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Don't Shop! Save the Environment, Become a Forager

By Betsy Miller Food forager Russ Cohen has a shopping list that’s a little different.  This week he’ll be looking for Dame’s Rocket Flower (left), which is currently rife along the margins of fields edging wooded areas.  When he finds the white or purple flowers, he’ll

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Food, Glorious, Food! Guido's Grows in Pittsfield

As Tanglewood is to music, Guido’s Fresh Marketplace is to groceries. (Or, if you prefer, it’s to food what Jacob’s Pillow is to dance and MASS MoCA is to art.)  Whichever analogy you like, it’s incontrovertible that the Masiero family’s grocery stores in Pittsfield and

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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

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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

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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

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Bread Alone

For those who love artisan breads and the basics done right

By Lisa Green

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AgriCulture: Awaiting the Impending Storm

AgriCulture bloggers Peter Davies and Mark Scherzer are the owners of Turkana Farms in Germantown, NY. This week,  Peter writes: There is a strange silence, an ominous stillness. It is around eight o’clock Thursday morning but instead of a steady brightening the morning continues to darken, the sky taking

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The Dream Away Lodge: A Boho Berkshire Dream Come True

You could call the Dream Away Lodge a living landmark. Surrounded by October Mountain State Forest in Becket, MA, the former roadhouse is a time capsule of Berkshire bohemia, the place where Bob Dylan (photo below), Joan Baez, Arlo Guthrie and Sam Shephard made a movie, Renaldo and Clara,  in

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Not Just Bread at Bread Alone Café & Restaurant

By Kathryn Matthews For over a decade, discerning carb lovers have been able to get their fix of artisan breads, from French sourdough (levain) and whole wheat sourdough (miche) to baguettes, challah and peasant bread—all made with organic flours—at Bread Alone Bakery in Rhinebeck village.  Pastries, too, like

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AgriCulture: Father Time Rules the Roost

AgriCulture bloggers Peter Davies and Mark Scherzer are the owners of Turkana Farms in Germantown, NY. This week,  Mark writes: "The clock is ticking," my father said recently with respect to an impending major birthday.  As if I didn't know.  His comment should have clued me

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Hudson's First Annual Ramp Festival

The ramp, that incorrigible first forage-able of the season, will be celebrated in all its odiferous glory on Saturday, April 30 at Hudson's First Annual Ramp Fest.  “The ramp is a harbinger of spring," says the event's organizer, Jeff Gimmel, of Swoon Kitchenbar in

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A Royal Opportunity for Harney Tea

The Harney family is living proof that you can create and grow a global business from our neck of the woods. The Salisbury-based clan who run their tea empire from headquarters in Millerton have developed some royal connections, blending special teas for Historic Royal Palaces,  the independent charity that

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