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  • Real Pickles Garners Two Awards | Greenfield Recorder (January 24, 2020)
  • Four local food producers capture national awards | Greenfield Recorder (January 17, 2019)
  • Minimum wage will rise to $12 an hour in Massachusetts on Jan. 1 |

    Mass Live (December 24, 2019)

  • Of the Earth: Fermenting visions of a long life | Greenfield Recorder (November 27, 2018)
  • Pickle Power: Can fermented food fight off colds? | Daily Hampshire Gazette (October 9, 2018)
  • UMass scientists partner with Real Pickles | Greenfield Recorder (September 27th, 2018)
  • Profile: Real Pickles | Slow Money Blog: Connecting local food entrepreneurs with investors (August 24, 2018)
  • Can This Small Town Lead America in Fighting the Opioid Crisis? | OZY (April 18, 2018)
  • How the Coop Grows Sustainable Businesses | Park Slope Food Coop Linewaiters' Gazette (March 29, 2018)
  • A Mission Driven Pickling Company Reached Their Direct Public Offering Goal in Less Than Two Months, This is Where They Are Now | Cutting Edge Captial Blog (March 15, 2018)
  • Getting on the Ballot: What we’ll be Voting on in 2018 | Valley Advocate (January 2, 2018)
  • Winners of 2017 Massachusetts Sustainable Business of the Year Awards | MassLive (November 29, 2017)
  • Real Pickles | To Market Magazine (Sept 23, 2017)
  • The Many Faces of Employee Ownership | B the Change Magazine (Mar 31, 2017)
  • Pickles to the People: Creating a Community Around Fermentation | Edible Pioneer Valley (October 8, 2016)
  • Grown Locally: CISA: Real Pickles & Artifact Cider | Connecting Point  (February 17, 2016)
  • Local Pickle Maker Real Pickles Wins National Award | Greenfield Recorder  (January 24, 2016)
  • Real Pickles Lauded by Jobs Board | Greenfield Recorder (December 2, 2015)
  • Boston Fermentation Festival Brings the Funk | Craving Boston  (October 18, 2015)
  • Case Study Business Conversion: Real Pickles | Project Equity (April 2015)
  • Some Choose To Keep Their Cash In Their Neighborhood | New England Public Radio  (July 17, 2014)
  • Our First Year as a Co-op | USDA Rural Cooperatives Magazine  (July/August 2014 - page 30)
  • How to Go Public Without a Stock Exchange | Bloomberg Businessweek  (June 5, 2014)
  • When Workers Become Owners: Real Pickles charts an unconventional course | The Valley Advocate  (May 14, 2014)
  • The Passion of Pickling | WNPR (February 11, 2014)
  • Gone Sour: A Greenfield business keeps up with demand | Many Hands  (Fall 2013 - page 44)
  • Seeking Capital, Some Companies Turn to ‘Do-It-Yourself I.P.O.’s | The New York Times  (August 1, 2013)
  • Green Hero of the Month: July Heroes – Growing in Community | The Recorder  (July 10, 2013)
  • A ‘Real Pickle’ for workers | USDA: Rural Cooperatives  (July/August 2013)
  • The Power of Co-ops | Northeast Organic Farming Association of Vermont  (Summer 2013)
  • Business etc: Real Pickles now worker owned | The Republican  (May 20, 2013)
  • The Care and Feeding of Small Business | The New York Times  (May 13, 2013)
  • Real Pickles in Greenfield offering coop shares | The Republican  (March 5, 2013)
  • Greenfield MA Pickling Company Goes Co-op | New England Public Radio News  (March 4, 2013)
  • New England Farmers Union: A Fermentation Celebration | Farming, The Journal of Northeast Agriculture  (March 2013)
  • Real Pickles Seeks Real Paradigm Shift | Montague Reporter  (February 28, 2013)
  • Area food businesses change ownership recipe | The Recorder (February 27, 2013)
  • Annual Co-op Show | WHMP: The Bill Newman Show 10.26  (October 26, 2012 - RP at minute 28)
  • How to preserve your own vegetables | Boston Globe  (August 8, 2012)
  • Locavores turn to fermenting to preserve their veggies | Boston Globe (August 8, 2012)
  • Perfect Pickles | Cape Cod and Islands NPR Station: The Local Food Report with Elspeth Hay  (July 12, 2012)
  • The Artisanal Irony: The Mass-Produced Hand-Crafted Food Dilemma | Village Voice/SF Weekly (June 27, 2012 - RP on page 4)
  • An active interest in all kinds of pickles | The Recorder/Associated Press  (June 11, 2012)
  • Pickles = Good Food! | The Recorder (Feb 22, 2012)
  • Greenfield’s Real Pickles gets year off to real good start with ‘Good Food Award | The Republican  (Jan 25, 2012)
  • Real Pickles wins 2nd Good Food Award | The Recorder (Jan 17, 2012)
  • 1st Annual Peck Slip Pickle Festival | The Pickle Club  (Nov 28, 2011 - RP around minute 4)
  • New solar panels allows Greenfield’s Real Pickles to go green, save green | The Republican (May 30, 2011)
  • Real Pickles, Solar Style | The Recorder (Oct 21, 2011)
  • Late Breaking Pickle News | Valley Advocate (Feb 10, 2011)

