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Garden: Thank You, Very Mulch

The following is the first part of a new column for Rural Intelligence that seeks to answer basic questions for the ever-inquisitive back and front yard toiler, and is provided by the people who know best, the master gardeners at the Berkshire Botanical Garden in Stockbridge. The subject this

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Food

AgriCulture: Spinach Tales

AgriCulture bloggers Peter Davies and Mark Scherzer are the owners of Turkana Farms in Germantown, NY. This week Peter writes. Our fava beans, spinach, lettuces, cabbages, and swiss chard have germinated, and many other seeds are planted and not far behind. The earliest spring greens are coming in—a time

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Parties

RSYP Cooks Up a Storm at John Andrews

Fiona Breslin reports from Egremont.It was one of the first warm nights of Spring, Wednesday April, 24, and couldn’t have been a better evening to celebrate Railroad Street Youth Project (RSYP) and its spring culinary interns Table Dinner at John Andrews Restaurant . Under the tutelage of chef Dan

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Food

Out of the Blue and Into the Mouth of The Red Lion

Jane, an old anthropologist friend who has been living overseas for many years, suddenly announced she was coming on a visit to the Berkshires and wanted to take a day to revisit a number of her favorite places here. “Could we get together for lunch?" she asked. Expecting her

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Food

Craving the West: Masa Harina Beef Casserole

Berkshire native Alana Chernila, local politician, mother of two, and author of the cookbook, The Homemade Pantry: 101 Foods You Can Stop Buying & Start Making (Clarkson Potter), dispenses change and cooking ideas to readers and friends. She shares her peak-of-the-season recipes with Rural Intelligence to help

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Real Estate

An Award-Winning Bathroom

This 1988 Roxbury residence, designed by architect Anthony Ames, was distinguished with the 1989 Design Award of the American Institute of Architecture. That design expertise shows in the master bath, which is as distinctively modern and spare as the rest of the home. Precisely engineered, the design of the entire

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Real Estate

Bathrooms Fit for a Chateau

A Neo-classical interpretation of a French country manor on 70 acres in Spencertown, this house has European style, right down to the bidet in the bathroom with a glassed-in shower and large soaking tub. Truly grand in size and features, the 6,000-square-foot main house has

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Real Estate

Reflection of the Berkshires

There are views outside this Stockbridge home, but there are even better ones inside the mirror-lined bathroom. Brightly lit, the bathroom offers ample counter space for bathroom essentials. Located on nearly two level acres on a picturesque road, this residence offers classic style with modern luxury. The first-floor

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Real Estate

A Spa of Your Own

A large soaking tub and separate sauna set in a windowed and sunlit room: here is your private spa within this Lakeville home. The four-bedroom, five-bathroom home on 38 acres features a Poggenpohl kitchen with access both to the dining room and outdoor screened patio. Besides the ravishing

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Real Estate

Le Grand Bain

A bathroom big enough to double as an office? Maybe, but more likely it'll be the place to unwind with bubbles and a glass of wine. To get to this New Marlborough home, you enter through stone gates and up a winding driveway. Set on nearly nine acres

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Real Estate

Stunning in Black and White

You don't buy a house for its bathrooms, but for this one in Hillsdale, maybe you should. Black and white checkerboard, glass and sunlight, views out the window and a soaking tub and glass walk-in shower inside, it's a dream bathroom. And the house goes

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Wellness

It Takes Two To Tango

Dance was always Jackie Wong’s destiny. Her father, a Chinese immigrant, named her after his beloved dance teacher, and she grew up devouring Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers movies like ice cream. In the 1980s, she worked during the day as the manager of a bread and cheese shop

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