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February 2024 | Farmer Event, Board Leadership and more!
December 2023 | Reflections from our Farmers
November 2023 | We are grateful for our farmers
October 2023 | An Autumn Update From BAV
September 2023 | Farmers Market Week!
August 2023 | A Reminder to Our Farmers: Please Report Your Damages
July 2023 | July Update - Climate Smart Agriculture, Spotlights, and More!
July 2023 | Emergency Flooding Response - BAV Stands With Our Farmers
June 2023 | Exciting Announcements at BAV!
In Remembrance - May 2023 | Honoring the Legacy of Our Founder Neil Chrisman
March 2023 | Spring is Here! BAV Launches Climate-Smart Ag Program
Special Announcement - February 2023 | Market Match Campaign goes live in March!
January 2023 | Reflections of 2022 and Looking Ahead
Call of VAGP Applicants | BAV is seeking livestock farmers/producers interested in applying to Valued Added Producer Grant Program
October 2022 | October Brings Small Victories with Big Impacts
August 2022 | Fall: food, farms, fiber
June 2022 | Summer in the Berkshires, “meating” the demand, donor appreciation and summer events.
April 2022 | Spring has Sprung! Exciting program updates, BAV hires new Program Manager, farm spotlight and more.
Special Announcement - April 2022 | BAV launches new grant making fund for farmers markets.
February 2022 | BAV welcomes new staff, how BAV’s low-interest loan program helped a local farm scale up, “Why I Give” donor spotlight.
December 2021 | Building the future of food in our community; BAV’s 2021 year in review.
November 2021 | Help BAV create resilience in the local meat processing supply chain.
October 2021 | BAV launches Local Meat Processing Support Program.
September 2021 | Exciting project announcement, BAV working with local livestock farmers to improve processing bottlenecks.
August 2021 | BAV supports local farmers, BAV receives its first USDA grant, and summer of grant give-aways!
May 2021 | Note from the Director, Smoke & Honey Co. the farm highlight of the month, food jobs in the Berkshires.
April 2021 | Our mission and what we do at BAV, Resilience Fund Grant awarded to Greenagers, farm highlight of the month Abode Farm.
March 2021 | BAV’s first newsletter of 2021! Introducing new staff, new agroforestry initiatives, and woman owned farm and food business.
November 2020 | As Farmers’ Market season comes to a close read about Roots Rising and New Lebanon Farmers Markets success, and BAV’s Resilience Fund role and impact on these spaces.
July 2020 | Our 2019-2020 Impact Report is out!
April 2020 (Resilience Fund) | BAV Establishes New Fund to Support Farmers During COVID-19 Pandemic.
December 2019 | BAV earns Seal of Transparency, grants awarded for aquaponics facility, and Sweet Brook Farm update.
July 2019 | BAV’s 2018 Impact Report is complete! Plus most recently awarded matching grants and a special “save-the-date” event!
April 2019 | ThinkFOOD at Simon’s Rock, Marty’s Local expansion, Northwest CT Food Hub and so much more this month!