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  • Plenty #11: No-till and Urban Ag at NOFA/Mass Winter Conference

    Plenty #11: No-till and Urban Ag at NOFA/Mass Winter Conference

    Amazing no-till results, proof-of-concept urban agriculture, and learning “tracks” available for a curated conference experience

    Charcuterie techniques demonstrated during a 2015 NOFA/Mass Winter Conference session (submitted photo).
    Charcuterie techniques demonstrated during a 2015 NOFA/Mass Winter Conference session (submitted photo).

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  • Plenty #2 — Berkshires Author Alana Chernila Launches “The Homemade Kitchen”

    Plenty #2 — Berkshires Author Alana Chernila Launches “The Homemade Kitchen”

    Practical guiding principles point to cooking and eating habits that make sense for families.

    Berkshires author Alana Chernila launches her second book, "The Homemade Kitchen: Recipes for Cooking with Pleasure" in October, 2015; submitted photo.

    Berkshires author Alana Chernila launches her second book, “The Homemade Kitchen: Recipes for Cooking with Pleasure” in October, 2015; submitted photo.

    Alana Chernila has been piecing together a philosophy about food at least as early as becoming a mom. Her first contacts with preparing meals, often with vegetables she helped raise, goes back to her own childhood. Through writing about her journey in the culinary realm, Alana has crystallized her experiences interacting with ingredients into some common sense grains of kitchen wisdom. With “The Homemade Kitchen: Recipes for Cooking with Pleasure,” (Clarkson Potter, 2015) these precepts are offered to help the entire process of food preparation and enjoying simpler and, well, more pleasurable.

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