Williamstown Farmers' Market Opens SaturdayStaff Reports, 05:04PM / Tuesday, May 24, 2011 | |
WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — The Williamstown Farmers Market returns to the Spring Street parking lot on Saturday, May 28. The new hours of the market are Saturdays from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m.
There will be a wide variety of locally grown produce and cheeses, organic meats, homemade baked goods, and original handcrafted items.
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Raw milk cheeses, Tobasi and Maggie’s Round as well as newly added fresh, pasteurized cheese in a number of flavors. Also bread, cookies, muffins, scones and granola made in the in-farm bakery.
Contact: Lesley Graham, 413-458-5888 or www.cricketcreekfarm.com.
Williamstown’s favorite little cakes in chocolate, chocolate raspberry,
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College Offers Online Masters in Sustainable FoodStaff Reports, 04:26PM / Wednesday, May 11, 2011 | |
We've found a college course for locavores and local farmers that can be done right from home.
Green Mountain College in Poultney, Vt., has added a distance-learning master's degree in sustainable food systems to its offerings. Environmental studies dominate at this tiny liberal arts college in this very rural state so farming and sustainability seem a no-brainer.
According to a press release from the college, "over 30 undergraduate students already focus their academic work on food systems at the college. Four grants over the past three years totaling over $250,000 have enhanced facilities and supported faculty research
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Jae's Spice in Pittsfield ClosesStaff Reports, 09:44AM / Thursday, May 05, 2011 | |
PITTSFIELD, Mass. — The long-rumored closure of Jae's Spice has occurred, but over a lease, not sales, according to the parties involved.
Jae Chung's North Street restaurant and Shabu 297, opened in the former Pressbox around the corner, were shuttered Tuesday night.
The Berkshire Eagle reports that business partners Lawrence M. Rosenthal and Joyce S. Bernstein, the restaurants' owners and founders of the original Spice restaurant there, have declined to renew their lease with Chung.
Bernstein told The Eagle they would reopen the North Street restaurant next week as Spice Dragon with Huy Huynh and Phang Huynh, who own 20
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Farmfare
Seasonal Farmers Markets
Berkshire South Community Market
15 Crissey Road, Great Barrington
Saturdays through Oct. 27 from 11 to 3
Berkshire Mall Market
Sears parking lot, Route 8
Wednesdays & Saturdays through November from 8 to 2
North Adams Farmers Market
St. Anthony's Municipal Parking
Saturdays through Oct. 27 from 8 to noon
Great Barrington Farmers Market
Taconic Avenue & Castle Street
Saturdays through October from 9 to 1
Lenox Farmers Market
70 Kemble St., Shakespeare & Company
Fridays through Oct. 5 from 1 to 5
Oits Farmers Market
L & M Auto, 2000 East Otis Road (Rte. 23)
Saturdays through Oct. 6 from 9 to 1
Pittsfield Farmers Market
First and Fenn streets, across from the Common
Saturdays, May 11 through Oct. 26, from 9 to 1
Sheffield Farmers Market
Old Parish Church, Main Street
Fridays through September from 3 to 7
Williamstown Farmers Market
Spring Street parking lot
Saturdays, May 25 through October, from 9 to 1
Hoosick Falls, N.Y.
The Armory
Wednesdays, 4 to 7
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