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This is an incubator facility in Greenfield that helps entrepreneurs get their ideas up and running. They offer expert advice in business planning, operations, and lending as well as workspace. Their food processing division has been tremendously successful, helping many creative people turn locally grown foods into unique products that highlight the agricultural importance of Franklin County.

Transition towns are movements that connect people through events and initiatives focused on growing local economies into sustainable and fulfilling communities. This is the Massachusetts ring. I think these kind of movements are inspiring because it is so morale building to connect locally and discuss what we are going to do in our humble little lives to make things better, rather than depend on big changes coming from places of power.