September 17, 2024: Adjust for changing planet

The Fabulous 413

We’re in the throes of Climate Change Week, where western Mass. is absolutely doing it’s part to help inform the public and help field solutions that will help to ensure a more resilient future

First, we head to April Hill Farm, where Ben Crockett of Berkshire Agricultural Ventures and Sarah Montiero and Iris Arboreal of Greenagers are preparing to for a whole evening of tours, workshops, and more at their "Farming in a Changing Climate" event this Wednesday, Sept. 18th. We’ll hear about the challenges of the BAV’s mission to help farmers of three states to thrive, the many ways Greenagers gives youth practical local ways to address a swiftly changing planet through agriculture, forestry, and practical trades, and how each organization is able to help more farms by working together.

And we’ll discover new ways of collaboration and conservation at Big River Chestnuts in Sunderland, who’re seeking ways to incorporate trees into agriculture for soil health, and resiliency, especially after another summer where Western New England experienced flooding. We’ll hear from Jono Neiger about his farm's eponymous chestnuts, find out from Rachael Haas from Meadowland Farms how her farm's sheep are helping them keep the farmland trimmed and tidy, and more innovations in agroforestry they’ve been exploring along the banks of the Connecticut River. Plus, we meet the first-in-the-nation cabinet level climate chief, Melissa Hoffer from the Healy/Driscoll administration

Also a nuanced play comes to CitySpace this weekend, and uses traditional Nepalese theater to examine the ongoing modern problems of that nation’s caste system. Director Rose Schwietz and performer/actor Suraj Malla visit us at the NEPM Studios to discuss the one person production “The Tragedy of Maila Kami” and the many ways its tale and use of the form hudkeli will cross more than cultures this weekend in Easthampton