Agriculture

Outdoor growers face a litany of hurdles to bring product to market, but the end result can be an environmentally friendlier option to indoor production.

A long-term employee of J. Martin Landscaping in Westminster has secured $150,000 in financing to purchase the lawn care business portion of the landscaping enterprise. 

Following the closure of her Maker to Main grocery store in Worcester’s Canal District, shop owner Lynn Cheney has quickly found a way to continue to contribute to the community.

While the Massachusetts cannabis industry continues to feel growing pains, consumers’ appetite for cannabis has shown no signs of slowing. 

Just as cannabis businesses are gearing up for the holiday known as 4/20, an unofficial celebration of marijuana where dispensaries see some of their largest crowds of the year, eleven companies in Central Massachusetts received $430,000 from the first grants from the Massachusetts Cannabis Social Equity Trust Fund.

Founded in 2013, Freight Farms now has more than 600 farming units in 41 countries around the world, according to the company’s website.

A beef farmer, Schmid co-chairs the Legislature's Agriculture Committee, which top Democrats spun out as a standalone panel this term.

The state's retailers sold 232,894 pounds worth of cannabis flower to recreational consumers in 2023, about the weight of the average blue whale.

With concerns over a lack of affordable housing dominating headlines, communities across the country are starting to reconsider the issue of mandatory parking minimums.

Between 2021 and 2023, the number of Massachusetts residents living in food insecure households increased by close to 50 percent, according to data from the U.S. Department of Agriculture.