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Monte Tours Real Pickles
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It's Friday and time for another round of Meet the It's Friday and time for another round of Meet the Picklers! Today we would like to introduce one of the newest members of the production team, Madeline! Joining us recently from Asheville, North Carolina, Madeline brings with her many awe-inspiring stories including tales of bicycling across the country with her sweetie, Drew. The two of them biked 4,200 miles from Bar Harbor Maine to Astoria, Oregon making many new friends along the way! These days Madeline's adventures are mostly centered around her new rescue pup Luna and exploring New England. She loves working at Real Pickles and being a part of a mission-based business that is supporting local agriculture. We love that she has chosen Real Pickles as a place to call home! 

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Looking for an easy way to add a little color and Looking for an easy way to add a little color and flavor to your morning? Try mixing in some nutrient-rich fermented veggies with your cream cheese or non-dairy spread! 
Bagels by our neighbor @riseabove_413 
Photo by @clarebarboza
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It is with great pleasure to introduce to you a Pi It is with great pleasure to introduce to you a Pickler you can’t help smiling around, meet Jess! Jess came to Real Pickles after years of doing seasonal work on vegetable farms and piecing together winter jobs. They loved the farm work but when they found Real Pickles 4 years ago they decided this was the place for them! 
Jess is a worker-owner with many important roles across each department at Real Pickles. In addition to being on our board of directors and working as a production assistant, they are also responsible for the seamless success of our shipping department, a job they make look effortless. On top of all that, Jess is also the assistant bookkeeper and a huge asset to the sales team!
If there is a birthday or an occasion to celebrate at Real Pickles, Jess makes sure to provide delicious treats that everyone can enjoy, no matter what their dietary needs are! When Jess is not at Real Pickles they are working hard at mastering the yoyo, learning to crochet small animals and collecting VHS tapes and other forms of obsolete media.
We love working with Jess and appreciate all that they bring to the Real Pickles family! 

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YUM! 😋@wheelhouse.farm has paired our Organic G YUM! 😋@wheelhouse.farm has paired our Organic Garlic Kraut with some pork belly pastrami and rosemary on top of one of our favorite bakery's sourdough! 
Reposted from @cisa_localhero:
When #localrestaurants use hand-made ingredients from other #localfarms and #smallbusinesses, that’s a win for our community and our taste buds :) 
Bread by @riseabove_413 Photo by @wheelhouse.farm

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It's Friday which means it's time to introduce you It's Friday which means it's time to introduce you to another member of the Real Pickles team! This week we'd like you to meet Fermentation Manager and worker-owner Katie Korby. In 2011, Katie was farming and looking for a part time job that she could feel good about. She knew she had found her people when, on her first day as a production assistant, folks broke into song while sweeping the floor during cleanup! Katie took some time off when her daughter was born and to help her husband, Stoneman, of @stonemanbrewery , start his brewery in their back yard. When she returned to Real Pickles she took on the role of Fermentation Manager. Katie oversees all aspects of our fermentation process; she tests each batch, develops new recipes, and implements food safety practices and certifications. 
When Katie isn't at Real Pickles she can be found tending her gardens, raising pigs and chickens, knitting, or hanging out and probably baking something with her 6 year old daughter Maggie. Katie is also one of the musicians on staff that play live music to our fermenting vegetables on a weekly basis! Maybe that is one of her secrets for producing such wonderful ferments! 

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@nofamass presents “Food Security for the Common @nofamass presents “Food Security for the Common Wealth” 
Friday JAN 8 - Sunday JAN 10, 2021 
Virtual workshops, intensives, keynote speeches and an online auction with amazing items (including a Real Pickles sampler) to bid on! 
Event registration: https://cvent.me/ZQZ8Nm
Auction: https://go.rallyup.com/wcauction2021

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