News & Events December 2012
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Edible Education: The Global Food Crunch Special Live Event On Monday, December 3rd, 2012 at 7:00 PM
Climate Change, Population Growth, Landgrabs, and Other Threats to Food Sufficiency
 Join Author and Five Colleges Professor of Peace & World Security Studies, Michael Klare
Klare wrote: "The Hunger Wars in Our Future
Heat, Drought, Rising Food Costs, and Global Unrest" here
and
3 Terrifying Things About the Earth We're in Denial About
This year's edition of the World Energy Outlook was greeted with jubilation when it revealed that the US might become top oil producer. But this comes at a catastrophic cost. Here
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This event will be held at the Clark Lecture Hall (click for map) in the Fisher Science Building at Bard College at Simon's Rock. 84 Alford Road, Great Barrington, MA . Enter through the main campus entrance off Alford Road. Take first right. Seating first come first served.
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America the Possible, Manifesto for a New Economy
Gus Speth
Friday December 7th at 7:30
Known as the "Dean of the Environmental Movement," Gus Speth is Professor at the Vermont Law School, Senior Fellow with Demos and the United Nations Foundation, former Dean of the Yale School of Forestry, former administrator of the United Nations Development Programme, founder of the World Resources Institute, co-founder of the Natural Resources Defense Council, and board member of the New Economics Institute. First Congregational Church 251 Main Street Great Barrington, MA Admission is Free Cosponsored by the Berkshire Office of the New Economics Institute, Community Land Trust in the Southern Berkshires, Project Native, BerkShares, Orion Magazine, Community Development Corporation of South Berkshire, Berkshire Grown, Sheffield Land Trust, Egremont Land Trust, and Great Barrington Land Conservancy. |
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Support Berkshire Grown farmers!
Buy Locally Grown +
Harvest -Your-Own Trees!
Frederick Christmas Tree Farm
Mike Frederick
360 Washington Road (Route 8)
Hinsdale, MA
413-655-8551 or fredchtr@vgernet.net
Choose-your-own trees
Justamere Tree Farm:
J.P. and Marian Welch
248 Patterson Rd.
Worthington, MA
413-238-5902
Justamere Tree Farm's Annual Holiday Choose & Cut Organic Christmas Trees
will be available on the farm Saturdays and Sundays in December from
9am-4pm. All trees at $35 with plenty from 3-8 feet available. Come by our
picturesque farm in Worthington, MA for a idyllic winter experience.
Explore our acres of trees and woods while searching for the perfect tree.
All of our Pure Maple Syrup products as well as our Handcrafted Brooms will
be available for sale at the farm, along with our handmade holiday swags and
wreaths! For more information visit our website or call the farm at 413-238-5902
Ioka Valley Farm
The Leab Family
3475 Route 43
Hancock, MA
413-738-5915
 Cut-your-own of pre-cut trees. Five varieties of Christmas trees and a hayride in "Santa's Cap" to the Christmas Tree Plantation. Open weekends from Thanksgiving to Christmas
9:30 am-4:30 pm. Café open for breakfast.
They also have an online Maple Store, Natural Beef, a Sugar House, Uncle Don's Barnyard
Visit them online.
Seekonk Tree Farm
Peter and Carol Sweet
32 Seekonk Cross Rd.
Great Barrington, MA
413-528-0050
Cut-your-own or pre-cut trees in six varieties. Open through Dec. 24th, Monday-Friday 12:30-5 pm and 9am-5pm on weekends, or by appointment. The website here gives you information on a variety of trees: Balsam Fir, Concolor Fir, Fraser Fir, Blue Spruce, White Spruce and White Pine. They offer the stand straight tree system, and if you want to cut your own they provide saws. They also have wreaths, roping and more.
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WHAT WE ARE READING
Thank you to each of you who joined and contributed to Berkshire Grown!
Read about a Winter CSA here Your support makes local food happen!
 Have you wondered: "What does a vegetable farmer do when the veggies are all in the barn? "Well, really we are setting things up for the future, making infrastructure improvements which will pay dividends in the years to come," write Chris Cashen and Katie Smith of the Farm at Miller's Crossing, read more here
Remember to join a CSA for the 2013 season to help farmers plan ahead.
Find CSAs on Berkshire Grown's Map-o-llicious.
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Events
On Friday, November 30,
Carole Murko's Heirloom Meals Christmas Special at the Norman Rockwell Museum with a special dinner at Murko's house following the screening.
6:00pm - Reception and screening at Norman Rockwell Museum
8:00pm - Dinner at Boulderwood
Tickets
$15 for an eggnog reception and screening
$75 for the reception, screening and dinner
For REEL Friends, the reception and screening is $10 and $50 for the reception, screening and dinner -- A collaboration with Berkshire International Film Festival
RSVP
lauren@biffma.org or 413.528.8030 by Monday, November 26
Carole also ventures to Shelburne Farms, VT to chat with their cheesemaker about sustainable farming, an ever-present theme in Heirloom Meals' shows.
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What We're Watching
Proposition 37, the California Proposition that did not pass. PROP 37 would have required labels Genetically Modified Food. Listen What brought Food to visibility as a political issue?
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Quick Bites
DISCOVER THE:
Berkshire Grown Online Farmers' Market
a 24 hour Farmers' Market!
 Berkshire Grown has created a Facebook page
called Berkshire Grown Online Farmers' Marketplace - a central place for Berkshire Grown members to congregate and talk supply and demand.
Self-propelled by Berkshire Grown members, the page will benefit those of you who choose to participate in it. Farmers and food producers can post what they have available, and chefs and community members can comment or contact suppliers directly with requests for product or more information.
Thanks for the photo to Nichole Calero, taken at Hawthorne Valley Farm
Berkshire Grown offers this as a networking service and bears no responsibility for transactions.
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MASSACHUSETTS GROWN...and FRESHER!
If you are traveling through Massachusetts check out this map, support our local farmers throughout the state!
CHECK OUT MAP-O-LICIOUS FOR FRESH
LOCAL EGGS, CHEESE, MEAT & MORE
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 Stay In touch!
Berkshire Grown's e-newsletter comes out monthly. Please send information to barbara@berkshiregrown.org, thanks! Join Berkshire Grown here.
Barbara Zheutlin, Director
Sheryl Lechner, Outreach Coordinator
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Join us at THE FARMERS' MARKETS 
Photos by Peter Cherneff from the Holiday Farmers' Market in Great Barrington, Nov. 17, 2012
