Berkshire Mountain Distillers’ New Locale
By Babs Perkins Seven years ago Chris Weld bought a farm that would become home to the first legal distillery in Massachusetts since prohibition, Berkshire Mountain Distillers (BMD). Last fall he upped stakes and moved his award-winning operation out from the shadow of East Mountain in Sheffield and set up shop in a brand-new, custom-built […]
Community News—February 2015
GMF Lecture Come hear Researcher Robert E. Marra, Ph.D. of the Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station discuss how he uses tomography in his tree research at Great Mountain Forest to assess the extent of internal decay in northern hardwoods, and how that affects our understanding of the role that forests play in combatting climate change. Lecture […]
Norfolk Then . . .
It was February of 1933, and a large crowd gathered at Canaan Mountain to watch the Norfolk Winter Sports Association (NWSA) annual ski-jumping competition. The 150-foot natural slope had just been completed to designs by Scandinavian skier Birger Torrissen and built by John Mulville. Torrissen was among a group of Olympic competitors who had been […]
Farmers Market Plows on Through Winter Months
Thriving from May to October for eight years strong, the Norfolk Farmers Market now has a winter presence as well. Moving inside, to the second floor of town hall, for the cold weather months, food vendors sell their products twice a month from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Winter markets will be held on February […]
