We created 2 hourlong shows that broadcast on WBCR-LP in September and October 2026. Lila’s Mountain Farm and Cure for Boredom Farm are the topics of these 2 shows. The last 15 minutes of the latter is an excerpt from our 2025 interview with Pascal Baudar, author of Wildcrafting Seeds and Grains. Here are the links:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1cAHQDEnul9dw9xjCCbsV1be6WTumE1kr/view?usp=sharing is Mary Berle of Lila’s Mountain Farm.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ip79-3raqig5enath9gfcwRGC6RHq3WD/view?usp=sharing is Hunt and Joy of Cure for Boredom Farm.

Mary Berle is the farmer/owner at Lila’s Mountain Farm near the border of Great Barringtonm Egremont and Alford Massachusetts.  She grew up in the Berkshires and graduated from Monument Mountain Regional High School. Berle moved to the eastern part of the state for college and graduate school and the first decade of her career in education and for starting a family. She moved her family back to the Berkshires in 2003 and taught in the Berkshires Hills Regional School District and was principal at Muddy Brook Elementary School. Mary Berle has three grown children and her partner, Len, is the Highway Superintendent for Lee, MA.  In 2020 she became steward of her mother Lila Berle’s flock and farm.

Here is what Hunt of Cure for Boredom says about their farm:

“I’ve been growing vegetables for about 15 years, and Joy and I are now in our fourth year of running Cure for Boredom Farm. Until this year, we were essentially landless farmers, borrowing plots from friends to grow on. This is our first season growing on our own land in Cummington and having a permanent home for the farm.

We grow a wide variety of vegetables using organic practices, although we are not certified organic. We also make several varieties of bean-based, soy-free tofu and fermented products. For our value-added products, we use what we grow whenever we can, then source from other local farms and friends, and purchase from farther afield when we need to.

An important part of Cure for Boredom is getting good local food to people who might not otherwise have access to it, and we donate a portion of what we grow to local food pantries and community food programs.”