“Linnaeus, letting fall his hand on a bunch of Moss at his side, exclaimed, ‘Underneath this palm is material for the study of a lifetime’; and if this is true of a handful of Moss, the treasures of a township must be inexhaustible. We need not seek for new worlds to conquer.“ — Timothy Otis Fuller, “A Sketch of the Flora of Needham”, 1886
Stephen Herbert, professor of agriculture at UMass Amherst, right, shows farmer Pat Canonica of Boxford how raised solar panels allow for the land underneath to remain in agriculture as vegetable gardens Aug. 31, 2017 at the UMass Crop and Animal Research and Education Center in South Deerfield.