Plain Farm News Today

Fine Woodwork Show & Silent Auction A fine woodwork show and sale featuring designs by professional woodworkers from the Berkshires and neighboring counties in New York and Connecticut.

Four Berkshire agricultural enterprises are among 12 farms across the state that have received a combined $4.7 million in Agricultural Preservation Restriction funding from the state of Massachusetts

Two Franklin County farms are benefiting from a total of $400,000 awarded to six farms throughout Massachusetts to improve their operations.Thanks to funding through the Massachusetts Department of Agricultural Resources, D.A. Smiarowski Farms in...

Two Franklin County farms are benefiting from a total of $400,000 awarded to six farms throughout Massachusetts to improve their operations.Thanks to funding through the Massachusetts Department of Agricultural Resources (MDAR), D.A. Smiarowski Farms...

A privately owned estate near Keswick has gone on the market for the first time in 100 years. The Higham Estate on the edge of Bassenthwaite Lake, went on the market with Edwin Thompson last week. The estate is home to popular local business, The Lakes Distillery and has been owned by the Fisher family since its purchase in 1904. The estates price has not been revealed. It is on sale via private treaty with the six restore properties being on offer as a bulk lot or for 12 individual b...