Editing Hadley, Massachusetts (section)

==Economy==
Hadley's economy can be in large part characterized by agriculture and retail services, having the thoroughfare [[Massachusetts Route 9]] traversing it east to west with abundant stores, and a wide variety of farms which benefit from the area's Hadley loam. Due to its climate and soils, one of its staple crops for the last two centuries has consistently been its [[asparagus]], which has been described as competing in Boston markets despite local availability of the crop from other nearby regions, as well as in restaurants in France and Germany, and Queen Elizabeth II's own annual spring feast in England. Its ubiquity and reputation in Hadley agriculture has lent it the nickname "Hadley grass".<ref>{{cite report|quote=Asparagus occupies a fair acreage and is successfully grown, even competing in the Boston market with asparagus grown from near-by sections|page=22|title=Soil Survey of Hampden and Hampshire Counties, Massachusetts|issue=25|last1=Latimer|first1=W. J.|last2=Smith|first2=L. R.|publisher=University Department of Agriculture|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=dtrwAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA22}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|title=The New American Cooking|last=Nathan|first=Joan|date=March 22, 2011|publisher=Random House|location=New York|page=181|isbn=9780307538871|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lJ8fPhJRDikC&pg=PT181}}</ref><ref>{{Cite magazine|title=Hadley Grass|magazine=Saveur|last=Nussbaum|first=David|archive-date=May 11, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170511103030/https://www.saveur.com/article/Kitchen/Hadley-Grass-|url=https://www.saveur.com/article/Kitchen/Hadley-Grass-}}</ref>