THE BERKSHIRE GROWN VISION
Berkshire Grown envisions a community where healthy farms define the open landscape, where a wide diversity of fresh, seasonal food and flowers continue
to be readily available to everyone, and where we celebrate our agricultural bounty by buying from our neighboring family farms and savoring their distinctive
Berkshire harvest.
Join us for the Harvest Supper September 15, 2008
Beautiful Bountiful Berkshires Harvest Supper September 15, 2008 at Eastover in Lenox, MA 6:30 - 8:30 pm
*** We're creating a Waste-Free Event this year ***
We depend on your support for our year-round efforts to promote local food and farms, buy a ticket to the event, help underwrite our programs, buy a ticket to the drawing!
413-528-0041
Click on "Blog" (left side of this page) for more details.
THANK YOU to the Berkshire Grown member chefs, beverage producers and farmers who are participating:
allium ~Baba Louie’s ~Barrington Brewery ~Berkshire Mountain Distillers ~Bistro Zinc ~Café Latino ~Café Reva ~Canyon Ranch ~Castle Street Cafe ~Chester Hill Winery ~Chez Nous ~Helsinki ~Jae’s Spice ~John Andrew’s ~La Terrazza ~Marketplace Kitchen ~Martin’s Restaurant ~Mezze Bistro + Bar ~The Old Inn on the Green ~Pearl’s ~Pittsfield Brew Works ~The Red Lion Inn ~Route 7 Grill ~Uncommon Grounds ~West County Cider and Winery ~Wheatleigh ~Williams College
Eat Locally, join the challenge!
Wild Oats and the Berkshire Co-op invite you to
Join the Eat Local, America Challenge!
The Challenge is to eat 80% of your diet, or four out of every five meals, from food produced locally. Wild Oats defines "locally" as food produced or processed within a 100-mile range of the store. Find out more about the challenge at www.eatlocalamerica.coop.
The challenge runs for one month, through Sept. 15, while local foods are abundant. Throughout the month both co-ops will sponsor events. At the end of the challenge, Wild Oats will host an Eat Local discussion evening where participants can share their experiences.
For more info including dates for Open House style tours of local farms from the Berkshire Co-op in Great Barrington, copy and paste this link:
http://www.berkshirecoop.org/news_events.html
Click for info on Wild Oats Community Market's Eat Local Challenge Events
Help find a farmer to create a new CSA in the Berkshires!
Understanding that finding the means to get started is one of the major challenges for aspiring farmers, Hilltop Orchards, in Richmond, MA, is offering to provide farm land on rent-free lease to an individual or group, to be used for a CSA farm (community supported agriculture). Hilltop is also willing to share farming equipment from their apple orchard operation.
"We are committed to local, sustainable agriculture in Berkshire County," said John Vittori, owner of Hilltop Orchards. "We are excited about the opportunity, in forming a CSA farm, to support a person or group who have the desire to farm but lack some of the key resources, such as land and equipment,"
Hilltop Orchards has an existing store at the property where the CSA shares can be distributed and other produce sold. The Farm Winery Store, which is open each Fri - Sun from 11am - 5pm, sells fresh baked goods and the farm's own fresh pressed cider and all natural lemonade. It is also the home of Furnace Brook Winery, the Berkshire's first farm winery. It is a popular tourist destination, featuring free wine tasting.
Contact for story: John Vittori - Owner 413-822-1681 Hilltop Orchards
508 Canaan Rd / Rt 295
Richmond, MA 01254
www.hilltoporchards.com
www.furnacebrookwinery.com
