Systems of Resilience: Energy-Efficient Advances Power a Vegetable Farm
A 2022 Acres U.S.A. feature on the climate battery, thermal curtains, and SolaWrap covering behind Red Shirt Farm’s most energy-efficient high tunnel — and how the system pays for itself while cutting propane use and carbon emissions.
Twenty-Five Years of Waiting
A winter conversation on WBCR-LP with Bill Taylor and Jaye Moscariello: where the farm’s name came from, why we’re not chasing USDA certification, the sap analysis that stopped leaf mold, and a greenhouse heated by last August.
Jim Schultz’s Red Shirt Farm Is a True Success Story
A 2021 Hobby Farms profile on Jim Schultz’s path from 26 years as a public school educator to building Red Shirt Farm into a thriving 13-acre, no-till operation with a 130-member CSA, farmers market sales, and wholesale accounts.
Backyard Birds: What It Actually Takes
An hour on the NOFA Podcast about keeping backyard birds: which breeds take a Berkshire winter, why the housing has to move, what feed actually costs, and why none of it will save you money.
Turning Over Some New Leafs: A Greenhouse Photo Essay
A short Berkshire Eagle photo essay on Red Shirt Farm’s climate battery greenhouse — Jim Schultz prepping a lettuce bed and farm crew harvesting Asian mixed greens, mid-winter.
Finding the Future in Healthy Soil: In the Berkshires, a Small Farm Shows the Benefits of No-Till Agriculture
A profile of Red Shirt Farm’s decade-long shift to no-till growing, and how healthy soil, heritage livestock, and a hillside orchard fit into one small Berkshires farm.
No-Tillers Embrace Tech: Massachusetts Farm Advocates for Wise Use of Equipment and Regenerative Practices
A no-till microfarm in the Berkshires shows how equipment choices, cover cropping, and heritage livestock come together in a working regenerative system.
Who’s Coming to Thanksgiving? Local Farms Are Already Selling Out of Turkeys
Local farms including Red Shirt Farm are selling out of heritage turkeys well before Thanksgiving, as pandemic-driven demand for local food surges across the Berkshires.
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.
Lanesborough Farms Receive State Grants for Solar Power
In 2017, Red Shirt Farm received a state grant to install a 9.75 kW solar array — an early step toward energy independence on the farm. Coverage from The Berkshire Eagle.
Food Visionaries: Berkshire Group’s Push for Healthy Food for All
A 2019 Berkshire Magazine profile on Berkshire Agricultural Ventures and the farmers it backs — including Jim Schultz of Red Shirt Farm, whose heritage-breed chickens, turkeys, and pigs are part of a regional push to make healthy, local food accessible to all.
With Thoughtfulness, Care, and Innovation, Red Shirt Farm Thrives
A 2017 Berkshire Edge profile on how Red Shirt Farm approaches soil, greenhouse growing, and heritage livestock — hand-shaped beds, trellised tomatoes, and pastured chickens and pigs raised the old-fashioned way.