This first weekend in July, when you’re missing the customary parades and fireworks, go ahead and get creative: Chat up your local farmer; check out the local farmers’ market; introduce your family to a new vegetable; and get cooking!
Tag: Guido’s
The curious life of Rawson Brook Farm’s Susan Sellew
Today, Rawson Brook Farm can lay claim to being the oldest continuously operating commercial cheesemaking farm in Berkshire County.
TV in the time of coronavirus
CoronaTime offers the opportunity to appreciate the best of the great work our actors and writers and directors and editors and all the vital members of the crew bring to life.
No one goes hungry: Food pantry shifts into overdrive to feed growing need
Nobody’s selling apples on the corner for a nickel yet, but you can be sure the need has never been greater — not in anyone’s memory younger than 90.
April showers bring May flowers: Amongst downpour of bad news, kindness blossoms
Kindness has been as contagious as spring fever.
In the market for food: An entrepreneur prospers through the pandemic
Widener had already started a delivery business, the Berkshire Valet, and last year launched its MealGopher unit, which delivered meals from area restaurants to boarding school students in Berkshire County and Litchfield County, Connecticut.
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.
Distinguished Colonial
For the first time in 33 years, one of the area’s distinguished Colonial homes is on the market, offered by Sandra Preston of Sandra Preston Real Estate. This house makes a special statement.
Egremont Green News: Neighbors join plastic-reduction challenge
Instead of over-eating or over-drinking or over-spending, this healthy-living campaign targeted the over-abundance of plastic.
Alan Chartock: I Publius
Now we have a better understanding about what racing does to horses. It’s a bad idea.
Horse racing will increase traffic congestion
In a letter to the editor, Collin Lovas writes, “Additionally, it’s likely going to be a nightmare for shoppers attempting to enter jammed up Route 7 when horse racing events occur.”
All in the family: Celebrating 40 years of Guido’s
It’s no accident that Guido’s is considered the premiere purveyor of quality produce in Berkshire County. Locals to the Berkshires largely regard the store as a gem, as do visitors from near and far.
Egremont Green News: Egremont’s exemplary environmental achievements
By chipping away at our waste line and energy consumption, we hope our local efforts are joining a larger, worldwide movement.
It’s Not That Simple: Where should solar power installations be sited?
This column is a companion to the WSBS radio call-in show, “It’s Not That Simple.” Every other Friday at 9:05 we will discuss and dissect issues that the citizens of Great Barrington are talking about. Click here to listen to a podcast of last week’s show. * * * Have you ever
‘Being Black in the Berkshires,’ a forum on the black experience
“The fear that black families have when their children leave the house is the same as it was in 1909 [when the NAACP was founded].”
— Dennis Powell, president of Berkshire County NAACP
Can’t find decent help? ‘Workforce issue’ likely the cause
There are a variety of theories as to why the seasonal labor market has been tightening over the years. Birth rates have been dropping for at least a generation, and more students are willing to forgo a paycheck in the summer while taking a volunteer position or internship to build their resumes for life after college.
People’s Pantry reopens in its original home, St. James Place
Saint James Place is providing the space to the People’s Pantry at no cost. The pantry is staffed by seven teams of volunteers — four church teams, two synagogue teams, and one community team — that take turns working every Thursday.
Culinary Adventures: Laura Meister’s Farm Girl Farm
There are many paths to becoming a farmer but Meister’s struck me as delightfully unusual – she majored in Art History at the University of Pennsylvania, and went on for a Masters degree in the same field at Tufts.
Food & Wine: Bánh Mì sandwich, fusion of east and west
The juxtaposition of the umami rich Maggi Sauce with the unique taste of cilantro and the sweet and sour bite of the pickles in a cocoon of French bread slathered with mayonnaise makes for a wonderful fusion of east and west. This is the yin and the yang of sandwiches. Namaste.
Culinary Adventures: Great Barrington Bagel, more than just a good nosh
One frequently hears comments like “their chopped liver is as good as my grandmother’s” or “even my mother couldn’t make chicken soup that good.”
Culinary Adventures: The Old Inn on the Green
The Old Inn exudes the qualities one expects of the quintessential New England inn, with its rustic atmosphere, candle-lit rooms, seamless service, and, most importantly, elegant food.
Berkshire Grown Harvest Supper celebrates chefs and farmers
The Harvest Supper represents community and strengthens the bonds between chefs and farmers who have just finished a hard and rewarding season together.
— Daire Rooney, chef at Allium in Great Barrington
Rites of spring
Twenty years ago, in 1994, there were only 1,755 farmers’ markets in the U.S. By 2013 the number had jumped to 8,144, and this year promises even more.