Food Final Call for Corn-and-Tomato Soup "I should have called this Last Chance Soup," says Amy Cotler, who's been living and cooking in the Berkshires for nearly two decades. The soup is not only another way to savor the last corn of the year but also a last chance to use cherry By Editor
Parties A Feast in the Field at Farm Girl Farm What do chefs and farmers like to do when they're not working? They like to hang out together and prepare food, which is what happened on Monday night at Laura Meister's Farm Girl Farm in Egremont, MA. It was supposed to be an improvised and impromptu By Editor
Parties A Love-In for the Library in Falls Village The small towns in our region take pride in their public libraries the same way small towns in Texas take pride in their high-school football teams. So it’s not surprising that library fundraisers often resemble spirited pep rallies. There was no shortage of hometown chauvinism in Falls Village, By Editor
Community Rooms With A View: Bascom Lodge Reopens on Mount Greylock There's nowhere better to take in the fall foliage than a mountaintop with panoramic views, and once again, after a couple of years of work that kept the road to the summit closed, you can drive to the top of Mt. Greylock, which is the highest peak in By Editor
Community Walkway Over the Hudson Officially Opens This weekend marks the opening celebration of the Walkway over the Hudson, a 1.28-mile "linear park" for pedestrians, the longest walkway bridge in the world. The occasion is the culmination of nearly two decades of effort on the part of visionary community activists, led by board By Editor
Style The Must-See Brine Garden's 1st Autumn Open Day For the first time, The Brine Garden, in Pawling, one of the most exceptional private gardens in our region, will be open in the fall, when colorful leaves and berries highlight its complex structure. This garden is the magnum opus of its creator, Duncan Brine, a professional landscape designer and By Editor
Food AgriCulture: a Vacation From or On the Farm? Peter Davies and Mark Scherzer are the owners of Turkana Farms in Germantown, New York. This week Mark writes: We are eagerly anticipating our impending vacation. It has been three years since we’ve been able to travel together for more than a 4-day weekend. With the anticipation comes By Editor
Community Excursions: Hancock Shaker Village Holds a Country Fair Lots of towns in our region have Country Fairs to celebrate the harvest, and they are all charming and valuable in their way. But for ambience—sheer aesthetic perfection—it's impossible to beat the Country Fair at Hancock Shaker Village. The agricultural demonstrations, the wagon rides, the farmers& By Editor
Parties Berkshire Grown's 11th Annual Harvest Supper On the last day of summer, Berkshire Grown, the not-for-profit champion of the farm-to-table movement, held its annual harvest buffet where hundreds of guests tasted dishes made by local chefs with local ingredients. Some chefs and farmers, including Laura Meister of Farm Girl Farm and Daire By Editor
Food Raise a Glass To Food Writing! May It Long Endure "There is a communion of more than our bodies when bread is broken and wine is drunk. And that is my answer, when people ask me: Why do you write about hunger, and not wars or love." Long, long before there was a Julie and long before we By Editor
Community Two Chatham Alpaca Farms Host Open Days On September 26 and 27, Spruce Ridge Farm of Old Chatham and Chatham Alpacas of Chatham Center invite the public to visit their farms, meet their alpacas, and learn more about these inquisitive, charming animals. Alpaca breeders from across the United States and Canada will be open this weekend as By Editor
Style New York Botanical Garden Offers Courses at Bard Throughout the fall, the New York Botanical Garden will once again offer a selection of its popular gardening and landscape design classes on Saturdays at its satellite center at Bard College. The inaugural one-day course, Gardening with Ornamental Grasses, is this Saturday. As pre-registration is essential, our advice By Editor
