Massachusetts Food System Collaborative
Massachusetts Food System Collaborative

Tag: Greenfield

Real Pickles runs an energy-efficient, cooperative processing business

Greenfield’s Real Pickles is a real success story and a model for increasing energy efficiency and the use of renewable energy. Founder Dan Rosenberg and his wife Addie Rose Holland have run their business with social and ecological responsibility always in the forefront. Founded in 2001, their delicious, northeast-grown and -distributed fermented vegetable business outgrew […]

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Town-owned land leased to successful community farm

Town farms – or poor farms – provided a support system for society’s poor in the 1800s through the mid-1900s in New England. Often on the outskirts of town, the poor farm provided a sense of purpose for paupers who then provided labor for the farm. Just such a poor farm was owned by the […]

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