‘A Critical Training Ground’: North Adams Farmers Market Vendors Grow Into Downtown Staples
The Berkshire Eagle looks at how Red Shirt Farm and three other North Adams Farmers Market vendors built loyal customer bases before opening storefronts of their own.
Red Shirt Farm Market Is Open for Business on Route 7 in Lanesborough
After five years of planning, Red Shirt Farm’s store on Route 7 is open, with a commercial kitchen, local groceries, and Sarah Schultz now leading the farming side.
Local Farmer Awards Boost Productivity, Growth, and Efficiency at Red Shirt Farm
Local Farmer Awards grants helped Jim Schultz bring three innovations to Red Shirt Farm: a paperpot transplanter, a fertigation system, and a QLIPR trellising system for greenhouse tomatoes.
Berkshire Farmers Markets Aren’t Just Catering to the Rich These Days
Jim Schultz sells at the North Adams Farmers Market and Pittsfield’s winter market, where SNAP and Massachusetts’ Healthy Incentives Program now cover 30 to 40 percent of a given day’s sales — keeping the heirloom tomato within reach whether you can pay full price or not.
Flora or Fauna, That’s What One Berkshires Chef Asks Dinner Guests
This spring, Red Shirt Farm turned up in a Worcester Telegram & Gazette review of Sage and Sparrow, the tasting-menu restaurant at Wheatleigh in Lenox — one of the local farms chef RJ Cooper sources from for his hyper-local menus.
On the Job: Jim Schultz
The Berkshire Eagle’s “On the Job” Q&A with Jim Schultz on trading 26 years in education for full-time farming, and why he named the place Red Shirt Farm.
Red Shirt Farm Raises Awareness While Growing Fresh Produce
Berkshire Trade & Commerce profiles Jim and Annie Schultz’s no-till, no-spray growing system at Red Shirt Farm, from raised beds and a climate battery greenhouse to their heritage-breed poultry program.
Redshirting: The Schultz Family’s Long Road to Red Shirt Farm
A 2018 profile of Jim and Annie Schultz at Red Shirt Farm: heritage breeds, organic no-till, a homemade climate battery, and why they named the place for a football tradition.
Programs Ensure That for Youths’ Summer Employment, Readiness Training Is Job One
Davon Young, 15, spent his summer harvesting and sorting vegetables at Red Shirt Farm through the Pittsfield Youth Works program — one of 71 Berkshire County youths finding gainful summer employment through three regional programs.