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Valley Bounty: Big River Chestnuts
Daily Hampshire Gazette
October 3, 2026
By Lisa Goodrich, CISA Communications Coordinator
Jono Neiger of Big River Chestnuts in Sunderland with chestnuts from his grove. PAUL FRANZ / Staff Photo
By reviving a historical crop, one farmer has a plan to feed our community while stewarding the land into the future. Jono Neiger is trained as an ecologist and conservation biologist, who approaches farming from an ecological perspective. For him, the relationships between the land, the abutting river, and the plant species create the farm, and trees play a central role in his vision.
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