Category Archives: In the Media

February 17, 2011

Nudel

Chef Bjorn Somlo at Nudel restaurant in Lenox, MA was nominated for a Rising Star Chef of the Year by the James Beard Foundation. Nice!

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January 27, 2011

Berkshire Grown Online Farmers’ Market

Berkshire Grown and Facebook team up to foster our community’s drive to keep its food dollars local.

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August 24, 2010

A Joyful Step in the Right Direction

The title of this post is taken directly from Jennifer Maiser’s response to Stephen Budiansky’s New York Times op-ed of last Friday, titillatingly entitled “Do Locavores Need Math Lessons?” Ms. Maiser is the founder of the Eat Local Challenge, whose 2007 One Local Summer really spurred me into this locavore thing more determinedly. As she says so well, “Food miles are a very small part of the reasons to eating locally.” This is nearly exactly what I said myself upon reading the op-ed.

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December 28, 2009

Food Matters: From the Ground Up

Back in August, Berkshire Grown presented a series of food preservation workshops, one of which I attended. (Two miraculously un-botulized mason jars — one containing spiced pears and one with spiced peaches — are proof.) During the workshop, a couple of filmmakers were present, documenting the scene. For someone who likes to stay firmly behind [...]

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May 14, 2009

Big Local

Garlic scapes and beets at the Bennington Farmers’ Market Maybe 2009 will be remembered as the year Local broke. Today’s New York Times certainly thinks so, with a two-page article discussing the co-opting of “buy local” marketing strategies by industrial agriculture. Frito-Lay, the potato chip maker, will begin airing commercials featuring the farmers who grow [...]

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