I’ve walked into the Plant Connector on a winter night, whenNorth Adams is quiet, and Meg Bantle and Laura Tupper-Palches from Full Well Farm are teaching a workshop on how to make flower crowns.
Read articleThe Berkshires transform in the cold season, from January to March, with snow on the trails and fires in many hearths, quiet places for a hot drink and a time of calm and reflection.
Hands-on celebrations for Valentine week
Imagine sitting side by side with a quiet man in a slip-spattered t-shirt, in front of an electric pottery wheel. He is teaching you to center a lump of clay.
Read articleTamarack Hollow protects rare high wetlands
Aimee Gelinas and Daniel Cohen live in an island of Boreal forest, evergreens and moose, an ecosystem they feel is increasingly threatened by climate change — and vital in slowing it.
Read articleCinnamon rolls and soul music — #Berkshireweekend
What does comfort look like this week? We may have some real cold coming, and some fires need fuel. Even a small thing can add tinder …
Read articleMexican living traditions animate contemporary art
Internationally acclaimed artist Armando Guadaloupe Cortés invokes his native land in his installation at Mass MoCA and animates his sculptures in performances.
Read articleLegends walk when the snow flies — #berkshireweekend
Medusa came into a conversation at Wild Soul River. Walking out of the snow at dusk, I found a group of friends and neighbors talking about stories. …
Read articleA winter walk wakes an old Irish legend
The snow is still falling on the ridge behind my house when I set out, the soft, thick snow that holds onto branches and transforms the woods.
Read articleKarlene Kantner shapes wood-fired vessels
On a slope in West Stockbridge, the air smells of wood smoke and frost and the unmistakable, clean sour scent of reduction — fire pulling oxygen from clay.
Read articleA hot drink to keep out the sleet — #berkshireweekend
Today I walked out of the cold drizzle into Dottie’s Coffee Lounge and thought it must be about the warmest place in Pittsfield.
Read articleSourdough 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 …
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