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Amy Traverso, senior lifestyle editor of Yankee Magazine, gives a behind-the-scenes peek into an article from the September/October 2013 issue about Matt Jennings and his artisan dinner dedicated to the growers that all contribute to the success of his restaurant, Farmstead. Read the Article: Many Farms, One Table Buy the Issue: September/October 2013
New England’s autumn progression is in a bit of a holding pattern this week as we wait for the tropical air associated with Isaac’s remnants to pass. It’s not at all unusual to have a warm week or two in September, and tropical remnants work through New England with regularity as well, so I don’t […]
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The Encyclopedia of Fall: H is for Hunter’s Moon
We harvested more potatoes today, on a warm, clear October afternoon, geese threading south high above. With the first killing frost a few days ago, we now light a fire at night, but steadfastly refuse to turn on the heat during the day. Here in central Vermont, the temperature went down to 58 in the […]
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The Encyclopedia of Fall: G is for Ghost
David Pitkin, whose ancestors were early settlers of Connecticut, has been fascinated with the afterlife and the unconscious mind since 1968, when he heard a ghost walking through a barn in New York’s northern Oneida County. Over the years, he has collected more than 800 tales of hauntings and apparitions, which he has published in […]
Jud’s New England Journal For September 2012 Welcome to the September 2012 edition of Jud’s New England Journal, the rather curious monthly musings of Judson Hale, the Editor-in-Chief of Yankee Magazine, published since 1935 in Dublin, N.H About Our Hard Cider – And, Yes, Our Hard Tea, Too It’s difficult for outsiders to believe how […]
New England
A Year After Irene, a New Normal in New England
This week marks the one year anniversary of the landfall of Hurricane Irene, and subsequent devastation and disruption that the storm caused throughout our region. The storm was a tremendous reminder of the forces that shaped the land and landscape that we love, and that though we celebrate her beauty, Mother Nature’s power is not […]
New England
A Brief History
7000 B.C. The first maples appear on the New England landscape. New Jersey tourists soon follow. September 1818 Mass.’ Topsfield Fair, now one of the oldest existing agricultural fairs in the country, opens. September 7-8, 1846 Henry David Thoreau, with friends, makes his first ascent of Maine’s Mount Katahdin. His finding: “Nature was here something […]
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The Encyclopedia of Fall: F is for Fungi
Foraging–the fine art of scouring the countryside in search of edibles–predates the ubiquitous farm-to-table movement by at least two million years. Even today, it’s not a bad skill to master, and certainly in New England it’s hard to imagine anything more inherently Yankee: free-ranging off the land (or free anything, for that matter) plus tasty […]
New England
The Encyclopedia of Fall: E is For Big E
The Big E began in 1917, when Joshua L. Brooks opened an agricultural fair in West Springfield, Massachusetts, to the public. Farming in New England had diminished, and production costs were escalating. Brooks’s vision was to bring the six New England states together to improve agricultural techniques through demonstration and competition. For a dairy show […]
I hewed the road out of wilderness in 1779 with my pickaxe as one of Colonel Hazen’s men. I took over the yoke in 1789 when one of the oxen sickened, pulling the sled the last hundred miles to Wolcott. I herded a thousand turkeys over to Boston in 1826, making twelve miles a day […]
Visit an apple orchard this fall and you’re just as likely to see folks munching on golden-brown apple-cider doughnuts as you are actual apples. Beyond the standard cake doughnut, cider doughnuts have apple cider added right into the batter, lending a touch of sweetness and a subtle cider tang that most people find dangerously addictive. […]