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Tag: Berkshire Botanical Garden

The Self-Taught Gardener: Solace in the garden

Yes, the Berkshire Botanical Garden may offer much needed outdoor solace, but its new Director of Horticulture is livening things up.

by Lee Buttala
Posted on June 11, 2020
Radishes

The Self-Taught Gardener: The procrastinating vegetable gardener

Beware, impatient gardeners. If you garden like Thomas Jefferson, you just might lose the farm! Here’s better advice from our Self-Taught Gardener.

by Lee Buttala
Posted on June 4, 2020
Business

Business Briefs: Cultural sites to reopen; Berkshire Museum construction; raffle benefits food banks; Berkshire Immigrant Center fundraising; grant for Olana

BIC is the only program in Berkshire County that focuses exclusively on meeting the unique challenges of a continuously growing immigrant and refugee population.

by Emily Edelman
Posted on May 29, 2020
Life In the Berkshires

Bits & Bytes: ‘The World of Peonies’; virtual run; dance discussion; cohousing documentary

The event can be completed while maintaining social distance in one’s own neighborhood, at a favorite running trail or park, or even on a treadmill.

by Emily Edelman
Posted on May 19, 2020
Life In the Berkshires

Bits & Bytes: Hershey Felder livestream; online Mother’s Day Tea; ‘Wonders of Migration’; Beekeeping 101

Topics will include honeybee biology and health, hive installation, and hive management through the seasons.

by Emily Edelman
Posted on May 6, 2020
Business

Business Briefs: CATA launches online programs; CDC awarded tax credits; BBG welcomes Turnbull; nonprofit workshops; PPP at Salisbury Bank

Gov. Charlie Baker recently awarded the Community Development Corporation of South Berkshire an allotment of the 2020 Community Investment Tax Credit Program in the amount of $150,000.

by Emily Edelman
Posted on April 30, 2020
Life In the Berkshires

Bits & Bytes: BBG plant sale; virtual 5K; ‘Dance in the Time of COVID-19’; BCC students in All-Massachusetts Academic Team

Berkshire South Regional Community Center invites participants to its first virtual 5K run/walk Saturday, May 2, at 10 a.m. to raise funds for its teen and youth wellness programs.

by Emily Edelman
Posted on April 28, 2020

The Self-Taught Gardener: Quietly overtaken

Good advice from our Self-Taught Gardener Lee Buttala: Nature renews herself. So can we.

by Lee Buttala
Posted on April 23, 2020
Life In the Berkshires

Bits & Bytes: Virtual Bulb Show; decluttering workshop; call for sculpture

Norman Rockwell Museum seeks 3-D, life-size, weatherproof, outdoor submissions that will be juried for awards by a panel of art professionals.

by Emily Edelman
Posted on March 19, 2020
Life In the Berkshires

Heightened food insecurity spreads amid COVID-19 outbreak

A growing sea of similar stories that swell amid these trying times – when kids are out of school, parents are out of work, and the infrastructure of community that so many rely upon in order to survive feels tenuous at best.

by Hannah Van Sickle
Posted on March 18, 2020
Farm and Table

NATURE’S TURN: William Robinson’s grand kitchen garden and wild gardens at Gravetye Manor

Tom Coward observed that gardens serve to connect people to nature and vegetable gardens provide, perhaps, the ultimate connection.

by Judy Isacoff
Posted on March 9, 2020
Life In the Berkshires

Bits & Bytes: BBG Bulb Show; Abraham Keita at Noble Horizons; CIA talk; ‘Tea Time With Simpson & Vail’

Loch K. Johnson is one of the nation’s leading experts on intelligence and has served on the staffs of the U.S. Senate and House intelligence committees as well as on the Aspin-Brown Presidential Intelligence Commission.

by Emily Edelman
Posted on February 25, 2020
Life In the Berkshires

Bits & Bytes: BBG Winter Lecture; Tracy Grammer at Spencertown Academy; Runa at Dewey Hall; ‘The Ice Famine of 1919’

Celebrating its 10-year anniversary as a band, Runa continues to push the boundaries of Irish folk music into Americana and roots music formats.

by Emily Edelman
Posted on February 19, 2020
Life In the Berkshires

Bits & Bytes: World music at Race Brook Lodge; American Mural Project tours; Laurel Hill meeting; French film festival

Mike Beck, executive director of Berkshire Botanical Garden, will present “Teaching an Old Garden New Tricks: How Berkshire Botanical Garden Is Creating Its Own Future.”

by Emily Edelman
Posted on February 12, 2020
News

Welcome to Real Estate Friday!

Kim Burnham of Burnham Gold Real Estate offers a charming gentleman’s horse farm, built in the 1760s but perfect for today. Plus, a selection of winter specials to buy now and enjoy by spring and summer.

by Marcie L. Setlow
Posted on December 27, 2019

The Self-Taught Gardener: Into the wild

An upcoming lecture at the Berkshire Botanical Garden will show why our Self-Taught Gardener, Lee Buttala, so loves the spirit of the wild garden.

by Lee Buttala
Posted on December 25, 2019
Life In the Berkshires

Bits & Bytes: Holiday Shop, Sip & Stroll; ‘Sense & Sensibility’ at Shake & Co.; ‘Unborn Sun’ at Berkshire Botanical Garden; Tony Trischka at Dewey Hall; ‘On the Razzle’ at Austen Riggs

New York City-based John Gordon Gauld holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts with honors from the Rhode Island School of Design and is a recent recipient of the Martha Boschen Porter Grant from the Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation.

by Emily Edelman
Posted on December 9, 2019
Life In the Berkshires

Don’t just stand there: Volunteer!

