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Why Eat Locally
10 Reasons to Eat Locally Locally grown food tastes and looks better. Crops marketed close to home are picked at their peak and usually sold within 24 hours of harvesting. Food imported from far away must travel on trucks or planes and then it is stored in warehouses. Local food is better for you. The shorter the time between the farm and your … [Read More...]
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Watch Edible Education 101 at Atlantic.com now!
Berkshire Grown hosted a series of lectures "Edible Education: The Rise and Future of the Food Movement" coordinated by author Michael Pollan. From Atlantic. com: "This is a very powerful lineup such has never been accumulated for a single class," Pollan told students in his introduction to the course. If you're already asking questions … [Read More...]
HOLIDAY FARMERS MARKETS SATURDAY!
THIS SATURDAY DEC. 17: 10 to 2 Great Barrington and Williamstown details here … [Read More...]
Pick Your Own Tree!
Frederick Christmas Tree Farm Mike Frederick 360 Washington Road (Route 8) Hinsdale, MA 413-655-8551 or fredchtr@vgernet.net Choose-your-own trees Justamere Tree Farm J.P. and Marian Welch 248 Patterson Rd. Worthington, MA 413-238-5902 Choose-and-cut trees or pre-cut trees available in a range of prices, open 9 to 4 … [Read More...]
Alice Waters & Robert Reich: Wed. Dec. 7th at 7 pm
Wednesday December 7th at 7 pm at the Lecture Center, Bard College at Simon's Rock Videotape of Alice Walters and Robert Reich Alice Waters, chef, author, and the proprietor of Chez Panisse, is an American pioneer of a culinary philosophy that maintains that cooking should be based on the finest and freshest seasonal ingredients … [Read More...]
Feeding the World Nov 16, 7 pm Raj Patel
November 16 7 pm The Lecture Center at Bard College at Simon's Rock in Great Barrington "Feeding the World" The international food complex has changed significantly over the last twenty years. How does the food economy shape countries’ access to good food? Videotape of Raj Patel Raj Patel is a writer, … [Read More...]
