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News & Events October 2010
 
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.

WHAT IS SHARE THE BOUNTY?
 
Share the Bounty =  a win-win project
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Support local farms + help feed our hungry neighbors.

Every dollar donated to Share the Bounty works two ways:

1) Helps purchase fresh food from local farms, which supports Local Agriculture, preserves Open Space and strengthens our Local Economy

2) Fresh Food goes to a local food pantry or kitchen which distributes the food to hungry families
 
See Share the Bounty here on Berkshire Food Journal.

 Support Share the Bounty here
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Treat yourself to dinner at Wheatleigh during October! 
 
If you want to contribute to Berkshire Grown's Share the Bounty project, treat yourself to dinner at Wheatleigh during the month of October. Call for reservations: 413-637-0610.
 
If you make a contribution to Share the Bounty while dining at Wheatleigh, Wheatleigh will match your contribution up to 10% of your bill for dining.


CELEBRATE GASTRONOMICA - HARVEST DINNER
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 2

gastronomicaIn honor of Gastronomica's tenth anniversary and in celebration of The Place of Taste: A Symposium on Food, Culture and Community, Mezze Bistro + Bar will host a Harvest Dinner featuring local foods, farms and farmers on Saturday, October 2 at 7:30 p.m.

Chef Joji Sumi of Mezze Bistro and guest chef Brian Alberg of The Red Lion Innwill prepare the evening meal featuring an all-local menu of hors d'oeuvres followed by entr�e selections.

The prix fixe cost is $100 per person with a portion of the proceeds benefiting Berkshire Grown. Each guest will receive a 6 month membership to Berkshire Grown.


Seating is limited | Call for reservations at 413.458.0123
More info and preview of menu here.
                                 
                                                  

Thoughts on Food, Farming and Culture Wednesday October 6th, 6 pm

DISCOVER BASCOM LODGE

Enjoy fall on the top of Mount Greylock
 
Join Barbara Zheutlin, Director of Berkshire Grown for a short provocative free presentation:


readings+anecdotes - why is there so much passion for local food?

Dinner served after the talk and will be served Family-style, $25 Reservations required for dinner: 413-743-1591

 What We're Reading
 
 
MEET OUR MEMBERS:

Square Roots Farm is a partner in Share the Bounty


Notes from a new farmer: Q&A with Michael Gallagher, Square Roots Farm
By Ali on Ethicurean.com

"A few years ago, Gallagher turned to 'the only path that really made sense' to him: growing food in a sustainable way. He started Square Roots Farm, a vegetable and meat farm with a Community Supported Agriculture program that sets aside 20% of shares specifically for low-income residents. Read more



What We're Reading

Doctor's Orders: Eat Well to Be Well By KATRINA HERON

"...Dr.Preston Maring, 64, a gynecologist and obstetrician with three decades as a surgeon...blithely refers to himself as "that food nut around the hospital," he is serious about the role he believes doctors should play in creating awareness of healthy food choices....
"Food is at the center of health and illness, he argues, and so doctors must make all aspects of it - growing, buying, cooking, eating - a mainstay of their medical educations.
"To that end, he has worked to obtain fresh local food for hospital trays and in cafeterias. He began a Web site and blog......"
 Read more here in the NYTIMES

What We're Reading

Rural Intelligence joined us at the Berkshire Grown Harvest Supper, pictures here

 THANK YOU FOR YOUR SUPPORT!!!

Here is the HARVEST SUPPER menu.

Please support our wonderful chefs: eat at their restaurants!

Find the name of the delicious dish you want to remember from the Harvest Supper on the menu.
 


What We Are Reading

Meet our Member:
Community Cooperative Farm

Here's a great article about our new member, Community Cooperative Farm in Mt. Washington, owned by the Torrico family.

 
Quick Bites


MASSACHUSETTS GROWN...and FRESHER!

Visit a Farmers' Market, find one on
 Map-o-licious
Meet your farmers, enjoy the harvest!



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PICK-YOUR-OWN APPLES AND PUMPKINS!
 
Some of our members were hammered hard by the late freeze in May. Bartlett's Orchards  413-698-2559, for example, is closed for PYO apples because it had big losses in May when the trees were just setting fruit. But Bartlett's store is still open with retail apple sales as well cider and other goodies - so please consider supporting our growers that suffered losses this year by also visiting their retail stores. Use the "What's Fresh" link on our Web site to find all retail vendors for apples and pumpkins.
 
BE SURE TO CALL IN ADVANCE FOR HOURS AND AVAILABILITY!
 
PICK-YOUR-OWN APPLES:
 
Green River Farms
2480 Green River Rd.
Williamstown, MA
www.greenriverfarms.com
413-458-2470
 
Hilltop Orchards and Furnace Brook Winery
508 Canaan Rd.
Richmond, MA
www.hilltoporchards.com
413-698-3301 or 800-833-6274
 
Jaeschke's Orchard
West Rd.
Adams, MA
413-443-7180
 Lakeview Orchard
94 Old Cheshire Road
Lanesboro, MA
www.lakevieworchard.com
413-448-6009
 
Riiska Brook Orchard
101 New Hartford Rd.
Sandisfield, MA
413-258-4761
 
Windy Hill Farm
686 Stockbridge Road
Great Barrington, MA
www.windyhillfarminc.com
413-298-3217

 
 
PICK-YOUR-OWN PUMPKINS:
 Green River Farms (see above)
 
Howden Farm (weekends only)
303 Rannapo Rd.
Sheffield, MA
www.howdenfarm.com
413-229-8481
 
Ioka Valley Farm
3475 Route 43
Hancock, MA
www.iokavalleyfarm.com
413-738-5915
 
Mountain View Farm
45 Old Cheshire Road
Lanesboro, MA
413-445-7642
 
Riiska Brook Orchard (see above)
 
Taft Farms
119 Park St. North (Rte. 183)
Gt. Barrington, MA
www.taftfarms.com
413-528-1515 or 800-528-1015


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Congratulations to Sweet Brook Farm in Williamstown and Jaeschke's Orchard in Adams!

Both of these Berkshire Grown members have been recognized as Century Farms - farms owned by the same family for more than one hundred years. Sweet Brook and Jaeschke's were among dozens of Century Farms in Massachusetts honored at the Eastern States Exposition in Springfield on September 26. Read more.


BG logoStay In touch!

Berkshire Grown's e-newsletter will come out twice a month, around the 1st & 15th, during the growing season.  Please send information to [email protected], thanks!

Barbara Zheutlin, Director
Sheryl Lechner, Outreach Coordinator
413-528-0041