Agriculture

A Shrewsbury winery property was sold for $2 million on Friday, according to the Worcester District Registry of Deeds.

Employees are on the move at Akoya Biosciences, Milford Regional Medical Center, and MutualOne Bank, with new hires joining operations and promotions happening within organizations.

Deputy commissioner of the Massachusetts Department of Agricultural Resources Ashley Randle is blazing trails in the department by being named to succeed John Lebeaux as commissioner, the first woman named to the position.

The North Central Massachusetts Development Corp. in Fitchburg loaned $150,000 to Adams Farm and Slaughterhouse in Athol to help run the company and purchase equipment.

Despite falling prices and increasing competition, marijuana business officials across the state, and particularly in Central Massachusetts, still see the cannabis market as primed for opportunity, with operators having to be smarter about the way they operate their marijuana businesses.

The voters in Hardwick on Saturday decided they don’t want a racetrack. According to the town’s unofficial tally from Saturday’s special election, 830 people voted against the special permit for the race track, outnumbering the 312 yes votes in favor of the track.

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Millis vertical farming company, Crop One Holdings, Inc. and New York-based Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory have received a $1.5 million cost-matching grant from the nonprofit Foundation for Food & Agriculture Research in Washington D.C. to fund research of plant-based protein.

Millis-based agriculture company, Crop One Holdings, Inc., is building a 316,000 square foot vertical farm in Hazle Township, Pennsylvania. It is expected to open in 2024.

On Nov. 3, New England Botanic Garden was honored as the first botanic garden in the nation to be certified a Green Zone by the American Green Zone Alliance, as the Boylston garden is now performing all routine maintenance with electric lawn and garden equipment.