Today Bix turns two. I fed him a big breakfast and let him go back to sleep in our bed. This is not so much different than his normal routine — he’s a lazy dog, and doesn’t get out of bed until we do, and likes to return there once he’s done with breakfast. Later [...]

One Local Summer hasn’t officially started up yet, but here in Berkshire county, we’re eating local several days a a week thanks to the amazing, beautiful bounty of the Caretaker Farm CSA. Tonight we had a positively sublime summer salad due, in part, to a bit of a cheesemaking fluke. From failure comes total deliciousness [...]

Oh, hello. Is it really halfway through June already?
So, the wee garden I’d worked so hard to cultivate this spring was reduced to a withering heap of green last week when a relentless and brutal heatwave descended over the Berkshires for three days. It was the talk of the town: at the library, the sweaty, [...]