Today I walked out of the cold drizzle into Dottie’s Coffee Lounge and thought it must be about the warmest place in Pittsfield.
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Sourdough rises at Berkshire Mountain Bakery
Loaves of white bread are entering and leaving the oven on a long wooden paddle. Rounded boules cooling, rich with chunks of dark Belgian chocolate — and ciabatta, seven grain bread, potato and onion …
Read articleRare local flavors converge at Moon in the Pond Farm
Dominic Palumbo raises Highland cattle, Jersey geese and Dorset sheep, as he grows vegetables and forages for local flavors.
Read articleExplorations — Great Barrington in holiday season
One day when I had a story interview in the Southern Berkshires, I came early to wander through downtown Great Barrington, looking for locally made gifts.
Read articleThankful for the mountains — #berkshireweekend
Windy Hill Orchard grows rows of winterberry bushes every year. You can walk into a sea of scarlet higher than your head, and they’re bright even on cold, cloudy afternoons.
Read articleThe Old Stone Mill turns waste into wellness
Printmaker Leni Fried and metalworker Michael Augspurger are growing the Old Stone Mill in Adams as a Zero Waste Maker Space.
Read articleOn Halloween candle makers light a flame in the dark
A small flame in a wide, dark night has magic in it. When the sun sets early and the wind blows down from Canada, we still light them. And in this season I’m wondering who the Berkshires still makes them.
Read articleSunny fall days comfort us with apples (#Berkshireweekend)
Some of us picked up bags of apples from Lakeview Orchard — Macouns, Honeycrisps, Cortlands — and some were setting up in a friend’s kitchen …
Read articleLakeview Orchard beckons in apple time
On a sunny Saturday when the afternoon stretched clear ahead of me, I headed up to Lakeview Orchards when apple season was just coming in …
Read articleCatching the golden hours of summer – #Berkshireweekend
Sweet corn and peaches … the flavors mean late summer. We have a good month more of warm weather, but we feel the year begin to turn when the golden rod shows in the meadows.
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