News & Events - March 2013
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New this year:
Live Auction at The March Maple Dinner
- Wine Dinner for eight at The Old Inn on the Green
- A Week's Stay at Casa Miel, a home in San Miguel de Allende
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RESERVE YOUR SEAT NOW FOR THE MARCH MAPLE DINNER
Bid at the Live Auction on a week's stay at
San Miguel de Allende
Mexico
If you cannot be at the dinner and want to bid, please call 413-528-0041/ e-mail barbara (at) berkshiregrown (dot) org
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  CASA MIEL in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico Live Auction at the March Maple Dinner features a week's stay at Casa Miel, a home in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico. Much of the house opens to the courtyard with a beautiful fountain and plants. 
Walk in through an old wooden door on a small and quiet, cobblestoned street, and you will enter a secluded jewel of a home in the historic heart of San Miguel de Allende, a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
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Reserve Your Seat Now for The March Maple Dinner
& then bid with friends on a Wine Dinner for Eight at The Old Inn on the Green
If you cannot be at the dinner and want to bid, please call 413-528-0041 
" The Old Inn On The Green, which also is an Inn with antique-filled rooms, serves up-to-the-minute cuisine by chef and co-owner Peter Platt...The results of his efforts means diners can revel in times past while enjoying the culinary fruits of today."
- Boston Globe -
Feb 27, 2013
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WHAT WE ARE WATCHING
 Farmers and chefs on "The Meaning of Berkshire Grown"
on youtube
Watch Now!Inspired? Support us, come to the March Maple Dinner!
Reservations: 413-528-0041
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Fresh Films at IMAGES in Williamstown,MA Details here
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BERKSHIRE GROWN CHEFS BRING
"THE BERKSHIRE CURE-ALL"BACK TO THE BERKSHIRES
BEARD in the BERKSHIRES WEEK: MARCH 4-10, 2013
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Informal Q&A With Local Organic Farmers Takes Place at Wild Oats Market, Williamstown, MA on March 13, 4-5 pm
With: Lisa MacDougall of Mighty Food Farm in Pownal, VT and Jamie Snyder of Happenchance Farm in Eagle Bridge, NY. There is no cost or need to preregister.
 Jamie of Happenchance Farm raises vegetables, greens, melons, flowers, berries and more using certified organic methods. Two of his farm's largest crops are mesclun mixed greens and tomatoes.
Lisa (pictured at the Berkshire Grown Holiday Farmers' Market) and her crew at Mighty Food Farm grow a wide variety of certified organic vegetables, greens and berries, in addition to offering fresh eggs in their farm store and offering a year-round CSA, which provides a variety of share options for individuals and families.
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What We Are Reading
Five More Food Websites You Can't Live Without
by Beth Hoffman
See Forbes for all five websites, here are two:
1. FishWatch "Are you confused about whether or not it is okay to be eating seabass
? How is the salmon population doing now that the fish is listed on every menu in the country? The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has developed FishWatch
a website to "provide easy-to-understand science-based facts to help consumers make smart sustainable seafood choices... more here
 "This website was born out of the genetic engineering (GE) labeling movement, and provides up to date information about what is going on in the campaign to mandate companies to include GE information on food..... "
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What we are reading Local food a growing trend for land trusts
 "When a land trust in Grayslake, Illinois, made a strategic decision in 2005 to include farmland in its list of property types to preserve, it joined scores of traditional 'woods and waters' trusts across the U.S. which are increasingly preserving agricultural lands and building local food systems...
"While land trusts that specialize in farmland, like American Farmland Trust, have been around a long time, this trend of conventional land trusts wading into food systems work is much newer, and it's growing. Statistics shared by the Land Trust Alliance (LTA), found that of 912 member trusts surveyed in 2010, 22% reported that farm and ranch preservation was "very important," and 39% said it was "extremely important."...
Keep reading
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Quick Bites
Save the dates:
Sunday March 10th at 4 pm Stockbridge Library : Jake Levin
 Berkshire Grown Board member Jake Levin "is a nose-to-tail butcher/ artist, who loves to cook. He grew up in the woody hills of Western Massachusetts where his passion for local, fresh food was first instilled in him." from the butcher and the baker blogStockbridge Library Sunday speaker series Levin's talk will focus on his efforts towards creating a holistic and sustainable practice, one that erases the lines between being a butcher, he's the butcher at The Meat Market, being an artist, and being an active member of the community. 
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 Peter Cherneff.
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.
Thanks to BG Intern Rachel Moriarty!
Barbara Zheutlin, Director
Sheryl Lechner, Outreach Coordinator
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