Free Event. Hosted at the Norfolk Hub. Tuesday, February 18, 2025 from 5:00 pm to 7:00 pm
Join Ben Crocket of Berkshire Ag Ventures and Billy Gridley of Aton Forest for a discussion on how Connecticut & Berkshire communities are building organizations for a more resilient bioregion.
Local farms, food businesses, and community members are invited to explore farmer-led approaches to climate change. Berkshire Ag Ventures, a nonprofit, helps farms and food businesses secure grants, bridge loans, and technical assistance. Aton Forest provides bioregional ecosystem services (clean water and air, nutrient recycling, climate buffering, species habitat, forest integrity and more).
Ben Crockett, Berkshire Ag Ventures, Program Manager
Billy Gridley, Aton Forest, Head Steward
Event is in-person
Berkshire Agricultural Ventures is an agricultural non-profit with the mission to support the development and viability of local farms and food businesses in order to build a thriving and equitable local food economy. Since 20I7 BAV has offered micro-financing and business technical assistance to farm and food businesses in Berkshire county (MA), Columbia and Dutchess counties (NY), and Litchfield county (CT).
Aton Forest is a non-profit land protection organization and ecological field station, created for preservation of Natural Area Preserves (semi-managed and wild lands) and operated for ecological and forest succession research in northwest Connecticut and surrounding bioregion.