August 22, 2025
NATE TASSINARI OWNS a 145-acre farm in western Massachusetts that has been in his family for three generations. His farm supplies hay and corn to the cows in the dairy farm his cousins own next door.
When he bought the land nine years ago from his grandmother, his intention was to keep farming the land at a time when farmland is disappearing across the state. But the business was in the red…