Join the *new* Food System Job Creation working group of PVGrows: Friday, May 11 from 12 noon to 1:30 pm at the Northampton Career Center 178 Industrial Drive, Northampton This meeting will set the group’s action for the next 6 months. Join in the fun! Potential action areas are: Addressing seasonality of current agricultural jobs [...]
Hampshire Gazette Editorial About PVGrows
Editorial: Food for investment thought Wednesday, April 11, 2012 In a conference today at Smith College, creative match-making could shape an important new tool for Valley economic development. The dollar figures aren’t huge, at least in an age when Facebook will pay $1 billion for a photo-sharing company with a dozen employees. But the value [...]
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Greenfield Recorder article: Valley Malt & PVGrows
Small business start-ups need small investors Local group aims to bring two together; Wednesday conference to set up fund April 7, 2012 By RICHIE DAVIS Recorder Staff Andrea Stanley, a former social worker, and her mechanical engineer husband, Christian, looked around at the renewed interest in growing local grains and using it to make local [...]
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PVGrows Loan Fund Profile: Valley Malt
Valley Malt will be one of seven local food enterprises featured at the PVGrows Spring Forum, April 11, at Smith College Conference Center. The PVGrows Loan Fund is a Pioneer-Valley based loan fund that offers loans to businesses that enhance our local agricultural and food systems. Loans are available for a wide variety of local [...]
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