Underwritten by AARP Massachusetts, the volunteer fair at St. James Place in Great Barrington will give 35 nonprofits as well as municipalities the opportunity to meet face to face with prospective volunteers.

by Hannah Van Sickle
Posted on November 13, 2019
Life In the Berkshires

Bits & Bytes: Berkshire Pulse summit, performance; Alice Hoffman at Knosh & Knowledge; Tigue at Simon’s Rock; Cynthia Wick at BBG; Cantilena Chamber Choir concerts

The Brooklyn-based trio of Matt Evans, Amy Garapic and Carson Moody makes their own blend of instrumental minimalism while opening up the possibilities of instrumentation through commissioning and collaboration.

by Emily Edelman
Posted on October 17, 2019
Life In the Berkshires

Bits & Bytes: BBG Harvest Festival; Stockbridge Art Walk; pop-up art show; Peter Hand Trio; Glenn Miller Orchestra

The Art Walk is a self-guided tour of locations within the downtown area of Stockbridge.

by Emily Edelman
Posted on October 7, 2019
Life In the Berkshires

Bits & Bytes: Dog Days of Summer; ‘Particularly in the Heartland; Elihu Burritt Day; Extinction Rebellion talks; Monterey Library grand opening

Extinction Rebellion Massachusetts will hold three talks in the area designed to educate the public about climate change.

by Emily Edelman
Posted on August 13, 2019
Life In the Berkshires

Bits & Bytes: ‘Living Longer, Living Better’; Grow Show; Stockbridge Art Walk; ‘Screenplay by Stalin’; children’s music at Lenox Library

New to the Grow Show is a digital photography show, a children’s edible arrangement workshop, and the men’s floral design competition “Game of Flowers.”

by Emily Edelman
Posted on August 5, 2019
Life In the Berkshires

Bits & Bytes: Fine woodwork show; ‘Woodland Light’ at Chesterwood; GBHS antique show; alien balloon twisting

Twenty-five antiques dealers will be spread out on the Great Barrington Historical Society’s lawns, and the expanded Book Nook will be loaded with rare magazine issues, old volumes and lots of cheap books.

by Emily Edelman
Posted on July 23, 2019
Obituaries

Jean B. Kay, 84, of Great Barrington

She enjoyed various hobbies including oil painting, gardening, vacationing, antiquing, entertaining and making sure the wild animals who frequented her yard were well-fed.

by Edge Staff
Posted on June 24, 2019
Life In the Berkshires

Bits & Bytes: Whiskey Treaty Roadshow album release; Cantilena Chamber Choir gala concert; ‘Shimmering Flowers’ at Berkshire Botanical Garden; ‘The Civil War Ballroom’; ‘Local Politics Distilled’ forum

Based in New York City, Nancy Lorenz incorporates techniques from traditional Asian crafts, drawing on her years spent living in Japan and a 35-year career as a contemporary abstract painter.

by Emily Edelman
Posted on May 30, 2019
Life In the Berkshires

Bits & Bytes: Ukulele workshop; BBG plant sale; Howard Cruse at Berkshire Athenaeum; ‘Pleiades’ at Ventfort Hall

New this year at the BBG plant sale is the Plants-and-Answers booth staffed by the Western Massachusetts Master Gardener Association as well as by gardening professionals who will also provide practical advice on growing and caring for plants.

by Emily Edelman
Posted on May 9, 2019
Life In the Berkshires

Bits & Bytes: Live Out Loud conference; Martin Luther King Jr. tribute concert; ‘Nature Narratives’ at BBG; Cathcart, Klein on philosophy; Blue Art Show

Special guests the Urban Choral Arts Society from Baltimore, Maryland, will make a return appearance at the Cantilena Chamber Choir concert, and Martin Luther King Jr. will be remembered in poems and speeches.

by Emily Edelman
Posted on April 1, 2019
Life In the Berkshires

Berkshire Botanical Garden Bulb Show ends March 29

Berkshire Botanical Garden’s annual exhibition of New England springtime flowering bulbs heralds spring’s long-awaited, if belated, arrival in the Berkshires.

by David Noel Edwards
Posted on March 25, 2019
Life In the Berkshires

Bits & Bytes: BBG Bulb Show; ‘Gypsy Davy’ album release; awards for ‘Charley’s Horse’; mindful eating class

The Mindfulness-Based Eating Awareness Training program uses mindfulness meditation, eating exercises, instruction and self-reflection to cultivate awareness and help repair the relationship an individual has with food.

by Emily Edelman
Posted on March 2, 2019
Farm and Table

NATURE’S TURN: Gardens that welcome the wild

Arne Maynard revealed that he begins each project by looking to the natural environment for grounding and inspiration. He observes the wild plants and insects, listens to the birds and seeks out signs of other wildlife in order to become aware of the place that will be the setting for his garden design.

by Judy Isacoff
Posted on February 11, 2019
Life In the Berkshires

Bits & Bytes: BBG Winter Lecture; ‘ESCAPE’ at Geoffrey Young Gallery; Alexander Chee at Simon’s Rock; ‘BANG: The Bert Burns Story’ at Mason Library

Co-curated by New York art world veteran Hope Davis and painter and musician Sharon Gregory, “ESCAPE” is multi-dimensional, exploring a wide range of visual expressions and media including paintings, drawings, prints and sculpture.

by Emily Edelman
Posted on January 28, 2019
Life In the Berkshires

Bits & Bytes: ‘Scrooged’ at the Mahaiwe; ‘Plant Shadows’ at BBG; ‘Monument Man’ book launch; immigration attorney workshop; Oakes & Smith at St. Paul’s

A dark comedy update of Charles Dickens’ “A Christmas Carol” directed by Richard Donner, “Scrooged” stars Bill Murray as cynical television executive Frank Cross and Karen Allen as his kind-hearted girlfriend, Claire Philips.

by Emily Edelman
Posted on December 10, 2018
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