Rural Intelligence (Page 667)

Parties

Community Access to the Arts Spring Benefit

The Berkshires have become synonymous with "culture," but it's not just the world class museums, concerts and plays that define the county. It's organizations like Community Access to the Arts (CATA), which was founded in 1993, to nurture and celebrate the creativity of people

By Editor

Food

AgriCulture: Life and Death Decisions

AgriCulture bloggers Peter Davies and Mark Scherzer are the owners of Turkana Farms in Germantown, NY. This week, Mark writes: Spring mud is still with us. The mud in front of the barn is proving a challenge for our oldest ewes, especially Marina, an eleven year old favorite of mine

By Editor

Parties

Martha Stewart Leads the Charge at Trade Secrets

There's no one who shops as single-mindedly at Trade Secrets as Martha Stewart who paused briefly to answer her phone and chat with her one-time garden editor, Margaret Roach (left), the blogger (awaytogarden.com) and author of the memoir, And I Shall Have Some Peace There,

By Editor

Arts

StageWorks: An Evening with Celeste Holm

by Betsy Miller Imagine, at 19, making your Broadway debut, then a couple of years later originating the role of Ado Annie in Oklahoma, stopping the show night-after-night with the song, Cain't Say No. Imagine winning an Oscar for only the third movie you've

By Editor

Parties

Winnakee Land Trust's High Society Bash

The Locusts on Hudson in Staatsburg, recently acquired by hotelier Andre Balasz, was the glamorous setting on Saturday, May 14, for a benefit for the Winnakee Land Trust, an organization dedicated to protecting open space and farmland in Northern Dutchess County. At present only available for private functions (this event

By Editor

Food

AgriCulture: Kybele Gets Her Dream House

AgriCulture bloggers Peter Davies and Mark Scherzer are the owners of Turkana Farms in Germantown, NY. This week, Peter writes: It has been well over ten years now since we restored our then collapsing barn into a working sheep barn. And we had almost forgotten the arduous process we went

By Editor

Food

The Passionate Farmer Behind Paley's Farm Market

Charlie Paley is a fourth generation farmer who knows that the locavore movement in our region depends—ironically— on out-of-towners. "I can tell when the train has arrived at the Wassaic station," he says cheerfully as he stand outside of Paley's Farm Market on

By Editor

Parties

Construct Inc. Builds a Better Community

Monday is traditionally chef's night off in most of the Berkshires, but many of the best cooks and most generous restaurateurs were serving delicious tastings last Monday to the throngs at the Mayfest fundraiser for Construct Inc., a not-for-profit organization that provides comprehensive housing, support and

By Editor

Style

Trade Secrets: The Garden Season's Big Kickoff May 14 & 15

One of the reasons why Trade Secrets, the massive rare plant and garden antiques sale on May 14, is such an enchanting event is its setting: Lion Rock Farm, a 600 acre property on the Salisbury/Sharon, CT, border with breathtaking views of rolling hills and the Taconic range. Owner

By Editor

Community

Geo-caching, Where's Waldo for Techies

By Betsy Miller Unbeknownst to most of us, thousands of tiny treasures are hidden in the woods, and on the highways and by-ways of this area. And not just here. All over the world individuals are hiding containers as large as bread boxes and as small as ink pen

By Editor

Style

Florence de Dampierre's New Book on Walls that Talk

If they were less witty and exuberant, it might be tempting to describe the books written by Florence de Dampierre (her 5th, Walls: The Best of Decorative Treatments, has just been published by Rizzoli) as reference works. Thorough and intelligent, rich in history and anecdote, they are rarities—"coffee

By Editor

Food

Bread Alone

For those who love artisan breads and the basics done right

By Lisa Green