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The newly updated Lab Data Mart website, also known as the National Cooperative Lab Characterization Database, brings valuable soil data in an interactive map.
The Shattuck family has been producing maple syrup on their farm in Belchertown, Mass. for nearly 50 years. After building a larger sugarhouse in 2020, they wanted to ensure they were operating at peak energy efficiency. So, they asked NRCS for help.
The Baxter Grist Mill dam ensured water flow for the milling process for 200 years, but it prevented herring from reaching spawning grounds in the mill pond. A fish ladder built in the 20th century wasn’t working well, so local partners and NRCS recently constructed a new ladder.
Mill Creek snakes its way through verdant marsh grass and out into sparkling Sandwich Harbor. This is a salt marsh, a coastal wetland that is a transition between the upland and the ocean.
All the produce picked on Davidian Farm in Northborough, Massachusetts throughout the summer is put into a 40 by 40-foot cooler until they are ready for market. That cooler was installed in the 1960s, so it was no surprise that an energy audit done with the help of the USDA Natural Resources Conserv
To the Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe of southeastern Massachusetts, sweetgrass is more than an ordinary-looking grass with a nice aroma. It’s an important ceremonial and medicinal plant. In recent years, however, the tribe has been losing local access to this native Cape Cod plant.
Steep land and a short growing season? Not a problem for Jan Johnson, owner of Mill River Farm, a 32 acre certified-organic produce and livestock farm in New Marlborough, Massachusetts, in the heart of the Berkshire hills.
Early one morning, in the summer of 2018, Bill Rose was walking through a forested area of his family’s farm in Phillipston, Mass. The area had been clear cut as part of a forest conservation project.
