January 13, 2025: Growing CARE

The Fabulous 413

We’re off to the farm again, but this time we’re looking at an innovative approach to agriculture that is helping folx nationwide, and Western Mass is right at the epicenter of it’s network this week.

Prospect Meadow Farm has been growing rapidly for a little over a decade to now three locations in Hampshire and Berkshire counties, as a department of Service Net umbrella to build community and prosperity for individuals with intellectual, developmental, and mental disabilities.

And it turns out that although they were the first in the state to start a model of this nature, they’re by no means the only ones in the country doing it. And Today through Wednesday they’ll be bringing in folx from all over the nation who are doing this work to the valley for the first ever Care Farming Network National Conference

So we’ll head to Hatfield to hear about the nature of Care Farming, the Story of Prospect Meadow Farms, and get a tour of the grounds from the administrators and farmhands working there, while discovering what this concept of CARE farming is all about and how you can learn more about it too at their workshops over the next few days.

Plus Mr. Universe, Kainaat Studios and Hampshire College's Salman Hameed, talks about the interesting confluences of astronomy and astrology, including an explanation of what retrograde actually means so everyone out there worried about Mars can settle down.