Yesterday’s New York Times ran a thoughtful article entitled “Is a Food Revolution Now in Season?” making a whirlwind of connections, from the success of Expo West to a sneak peak of the documentary Food Inc., to the political shifts evidenced by Obama’s appointment of Tom Vislack to Secretary of Agriculture, to Alice Waters and Michael Pollan (even suggesting that Pollan’s “The Omnivore’s Dilemma” is on the night-stands of an amazing number of members of Congress), to thoughts from industry leaders like Gary Hirshberg.

I can feel the winds of change in the air, can you? A new consciousness is building that’s connecting the dots in ways that never seemed possible before. > more

The New York Times recently featured a write up and photo essay on our little rural town in Western Massachusetts.

Warning: The writer is a bit guilty of a few romantic notions and factual errors about our little town of 1,746, but captures some of its quirky and idealistic spirit. I’m told that since the article appeared there has been an influx of queries from New Yorkers to local real estate agencies. > more