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Jan. 13, 2025: Growing CARE

We’re off to the farm again, but this time we’re heading to Hatfield to learn about innovative care in agriculture that helps folx nationwide, and western Massachusetts is right at the epicenter this week.

In the last decade, ServiceNet’s Prospect Meadow Farm program has expanded to three locations in Hampshire and Berkshire counties, building community and prosperity for individuals with intellectual, developmental, and mental disabilities.Though they are the first in the state to start this care model, Prospect Meadow Farm is just one of many similar projects across the country. This week they are hosting the first ever Care Farming Network National Conference to strengthen connections in this nationwide circuit.

Plus, Mr. Universe, Salman Hameed of Kainaat Studios and Hampshire College, talks about the interesting confluences of astronomy and astrology, including what retrograde actually means so everyone who is worried about Mars can settle down.

Prospect Meadow Farm
Mr. Universe
Jan 13, 2025

Christopher “Monte'' Belmonte is host and executive producer of NEPM's The Fabulous 413. He was born and raised in Massachusetts and has been a radio host in western Massachusetts for the last 20 years — the last 17 of them as host of Mornings with Monte on The River 93.9/WRSI.
Kaliis Smith is a radio host and producer for NEPM's The Fabulous 413. She was most recently host and producer at The River 93.9/WRSI where she appeared on Mornings with Monte for the Nerdwatch segment and hosted weekday evenings.