Gregory Landua and Amy Webb are delighted to have become the new owners of Berkshire Sweet Gold in the fall of 2021. Our focus has been on maintaining and upgrading the maple lines and sugar house equipment, while upholding the approach and systems founders Brooks and Janis and their children developed and refined in their 20+ years of initiating and growing Berkshire Sweet Gold. We continue the artisanal batch process and glass bottling, and are filling online orders to new and loyal customers year round.
Founders Brooks and Janis continue with their project as they explore new frontiers in environmental work and invite you to see what they are up to since selling Berkshire Sweet Gold: Island Reach Foundation. |
Our aim is to build strong connections between this New England forest, ourselves, and our customers. In the big picture, we want to help protect wild places everywhere and the traditional or local knowledge that is integral to long term environmental stewardship. To us, there are few more revealing ways to understand the arc of civilizations and the interlinked relationships between people and the environment than through foods and their pathways.
As farmer/poet Wendell Berry wrote in his essay,
"The Pleasures of Eating", eating takes place inescapably in the world...[it is] inescapably an agricultural act, and how we eat determines, to a considerable extent, how the world is used. |