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April 25, 2025

When the river rises

Posted in Commonwealth Beacon
On the eve of July 10, 2023, Piyush Labhsetwar, like many farmers in the Pioneer Valley region of Massachusetts, went to sleep anticipating rain. But he wasn’t prepared for what he saw the next morning, when he checked the online water gauge for the Mill River, a tributary of the Connecticut River that runs along Grow Food Northampton’s 121-acre community farm.

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