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Berkshire Chefs Featured in Canadian TV Series

(STOCKBRIDGE, Mass.) – The ever-popular Berkshire Cure-All annual dinner at the James Beard Foundation, curated by executive chef Brian Alberg of The Red Lion Inn, is featured in a new TV series of performance-based half-hour programs entitled “Chefs of the James Beard House,” which began airing on Gusto TV in Canada on March 28. The…

Hancock Shaker Village Improves CSA Farm Program

(PITTSFIELD, Mass.) –  With the help of a $1,550 grant from the Green Pastures Fund, a fund of Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation, Hancock Shaker Village (HSV) has improved the cold storage capacity of the root cellars built by the Shakers in the 1910 barn complex for use by its CSA (Community Supported Agriculture) farm program.…

Joel Salatin to Speak on ‘The Sheer Ecstasy Of Being A Lunatic Farmer’

(WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass.) – Alternative farmer Joel Salatin will give a talk at Williams College about his book, The Sheer Ecstasy of Being a Lunatic Farmer, on Thursday, February 23, 2012, at 7:30 p.m. in Brooks-Rogers Recital Hall in Bernhard Music Center. The event is free and open to the public. Salatin’s book examines different aspects…