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Enjoy Berkshire Grown Restaurant Week Sunday June 6th through June 10th!
Fabulous three course dinners for the crazy price of $25.10 per person (+ gratuity and tax) featuring locally grown food! Each Berkshire Grown member card is good for two dinners each of the nights of Restaurant Week, you can join at the restaurants.
Please call ahead to find out when they are open and make reservations. You should also ask about the special menu in case you have dietary restrictions. We want you and the restaurants to enjoy restaurant week so please call ahead so that you find out what you need to know. Remember to be generous when tipping your servers!
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WHAT WE'RE WATCHING:
Bananas!
at BIFF, the Berkshire International Film Festival
Sun, Jun 6 - 11:30AM at The Triplex in Great Barrington
Then have Brunch at Castle Street Caf�
 Juan "Accidentes" Dominguez is on his biggest case ever. On behalf of twelve
Nicaraguan banana workers he is tackling Dole Food in a ground-breaking legal
battle for its use of a banned pesticide that was known by the company to cause
sterility.
Can he beat the giant, or will the corporation get away with it? In
the suspenseful documentary BANANAS!, filmmaker Fredrik Gertten sheds new
light on the global politics of food.
New
England Premiere Print
courtesy of Oscilliscope
Q & A with Berkshire Grown's Executive Director
Barbara Zheutlin after the film; public is invited to continue the discussion
at Castle Street Caf� where people can purchase a brunch featuring locally
grown food
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What we are reading:
The Food Movement, Rising by Michael Pollan
in the June 10, 2010 issue of the New York Review of Books
Pollan reviews these five books:
All You Can Eat: How Hungry Is America?
by Joel Berg Seven Stories, 351 pp., $22.95 (paper)
Eating Animals
by Jonathan Safran Foer Little, Brown, 341 pp., $25.99
Terra Madre: Forging a New Global Network of Sustainable Food Communities
by Carlo Petrini, with a foreword by Alice Waters Chelsea Green, 155 pp., $20.00 (paper)
The Taste for Civilization: Food, Politics, and Civil Society
by Janet A. Flammang University of Illinois Press, 325 pp., $70.00; $25.00 (paper)
 Everything I Want to Do Is Illegal: War Stories from the Local Food Front by Joel Salatin Polyface, 338 pp., $23.95 (paper)
photo of Joel Salatin
"Food Made Visible" by Pollan:
 "It might sound odd to say this about something people deal with at least three times a day, but food in America has been more or less invisible, politically speaking, until very recently. At least until the early 1970s, when a bout of food price inflation and the appearance of books critical of industrial agriculture (by Wendell Berry, Francis Moore Lapp�, and Barry Commoner, among others) threatened to propel the subject to the top of the national agenda, Americans have not had to think very hard about where their food comes from, or what it is doing to the planet, their bodies, and their society.
"Most people count this a blessing. Americans spend a smaller percentage of their income on food than any people in history-slightly less than 10 percent-and a smaller amount of their time preparing it: a mere thirty-one minutes a day on average, including clean-up...."
Read the article in the NY Review of Books here
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Quick Bites
 June 16th,7:30 PM
St. John's Church, 59 Summer Street, North Adams
Ben Hewitt, author of:"The Town That Food Saved"
More information about the book here
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"Best Inn for Foodies" says YANKEE MAGAZINE
 INN AT SWEET WATER FARM
"The Berkshires may be full of cozy 19th-century inns, but none offers
such an effortless blend of contemporary folk art, luxurious bedding,
and gourmet food. The owner's passion for showcasing local farms, with
special help from the inn's own egg-laying hens, bears fruit with the
made-to-order breakfast."
1 Jct. Prospect Lake Road & Route 71.
413-528-2882
Berkshire Grown member Inn at Sweet Water Farm
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 "The Locavore Way"
Cooking Classes
with Chef/Author Amy Cotler
CLASS #1: JUMP START THE SEASON
Spring Celebration: Greens and Strawberry Workshop
Friday, June 25, 5:00-9:00 p.m.
More information here
Hawthorne Valley Farm in Ghent, New York
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Discover Berkshire Food Journal here
Wonderful stories about
farms, food producers and more.
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Events
THE MAGICAL WORLD OF BEEKEEPING
 An Introductory Workshop on Beekeeping
with Tony Lulek
President and Bee
School Director
of the Norfolk
County Beekeepers
Association
The Nutrition Center on the web here
Saturday, June 12 10 AM - 2 PM at The Nutrition
Center
Cost: $65
The Red Lion Inn's Berkshire Bounty Package The Red Lion Inn's Berkshire Bounty package features
membership in Berkshire Grown and a delicious bag full of fresh locally grown
produce to take home with you! The package also includes a map of area farms
for you to explore, two nights' accommodations in a deluxe guestroom, dinner
for two one night and breakfast for two each morning. The package is available
from $795 (including all taxes and meal gratuities) Monday through Thursday
from May 31 through September 16, 2010 and are subject to availability. For details click here  ORGANIC DINNER WITH SPROUTMAN
Friday, June
4th - 6:30 p.m. Berkshire South Regional Community Center and the NOAH
Center Programs invite you to celebrate Locally Grown Organic Food, Personal
Health & Wellness! Enjoy this organic, living foods, gourmet vegetarian dinner
while learning about, supporting and sharing wellness. This five course meal, prepared by Chef
Sproutman Steve Meyerowitz will also include a
silent auction full of healthy winnings! All proceeds from this event will
support NOAH Center programs at Berkshire South. LIMITED SEATING AVAILABLE! GET YOUR TICKETS WHILE THEY LAST!
Dinner tickets are $50 per person Call 528-2810 to purchase your tickets or for more
information.
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8th Annual Apple Blossom Bash at Hilltop Orchards
Sat.-Sun. June 5&6 from noon-5pm each day
This annual
rite of spring celebrates the agricultural heritage of the Berkshire region.
Rt. 295 / 508 Canaan Rd.
Richmond, MA 01254
Local: 413-698-3301
Toll free 800-833-6274
$20 per person includes one-day admission with:
- Gourmet hors d'oeuvres
- Wine-marinated beef and chicken BBQ
- Wine tasting of up to 13 different wines
- Souvenir etched wine glass
- Live musical entertainment
- Hiking (no trail fees)
- Entry for a chance to win a 2-night stay at the owner's
Garden Gables Inn in Lenox
10% of the proceeds to benefit Civitan Club of Pittsfield.
An organization dedicated to helping others through service.
Hilltop Orchards here
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WHAT WE ARE READING, part 2:
'Dirty dozen' produce carries more pesticide residue, group says
By Danielle Dellorto, Senior Medical Producer
June 1, 2010 1:31 a.m. EDT
CNN story here
 "If you're eating non-organic celery today, you may be ingesting 67
pesticides with it, according to a new report from the Environmental Working Group.
"The group, a nonprofit focused on public health, scoured nearly 100,000
produce pesticide reports from the U.S. Department of Agriculture and the U.S.
Food and Drug Administration to determine what fruits and vegetables we eat
have the highest, and lowest, amounts of chemical residue.
"Most alarming are the fruits and vegetables dubbed the "Dirty
Dozen," which contain 47 to 67 pesticides per serving. These foods are
believed to be most susceptible because they have soft skin that tends to
absorb more pesticides..."
Click for more info, and a Shoppers Guide to Pesticides
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 Stay In touch!
Berkshire Grown e-newsletter will come out
twice a month, around the 1st & 15th, during the growing season. Please send
information to barbara@berkshiregrown.org, thanks!
Barbara Zheutlin,
Director
Sheryl Lechner, Outreach Coordinator
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