On a warm and quiet day, Elisa Spungen Bildner was sitting with Kim Wells, the farmer at East Mountain Farm in Williamstown. They had walked up into the woods where his pigs forage in summer …
Read articleNative plant nurseries bloom in small towns and reach out to local farms and land trusts. Garden centers have grown here for generations, from local farms to the Berkshire Botanical Garden in Stockbridge.
Farmers Markets ripen across the Berkshires in summer
A table at the front holds hand-turned bowls. I once saw that dark rippling on creamy wood in an old farmhouse near here, and the man who lived there told me it was spalted maple, and fungi cause that pattern, but they often leave the wood too brittle to work, so […]
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