Food Grows in Northampton!

Fuel and food price increases, climate change, lack of access to healthy, safe food, economic insecurity, loss of farmland to development… these are some of the problems we seek to address by strengthening our local food system. As people realize these dangers and work to address them, we see food being grown closer to where it is consumed. People are using their lawns, porches, and roofs to grown food. The number of urban and suburban farms is on the rise. This week we bring you produce from two farms located within the city of Northampton, Town Farm and Montview Neighborhood Farm.

These two farms are located side by side, on the edge of town, within a residential neighborhood. The Montview Neighborhood Farm is a small-scale organic farm, located on 3 acres of city-owned conservation land. They use hand tools and human power to grow their crops. Town Farm runs a 200 member CSA program. As well as an 1.6 acre homestead site, they also lease several larger fields in the city’s agricultural region, know as the meadows. Members and customers can often walk or bike these two farms to get their produce, adding a new meaning to the term locally grown!