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Food

AgriCulture: The Long and Winding Road to Turkana Farms

Peter Davies and Mark Scherzer are the owners of Turkana Farms in Germantown, NY. This week Peter writes: More and more often, of late, we are approached by interested parties who want to know why and how we got into farming. Some of them seem more than interested; in fact,

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Food

Food Shopping: Delicious Holiday Gifts

One size fits all.  But that's just one of many good reasons to give edibles as gifts.  Food gets shared, which is always festive.    And the fact that it is ephemeral is a nothing but a plus—who among us has room for another tchotchke?  Besides, a gift

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Parties

The Berkshire Creative Community Sparkles Together

Cultural correspondent Bess J. M. Hochstein reports from Lenox: Hundreds of members of the Berkshire "creative class" converged on the Seven Hills Inn on Thursday, December 3, for the second annual SPARKLE, ­ the holiday edition of Berkshire Creative‘s  signature SPARK networking event. As befits the season, deal-

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Style

The Wandering Eye's Guide to Indoor Plants

Our blogger, interior designer Carey Maloney, and his partner Hermes Mallea, an architect, are principals in the M (Group). I love house plants.  I am no gardener.. Perhaps because my mother is a brilliant gardener and a landscape architect, I wanted nada to do with digging in the ground, and

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Parties

MASS MoCA Takes Manhattan

One of the amazing things about MASS MoCA is that a cutting-edge museum with an international reputation thrives in rural, northern Berkshire County.  As community-oriented as MASS MoCA is, it can not depend on locals to sustain it financially, which is why the museum holds an annual fundraiser

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Style

Deck the Halls at the Berkshire Botanical Garden Holiday Fair

The Berkshire Botanical Garden has a dedicated group of volunteers who act like elves in Santa's workshop all year long, making handmade things for the Stockbridge center of horticulture. Last summer, they worked with artist Matthew Larkin  of Black Barn Farm to create spectacular wire-and-crystal chandeliers

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Arts

Seth Rogovoy Sees Dylan's Jewish Spirit Blowin' in the Wind

It's not hyperbole to say that Seth Rogovoy considers listening to—and performing—the music of Bob Dylan a spiritual experience. Rogovoy, the editor in chief of Berkshire Living who was the rock critic for the Berkshire Eagle for nearly two decades, has been a die-hard Dylan

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Parties

The Beacon Cinema Says "Thank You" and "Welcome"

Cultural correspondent Bess J. M. Hochstein reports from Pittsfield:  The brand new Beacon Cinema officially opened on November 19 with a raucous North Street block party and midnight screening of New Moon. But the very next Monday, November 23, the cinema closed its doors to the public to throw another

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Community

Excursions: Holiday Fetes and Strolls

Holiday spirit is highly infectious—no way you'll catch it at home, watching t.v., and all it takes is one trip to any mall to guarantee immunity well past New Year's Eve.  Our small town holiday festivals, on the other hand, are veritable petri dishes

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Food

AgriCulture: "Food Insecurity"? How About Just Plain "Hunger"

Peter Davies and Mark Scherzer are the owners of Turkana Farms in Germantown, NY. This week Mark writes: You may think I'm suffering from a case of eater's remorse, but in fact even before the recent holiday, I was giving a lot of thought to how

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Food

AgriCulture: Ten Years Hence, There is Much to be Thankful For

Peter Davies and Mark Scherzer are the owners of Turkana Farms in Germantown, New York. This week Peter writes: This will be our tenth Thanksgiving at Turkana Farms. And we can be thankful that the house has, at last, been fully restored, the final room being the eighteenth-century basement

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Arts

Dan's Diary: Winter, Spring, Summer or Fall . . .

Even in the off season, Tanglewood dominates the cultural and economic life of the Berkshires. "For the Berkshires to thrive, we need Tanglewood to survive," says BSO trustee Nancy Fitzpatrick, the owner of the Red Lion Inn, who is head of the Tanglewood Business Partners.  According to the

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