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Thanksgiving Dinner: Tips & Recipes

Dinner on Thanksgiving Day is a meal when extended family and friends come together to celebrate and share the harvest. It’s a holiday when we talk a lot about food, sharing cooking tips and family recipes.

In year’s past we ask our readers to share what they serve for their Thanksgiving Dinner and to offer cooking tips, starting with kitchen tips on how to cook a turkey, followed by a request for favorite vegetarian dishes to cook up too

Category: Food, Local Food, Seasons at Our Table Tags: Community Life, dinner, Food, Harvest, Harvest Supper, How to Cook a Turkey, Local Food, Massachusetts, New England, Thanksgiving Dinner, Vegetarian Thanksgiving, western massachusetts

A Year in Review: A Photo Journey with Hilltown Families

Western MA in 2012: A Year in Photos

Category: Hilltown Families Tags: 2012, A Year in Review, Berkshires, Community Life, Hilltown, Photographs, Photography, photos, Pioneer Valley, western massachusetts

Seasons at Our Table: Harvest Season

Harvest Season Dinner on Thanksgiving Day is a meal when extended family and friends come together to celebrate and share the harvest. It’s a holiday when we talk a lot about food, sharing cooking tips and family recipes.. and it’s the final season we’ll be featuring in our 3-part series, Seasons at Our Table. Taking a look back this year, at the beginning of Maple Sugar Season in late February, we invited… Read More

Seasons at Our Table: Farmers’ Markets

Farmers’ Market Season At the beginning of the summer we invited our readers to share a family recipe using fresh local produce. Below we’re highlighting 13 submissions our readers posted, featuring local produce often bought fresh from our farmers’ markets and road side stands! Get inspired and thinking about how you can use locally grown fresh produce for your family dinner! Kat Allen of Northampton writes: I’m not a great cook, and… Read More

Category: Food, Seasons at Our Table Tags: Community Life, dinner, Farming, Food, Local Food, Maple Sugar, Maple Sugar Season, Maple Sugaring, Massachusetts, New England, western massachusetts

Seasons at Our Table: Maple Sugar

Maple Sugar Season At the beginning of Maple Sugar Season we invited our readers to share with us how Maple Sugar Season gets their family outdoors and participating in the harvest with their community. We also invited them to share their favorite recipe that they like to make for/with their family breakfast/brunch hour. The feedback was warming and the recipes delicious and inspiring! Here are recipes our Western MA friends and neighbors… Read More

Category: Food, Seasons at Our Table Tags: Community Life, Farming, Local Food, Maple Sugar, Maple Sugar Season, Maple Sugaring, Massachusetts, New England, western massachusetts

A Look Back: Images and Memories of Community Life in Western MA in 2011

QUESTION AND ANSWERS Reflect back over 2011… What was your favorite memory of community life in Western MA? Kerri Simonelli of Haydenville, MA remembers, “So many great things happening in the Valley but one that stands out is recently participating in the Hot Chocolate Run. Being a small part of something so big, such an important fund raiser, running with friends and SO MANY other people, having my family (and everyone else… Read More