Berkshire Grown Newsletter
--May 2013--
Support your local farmers,
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May 22nd 7 pm Reserve your ticket now!
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Join us! Make a reservation HERE
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 Welcome to a new farmers market:
Downtown Pittsfield
Farmers' Market
All New Market!
May 11 - October 26
Saturdays 9am - 1pm
First Street between Fenn St and Eagle St WEBSITE
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Berkshire Area
Farmers' Market
Berkshire Mall
Parking Lot
Lanesborough, MA
May 8 - Thanksgiving
Wednesdays and Saturdays
8am - 2pm
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Great Barrington
Farmers' Market
At the Historic Train Station downtown behind Town Hall
Great Barrington, MA
May 11 - October 26
Saturdays 9am - 1pm
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Lebanon Valley Farmers Market
On the green at the Midtown Mall,
501 Routes 20/22
New Lebanon, New York
May 19 - October 13
Sundays 10am-2pm.
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at Shakespeare and Company
70 Kemble Street
Lenox, MA
May 24 - October 11
Fridays 1pm - 5pm
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Norfolk
Farmers' Market
at Norfolk Town Hall
Norfolk, CT
May 18 - October 12
Saturdays 10am - 1pm
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Otis Farmers Market
In the parking lot of Papa's Healthy Food and Fuel
2000 East Otis Road
May 11 through October 12
Saturdays 9 am - 1 pm |
Sheffield Farmers' Market
parking lot
Rte 7/Main Street
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West Stockbridge Farmers' Market
Merritt Green on Harris Street Way in Village Center
West Stockbridge, MA
May 23 - October 10
Thursdays 3pm - 7pm
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Williamstown Farmers' Market
South End of
Spring Street
Williamstown, MA
May 25 - October 12
Saturdays 9am - 1pm
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Berkshire Grown initiates
The Beginning Farmer
Mentoring Program:
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Berkshire Grown has facilitated partnerships between beginning farmers (farming 10 years or less) with experienced farmers in the Berkshires through our new Mentoring Program.
"This project was supported by the Beginning Farmer and Rancher Development Program of the National Institute of Food and Agriculture, USDA,
Grant # 2012-49400-19591
. To find more resources and programs for beginning farmers and ranchers please visit www.Start2Farm.gov, a component of the Beginning Farmer and Rancher Development Program." 
Many many thanks to the USDA!
Jen and Pete Salinetti with their children at Woven Roots Farm, Lee, MA are mentors, sharing their experience with new farmers.
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10th Annual Sheep to Shawl Festival - Saturday May 4th
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Saturday May 4th, 11 am - 3 pm
671 Cold Spring Road,Williamstown, MA 01267
(413) 458-2494
 Shearers and herders, weavers and spinners, artisans, crafters, farm goods and barnyard animals.
Fiber crafts.
Food available for purchase. $5 individual or $15 Family (Members $3 or $9 family)
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Railroad Street Youth Project hosts:
Cinco de Mayo dinner
to celebrate the
Apprenticeship program. The youth culinary program works to create a more intimate experience between young people and local foods! Sunday, May 5th from 6:00-8:00 PM at Rubi's in Great Barrington
Tickets - $35 per person
(includes festive food prepared by the young chefs in RSYP's Culinary Arts Apprenticeship Program and their mentor (and President of Berkshire Grown Board), Chef Brian Alberg)
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Having trouble with Pollination?
David Graves will talk about Mason Bees
 May 9 at 8:00 PM
First Baptist Church, Parish Hall
88 South Street, Pittsfield, MA
Enter from the side door near the Co-Op Bank
Suggested Donation $5
For more information Call Bruce @ 229-8481
Sponsored by Berkshire County Farm Bureau, Berkshire Grown
and Keep Berkshires Farming.
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MUD DAY
Muddy Brook Elementary School Saturday, May 18, 11am to 3pm Great Barrington. Mud Day celebrates the Berkshire environment, hands on activities for the family, local food & more!
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 Project Sprout, a student-led garden at Monument Mountain Regional High School will be hosting their annual Cookout (formerly Pig Roast) to raise funds for Monument Mountain students to grow fresh produce for the cafeterias of their district in the on-campus vegetable garden. Tickets can be purchased at Route 7 Grill or The Bookloft any time before the event, or outside of The Berkshire Co-op Market and Guido's Fresh Marketplace on weekends.
