Food AgriCulture: The Road to Turkana, Part 3 Peter Davies and Mark Scherzer are the owners of Turkana Farms in Germantown, NY. This week Peter writes: It's a new year and our sheep are on the qui vive, producing a baby lamb every few days, six so far. And all of them are black, their wool By Editor
Parties Dressed for Chill at the Stockbridge Sleigh Rally It was 8 degrees at 11 a.m. on Sunday, January 10, at Orleton Farm in Stockbridge, where the spectators huddled around a huge bonfire (which was stoked by shipping pallets) and sipped hot cider and hot cocoa to stay warm. Host Harvey Waller, the president of the Colonial Carriage By Editor
Arts Beatty Biographer Peter Biskind Talks Shop With Fellow-Author Sheila Weller Last week—vying with the latest economic, Tiger Woodsian, and failed-Northwest-Airlines-terrorist-bombing-blame-game news that was zinging around the web—was a certain number: 12,775. Specifically, it was the cool surmisal that, if you did "simple arithmetic," Warren Beatty has likely bedded a By Editor
Community Hudson On My Mind Scott Baldinger is a writer whose work has appeared in Harper's Bazaar, The New York Times and other publications. He has been living in (and taking pictures of ) Hudson for six years. This piece appeared previously in a slightly altered form on Melissa Stafford's website, Hudson By Editor
Food Tropical Butternut Bisque On a snowy day, this soup reflects my locavore’s craving for the Caribbean — coconut with a touch of fiery ginger and cayenne pepper party with butternut’s sweet silky texture. The Berkshires and Hudson Valley produce fabulous butternut squash, and happily the local stuff is still around. Roasting it By Editor
Parties A Magical Midwinter's Night of Music at The Mahaiwe Before the Mahaiwe Center for the Performing Arts opened in 2005, you had to wait for summer to hear the superstars of classical music perform in the Berkshires. So it was appropriate that Emanuel Ax volunteered to play a tribute concert on January 2 in honor of Lola Jaffe, who By Editor
Food AgriCulture: The Carnivore's Dialectic—Food for Thought Just before the holiday break, Peter Davies of Turkana farms in Germantown wrote about eating heritage breeds in order to save them (to refresh your memory, please scroll down). Enid Futterman, editor of the periodical, Our Town in Claverack, NY, wrote to Peter and his partner Mark Scherzer to express By Editor
Community Greetings, Neighbors! Our First Annual Holiday Poem Season's greetings, County Kin Let the merriment begin! Happy Hanukah, Merry Christmas Is it local? That's our litmus. The arts and farms help define us So much driving, the only minus. True, this is a magic region It's rural life that we believe in By Editor
Food AgriCulture: The Road to Turkana, Part II Peter Davies and Mark Scherzer are the owners of Turkana Farms in Germantown, NY. This week Peter writes: A few days after Thanksgiving, a doctor from Washington State left a message on my answering machine: "I saw those turkeys in The New York Times a couple of days ago By Editor
Community "Along Route 7" with Photographer Stephen Donaldson "I love Route 7," says photographer Stephen Donaldson. "It's not only the history of our region, it's the history of our country. It's the road the defines western New England." Stretching from Norwalk, CT, on the Long Island Sound to By Editor
Food Last Minute Latkes for Locavores You don't have to be Jewish to enjoy these potato pancakes, using local apples, parsnips, onions, sour cream and potatoes—if you can find them. (I had trouble, but don't get me started; I'm proof that it's not always easy to practice By Editor
