In the heart of a Shaker garden, Pinaree Sanpitak has made an affirmation of life and force in a woman’s body and a Buddhist sacred space.
Read articleParks and gardens in the Berkshires can range from Gilded Age terraces to gathering places in the heart of town where volunteers tend the roses.
Flavor ripens at 328North — Micro and flower farm
Tu Le picks leaves of Thai basil and rubs them in his fingers in his garden at 328North. He can smell clove in the scent, and anise and cinnamon. The flavor brings back visceral memories.
Read articleWhat’s your first real taste of summer? — #Berkshireweekend
You know the feeling when something hits home and you feel your expression shift instinctively — like tasting something that surprises you with its flavor?
Read articleExploring country roads in lilac time
Lilac time is here now ... These are the few evenings in a year when I can sit on the front steps in the evening and feel petals blow against my shoulder.
Read articleWhat if we thought about what we want to feel in a garden? — #berkshireweekend
This is the transforming time, every year. We come to a day or two in May when every bare budding twig seems to open all at once ...
Read articleWe have liftoff into the Northern Lights (Nov 17 newsletter)
The berries make a vivid streak along the road, and there’s something buoyant about that wash of color now against a grey sky.
Read articleA woman in the woods at Field Farm in fall
It’s an unusually warm fall day when I find myself eye to eye with a woman resting in the grass … and she’s warm glinting bronze, a sculpture in the garden at Field Farm.
Read articleOlsen Farm feeds the community
Kristen Tool and her husband, Chris Wheeler, keep six hives near a massive apple tree that has lived here, like his family, for a hundred years. They are building contemporary ways to support their family farm — and food systems and food security in the Berkshires at the same time.
Read articleSculpture waits on the wildflower walk at Bennington Museum
A quiet man in a hoodie closes his eyes as though he’s praying, and in the meadow above him a man with rainbowed wings turns in the sun. At Bennington Museum the art is moving, and it’s coming out.
Read articleExploring Cummington and the hilltowns in summer
It’s quiet up here. Sometimes I’ll come up to the ridge to get away for awhile, out the back roads … and find unexpected and creative places.
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