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Hudson-Berkshire Wine & Food Festival
Sat.-Sun., May 25-26
10am-6pm (5pm on Sun.)
Chatham Fairgrounds in Chatham, NY
 The Hudson Berkshire Beverage Trail members* host inaugural wine and food festival Memorial Day Weekend -Tickets are $25 including free tastings and souvenir wine glass. Bounce house, children under 12 are free.
*Berkshire Grown member Furnace Brook Winery at Hilltop Orchards, Richmond, MA is on the trail.
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Films on farms & food:
Berkshire International Film Festival
Great Barrington and Pittsfield, MA May 30 - June 2, 2013 
2:15 PM Fri, May 31 Triplex GMO OMG Who controls the future of your food? GMO OMG explores the  systematic corporate takeover and potential loss of humanity"s most precious and ancient inheritance: seeds. Director Jeremy Seifert investigates how loss of seed diversity and corresponding laboratory assisted genetic alteration of food affects his young children, the health of our planet, and freedom of choice everywhere. BIFF details here. Sat. June 1: 11:15 Triplex
 LONGING FOR A LOCAL LUNCH, a Young Voices for the Planet" film produced by children's author Lynne Cherry, features Great Barrington students concerned about climate change calculating CO2 emissions and nutrition from local vs processed food. With community support-- including Smitty Pignatelli--they introduce local fare to improve student health through better school lunches. Monument student Zoe Borden asks, "Why not start here and reduce our carbon footprint by buying locally?" Indeed, why not? 1 pm on Sunday June 2 at the Triplex at BIFF here. Film is 10 minutes, plays with The Moo Man
THE MOO MAN Beyond an earnest and surprising look at where your food comes from, this is a heartfelt portrait of a lifestyle and approach of a farmer and his prized cow, facing an uncertain future. Sunday at 1 pm Triplex BIFF
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Making Lunch With authors Michael Pollan (Cooked, Omnivore's Dilemma) and Michael Moss (Salt Sugar Fat: How the Food Giants Hooked Us) by Emily Weinstein in the NYTIMES
 "Mr. Moss, 57, a New York Times reporter who won a Pulitzer Prize for his coverage of the meat industry (he's responsible for bringing the phrase "pink slime" to light), paints a fairly grim portrait of American eating in his book, depicting it as a never-ending meal of foods salted and sugared to extremes. Even snacks like pita chips and cereal bars, which wear the woolen ponchos of good health, are revealed to be as bad for you as Doritos or Snickers.
"To the problems Mr. Moss's book describes, Mr. Pollan's book  offers a solution: cooking, the way to avoid frozen meals, fast food and any other product developed in the name of convenience.
"Both men cook for their families, and decided that for their meal together, they would make dishes that regularly appear on their tables at home:" read more here
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What We're Reading
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From "Lessons From the Field: The Future of the Local Food Movement"
"Though many may not realize it, we live in an age where more and more people (especially young and educated people) are choosing farming as a career path... "
"The whole point of the local food movement is that agriculture should be more community based and farms more sustainable. But due to the high price of gas, seeds, equipment, land, and just about every source of input a farmer needs, it is very hard for a small farmer to make a profit... "The government needs to step up and help the community-based farm movement grow."
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Provocative reading from Salon.com: "The way food used to be:
The myths of foodie nostalgia"
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Food writers like Barbara Kingsolver and Michael Pollan entrance readers with their rhapsodies on the Way Food Used to Be, memoirists enthuse about trading their busy urban lives for a more "authentic" existence on a farm,
These narratives appeal to our collective sense of nostalgia: pink-cheeked farmwomen kneading homemade bread, mothers and daughters shelling sun-warmed peas on country porches, and multigenerational families gathered happily around the dinner table to tuck into Grandma's hand-plucked roasted chicken. As the oft-quoted Michael Pollan saying goes, "Don't eat anything your great-great-grandmother wouldn't recognize as food" (in my case, that would mean a steady diet of pierogies and cabbage).
Unfortunately, this cozy vision obscures the often-grimy truths about what cooking was really like for our foremothers and -fathers in the preindustrial, preconvenience era.
Provocative, read more SALON. COM
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What We're Watching
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 Food Forward a PBS documentary series that highlights food rebels across the United States - chefs, scientists, farmers, fishermen, teachers and others - working to create a healthier food system. Check out the website, here!
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 In the area?
Check out Berkshire Grown's
Massachusetts grown... and
fresher!
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Sheryl Lechner, Outreach Coordinator
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