Eat the View A celebration of the beauty and bounty of our local landscape Friday, October 2, 2009 6-10pm Extra! Extra! Read all about local farms. CISA's 13th annual Locally Grown: Farm Products Guide, a free full-color publication, is here! A copy of the Guide is available for download (warning 7MB). Simply click on the picture of the guide. Community members at the household level and above will receive a copy in the mail. Join today and get your copy in the mail. The Guide can also be found in the produce sections of several local retailers, including Atkins Farms Country Market, Big E’s Super Market, select Big Y stores, Cornucopia Foods, Foster’s Super Market, Green Fields Market, McCusker’s Market and Deli, Randall’s Farm and Greenhouse, River Valley Market, State Street Fruit Store, select Stop & Shop stores, and Whole Foods Market. The 2009 Locally Grown: Farm Products Guide is a service of CISA with support from Berkshire-Pioneer Resource Conservation & Development Area, Northeast Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education, and the US Department of Agriculture Rural Business Enterprise Grant Program. The Guide is also supported by the area businesses and organizations through paid advertising. Please patronize our advertisers. Reaching for 1,000 members With the case for supporting local agriculture stronger than ever, CISA is pursuing a goal of 1,000 community membership by the end of 2009. Click here to enroll today! 2009 Local Hero awards recognize three advocates for agriculture CISA is pleased to announce that it has selected The People's Pint, LaSalle Florists, and Seeds of Solidarity to receive its prestigious Local Hero Awards for 2009. The awards are given in recognition of outstanding achievement in furthering CISA's mission of linking farmers and community members, to nominees that have made a noticeable impact on sustaining agriculture in western Massachusetts. "We applaud our 2009 Local Hero Award recipients and we honor the impact they have had in promoting sustainability and community through their commitment to local food and agriculture," says Philip Korman, executive director of CISA. "Our Local Hero awardees are individuals who can serve as role models for all of us and can help us to create and nourish long term change." Do you want to attend a farm festival or event? Visit the events page and see what's happening this season. Want to get the inside scoop on what is happening at CISA, in the farm community and on farms around the region and country? You can read archived copies of our newsletter here. Support CISA by making a donation or becoming a member. Want to learn about CISA's food and farming programs -- including getting locally grown food to low income seniors, promoting local farms and farm products, or creating blankets from local wool? Visit our programs page for all the details. Annual Reports

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