the town s conversation. click for more
April 30, 2021 | 02:15AM
The board has proposed four zoning changes to June s annual town meeting, where each will need a two-thirds majority vote for passage. click for more
April 29, 2021 | 04:16AM
On what promises to be the most controversial issue up for discussion, the board broke with the Planning Board, voting 4-1 against recommendation of the cannabis cultivation bylaw that the planners focused on for the past year.
Section I
Section I - Partnership and Project StafF
The partnership for this project includes the North Adams Public Schools, Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts, and Williams College. All three institutions are located within 10 miles of one another in the far northwest corner of Massachusetts. The populations of Williamstown and North Adams were 7,754 and 13,708 respectively in 2010. We are about an hour away from the nearest metropolitan area (Albany, NY).
The North Adams Public Schools serves 1500 students in three K-7 schools and one 8-12 high school. Fifty percent of our students are from low income backgrounds. Twenty-five percent are students with disabilities. Seventeen percent are students of color, and only about 1% are
Podcast Archive
Laura Davis, Northeast Organic Farming Association/ Massachusetts Chapter, Organic Certification
Assistance Coordinator and Soil Technical Advisor (podcast)
1/31/19
Cows Save the Planet: Soil, climate, and the promise of regenerative agriculture Judith D. Schwartz, Journalist and Author of “Cows Save the Planet” and “Water in Plain Sight” (podcast)
2/7/19
Julia Freedgood, America Farmland Trust, Assistant Vice President of Programs (podcast)
2/14/19
2/21/19
James Mayer, Grateful Greens, Farmer (podcast)
2/28/19
Trevor Mance, TAM Organics LLC, Owner (podcast)
3/7/19
Land Rich, Dirt Poor: Dairy Farming in New England
Sarah Gardner, Williams College Center for Environmental Studies, Associate Director and Lecturer in Environmental Studi