It started as Small Business Saturday, an antidote to Black Friday and Cyber Monday. It’s since evolved into #shopsmall, a hashtag that we like far more. Because we should be looking out for our local, independents every day, not just the Saturday after Thanksgiving. These businesses are the ones sponsoring little league teams, packing Thanksgiving boxes, […]
We are so grateful to live in a place where we know where our food comes from, where we can put a face and name to our farmers (and vintners) and where we can actually visit the farms. Check out some of the places that can help make your Thanksgiving plate shine with South Coast goodness. Copicut
I remember going blueberry picking in Wareham and Carver with my grandmother and cousins when I was a kid. We’d come home with buckets filled with blueberries. My grandmother would wash and then freeze most of them. Then she’d make at least one pie for us to eat that night. I sat at the kitchen
We want you to have a delightfully spooky season but we don’t want to scare your socks off. Here are six quirky things to celebrate Halloween on the South Coast. We’ve ordered them in increasingly creepy order, ranging from “Bring the Kids” to “The Scariest Thing I’ve Seen on My Instagram Feed in a Long
2016 represents the 200th anniversary of commercial cranberry production in Massachusetts which makes it the oldest cranberry growing region in the country. With approximately 13,500 acres of commercial cranberry bogs in the state, primarily in Southeastern Massachusetts (that’s us! and Cape Cod, too), our farmers produce 15 percent of the world’s cranberries. Folks, we own
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We’ve been doing a lot of bike riding these days, training first for the Pan Mass Challenge and now for the Buzzard’s Bay Coalition’s 10th Anniversary Ride. We thought we might share with you some of our favorite local bike rides. They’re all roughly between 20-30 miles because we’ve found that’s the correct mileage needed
Sometimes I’m physically exhausted by how hard it is to stay hip and trendy. Is avocado toast still worthy of an Instagram? Why is everyone talking about “cold brew” and what happened to normal iced coffee? While these questions may plague me with uncertainty, one thing is for sure: yoga is still hot. Luckily, the
The First Zero Net Energy Campus Science Lab in the Northeast Last December, I toured the John J. Sbrega Health & Science Building on BCC’s Fall River campus with its architect, Jim Moses from Sasaki Associates. Over the past two years, he’s been making weekly trips to check in on the building — I’d been
We love summer. We love reading. We love lists. We are wildly attracted to their combination: summer reading lists. And so we thought it would be fun to compile a list from notable South Coast readers. We asked a handful of interesting and smart folks what they thought we should read this summer. Here’s the
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Yes, that’s right. It’s our new-fangled take on the old-fashioned book group. We’re forming an online community of book lovers to discuss literature connected with the South Coast. First up — Hammer Head by Nina MacLaughlin, an engaging memoir from a writer who decides to give up her job at the Boston Phoenix to become a