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We get a glimpse into the local punk scene with the band Film & Gender, go to Paper City Fabrics in Holyoke, talk about CSAs at Rivershed Farm, and celebrate a year of Thunderdomes.
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We host singer-songwriter Sean Rowe for Live Music Friday, taste some maple sugar at the North Hadley Sugar Shack, and try two French appellation wines at Table and Vine.
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We talk about gender equity in the trades with Amy Calandrella of Western Mass Tradeswomen, speak with Sen. Jo Comerford about gun reform, and eat locally at Champney's Restaurant and Tavern.
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We talk with Candace and Raye Birk about a new documentary and the intersections of art and aging, discuss winter farming with the owner Winter Moon Roots, Rosendo Santizo, and answer word questions with Emily Brewster, senior editor at Merriam Webster.
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We talk with folx from the Conway School in Northampton about education in ecological municipal planning and discuss keeping former President Donald Trump of ballots with Free Speech for People president John Bonifaz.
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We take a look at humane animal husbandry at Walker Farm at Whortleberry Hill, a new children's book by authors Gwen Agna and Shelley Rotner, and the healing properties of music with Lonnie Holley.
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We head to Hadley to discover one of the oldest continuously running farms in Western Mass at Barstow's, find out the origins, principles, and local events for Kwanzaa with Umass professor Amilcar Shabazz and Springfield Kwanzaa Co-ordinator Ayanna Crawford, and Mr. Universe, and Salman Hameed wraps up the year with two recommendations and one significant cosmic event.
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A Massachusetts Agricultural Disaster Relief Fund would be funded through donations and grants. Farmers told lawmakers they need cash assistance, not a new line of credit or more loans.
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For years, Massachusetts has led the minimum wage race in New England. That ends in 2024, when Connecticut's rate — now tied to inflation — goes from $15 an hour to $15.69.
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While it was clear the young growing spinach and kale that was submerged under floodwaters on Monday were a complete loss, farmers hold out hope that some crops will bounce back.