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Thanks to Kaliis Smith and the Fabulous 413 team for spotlighting GREENAGERS INC and Berkshire Agricultural Ventures in their recent segment ahead of our "Farming in a Changing Climate" event tonight! https://lnkd.in/eBqGuA3v

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One of my favorite parts of my role is when I can roll up my sleeves and get out into the field with my customers! Had a great meeting with Will and Greenagers today. They are instrumental in many projects across the county with a focus on trail work, farm work, and trades work. Their nitch is offering employment to youth and it has been more then well received by area schools and the community. Thank you GREENAGERS INC for all you do! I brought some treats from Harmony Market along for the hard working kids in all of this heat!!

https://lnkd.in/eYUDtr_j By Breanna Steele, Pittsfield PITTSFIELD, Mass. – Cucumbers, tomatoes and flowers are thriving in the middle of downtown Pittsfield. Thanks in part to Lee Bank, who partnered with GREENAGERS INC, to use extra space on their lot for a community garden. Greenagers, which helps install gardens as part of their work, installed five garden beds and did the planting to give the neighborhood a green space. “If there aren’t green spaces, if there are fewer trees, it's proven to be detrimental to residents. So if we intentionally put these green spaces here and have areas where folks can just come and relax, or put their hands in the soil, or just have some shade in the hot summer, all of that is beneficial,” said Greenagers Executive Director Will Conklin. Three of the garden beds were donated to tenants living above the bank to use.  Jim and Cheryl Terryberry never thought they would be able to have a garden in the city. “It’s such an opportunity to interact with the community and to be in an area where we never thought living amongst sidewalks and houses that we would,” Cheryl Terryberry said. “We thought we’d only be looking at blacktop all the time. This is really nice,” Jim Terryberry said. Two beds will be used by VIM Berkshires for their patients to engage with the community. The food that they plant is collected and donated to their patients as well. “We all know that working in the dirt and being in nature is really beneficial to one’s mental and physical health, and that is really the goal that we have here, is another way for our patients to feel connected to the earth and be able to have a calm and tranquil space to relax and be together,” said Janell Hostetler, who is a nurse practitioner and site director for ViM. Since there is some more room in the lot, Lee Bank is hoping to eventually expand and bring in some more people to have a space to garden.

Save your seats...Our Summer Gala is right around the corner.

Save your seats...Our Summer Gala is right around the corner.

Happy International Day of Forests! In 2012, the United Nations General Assembly created this day to celebrate and raise awareness of the importance of all types of forests. The sustainable management of forests in all regions of the globe is important in meeting several of the UN's Sustainable Development Goals (sdgs.un.org/goals). In #NewEngland, NEFF is sustainably managing forests for carbon in the forest🌲, biodiversity 🦉, and the production of long-lived wood products 🏢. Today, NEFF staff Robert Perschel, Jennifer Hushaw Shakun, Vanessa Komada, Lisa Hayden, and Kate Lindroos Conlin are celebrating #ForestDay at Canopy 2024: Forests, Climate, and Innovations Forum (https://lnkd.in/eKrPWgbr) hosted by Massachusetts Department of Conservation and Recreation, Massachusetts Department of Fish & Game, and Massachusetts Executive Office of Energy and Environmental Affairs. Partners of the event include NEFF, Massachusetts Forest Alliance, Mass Audubon, Building and Construction Technology (BCT) | UMass Amherst, and GREENAGERS INC. On this important day, we are honored to advance the discussion of the sustainable management of #forests and the need for #wood products in #Massachusetts. It is time we recognize the power of forests as a nature-based solution to #climatechange. Everyday is Forest Day. 🌳🌎❤️ FAO Society of American Foresters

Happy February! Make sure to head to our website for our latest featured positions. This week's Monthly Upload is featuring: Climate Power Earthjustice Youth on Root Institute for Human Rights and Business ALIGN: The Alliance for a Greater New York Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies Yosemite Conservancy Rocky Mountain Youth Corps HEET GREENAGERS INC The Sunrise Project Wild Connections Carbon Solutions REVERB Sustainable Northwest Nokomis Energy Dogwood Alliance Our Climate

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