THE BERKSHIRE GROWN VISION
Berkshire Grown envisions a community where healthy farms define the open landscape, where a wide diversity of fresh, seasonal food and flowers continue
to be readily available to everyone, and where we celebrate our agricultural bounty by buying from our neighboring family farms and savoring their distinctive
Berkshire harvest.
HARVEST SUPPER MONDAY SEPTEMBER 20
Celebrate the Harvest, join us for a Benefit for Berkshire Grown on Monday September 20th at 6:30 pm at Eastover Hotel and Resort in Lenox, MA
Farm Fresh and Local Food and Drink
Tastings, Silent Auction and Drawing
Reserve your ticket now, this event sells out!
413-528-0041
Tickets $65
Berkshire Grown members $55
Details, including participating restaurants here
Preserving the Bounty: Workshops September 2010
Keep checking this website for updates/ changes/ details:
Please call each workshop for details, each class is unique!
September 9, 2010: 11 - 12pm Shaker Cooking with Michael Roller at Hancock Shaker Village, Pittsfield 413-443-0188 $17 or free for members of Hancock Shaker Village
September 11: 9 am - 3 pm Tomato sauce, yoghurt making from raw milk; lacto-fermented dilly beans and other vegetables + more, with Fiona deRis of S.O.L. (Seasonal, Organic, Local) Kitchen Catering in New Marlborough. To register, visit NOFA or call 413-658-5374, ben.grosscup(at)nofamass(dot)org $45 NOFA members and $50 non members
September 11: 2 pm at Wild Oats Market, Williamstown
Salsa canning, Limited space, call Michael Faber 413-458-8060 $10
September 13: 4 pm Lacto Fermentation of seasonal vegetables with Seth Travins (who makes sauerkraut) at Berkshire Co-op Market, Great Barrington 413-528-9697 free
September 16: 7 - 10pm Ketchup with Carole Murko Heirloom Meals, Stockbridge, carole(at) boulderwoodgroup(dot)com, 413-298-0173 $25
September 18: 10 -12:30 Preserving Herbs for the winter (freezing herbs) with Amy Cotler author of The Locavore Way, West Stockbridge amy(at)freshcotler(dot)com, 413-232-7174
September 19: 9 - 12 pm Join Elyse Etling and Katherine Miller at Pronto Cooking School in Lenox. Dehydrator and pickling.... Menu posted on web site. Reservations: elyseetling(at)aol(dot)com 413-637-3949 $50
September 19: 3 pm Honey lavender poached port pears with Chris Bonnivier/ Gala Restaurant, Williamstown 413-458-9611 x517
September 21: 9 -11:30 am Pickling with Lauren Gotlieb /Mezze Bistro + Bar takes place at Sheep Hill, Williamstown call 413-458-0123 $25
September 25: 10 am Pickling with Andy McMeekin at Ward's Nursery and Garden Center, Gt. Barrington 413-528-0166
September 25: 10 am Pickling workshop for kids with Jenny Schwartz at Berkshire Co-op, Great Barrington 413-528-9697 free
September 25: 4 - 7pm Harvest Cooking Guido's Fresh Marketplace and The Marketplace Kitchen focus on tomato sauce, will include dinner, takes place at The Marketplace Kitchen, Sheffield, call 413-442-9912 x122 for reservations and details
October 10: 2:30 -4:30 Sherri Brooks Vinton, author of "Put 'Em Up" Storey Publishing's newest book on preserving food, at Allium Restaurant + Bar, 413-528-2118 $25
Updates here
The Town that Food Saved: A Report from Hardwick, VT
If you missed the wonderful events on Wednesday June 16, 2010, click on the link to hear a report.
Ben Hewitt, the author of "The Town That Food Saved," spoke and signed books in North Adams.
And you can paste in this link to find out more about the book: benhewitt.com
Listen to a report on the event here
USDA LAUNCHES 'Know Your Farmer' on the web
In The News
* Agriculture Deputy Secretary Merrigan Launches Website for 'Know Your Farmer, Know Your Food'; Plans Facebook Chat to Expand Conversation on Local Food Systems
* USDA Launches New Web Pages and On-Line Tools to Help Consumers Make Healthier Food Choices
Discover the new website: Know Your Farmer
Local Goods & Gifts -- Support Your Community through innovative fund-raising
Are you searching for a way to raise funds for the local school?
Explore our Local Goods & Gifts Program!
We are in the midst of updating the costs and adding new products, so please call Julie Scott at 413-528-4794 for the new prices of locally produced goods.
Hope you'll join in supporting the community!
Overview of Local Goods & Gifts (but please ignore prices)
Berkshire Grown has a page on FACEBOOK
