Podcast 7 Riverland Farms

Rob Lynch and Meghan Arquin are young farmers who run Riverland Farm, an

Rob and Meghan

18-acre organic vegetable farm on the banks of the Connecticut River in Sunderland, MA.  They run it as a Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) farm, which means that members buy shares before the season starts and come pick up vegetables every week.  You can learn more about how to get a share, here.  Will Sloan Anderson of Franklin Land Trust introduced me to these people – thanks, Will!

You can download the audio here or listen below:

Riverland Farm – Meghan Arquin and Rob Lynch (20  minutes):

You can watch it on YouTube – the audio is edited to be much shorter and it has lots of pretty pictures.

Things mentioned in the podcast:

• What they grow on the farm – see pretty pictures here.
• Their newsletters.
• Agricultural Preservation Restriction (APR) program.
• The history of farming in the Connecticut River Valley.
• Community Involved in Sustaining Agriculture (CISA). Note: I had their name wrong in the original version of this post – thanks Tracie at CISA for correcting me!
• Food Bank Farm – a really innovative program.  It’s a self-supporting CSA that gives half of the food it grows to a food bank.
• How to pop pocorn on the stove.  But if you’re using really good popcorn like from Riverland farm, don’t use quite as much as in the recipe – or else your popcorn will be as crazy as mine!

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