This past Sunday, at the 15th Annual Agriculture and Food Conference, SEMAP announced the recipients of the 2022 Technology, Innovation, and Excellence (TIE) Awards. This year’s award-winners were selected from a highly competitive applicant pool across out region, and were selected by a committee of SEMAP staff and board members. SEMAP’s TIE Awards are intended …

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Last month, SEMAP brought Massachusetts Commissioner of Agriculture John Lebeaux out on a tour of several local farms in Bristol and Plymouth counties. The Massachusetts Department of Agricultural Resources (MDAR) staff visits Southeastern Massachusetts every year to meet farmers on the field, and get their input on the state’s food and agriculture programs. Our first …

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Haley Pollock embodies the term “homegrown.” Spending her childhood baking bread at her grandmother’s kitchen counter and working on a New England farm, she became a professional chef and food entrepreneur as an adult. Her love of local food and her commitment to health combine in The Holistic Trick, her meal preparation and nutrition education …

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It’s no secret that farmland in New England is hard to come by: it’s scarce, it’s segmented, and it’s expensive. We are now presented with the opportunity to change that! In the early 1970s, Massachusetts General Law 61A was enacted in an attempt to ease burdens on farmers and remedy expensive, inaccessible farmland. Under this …

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