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Before or after your visit to the Tent Sale, please join us for an Open Studios event this Labor Day Weekend in Pine Plains. Just two miles west of Hammertown Barn on 199, chasama North is an artist-in-residency program that has been running for the past four years.

By the way, my name is Sung and I’ll be blogging and teaching cooking classes at Hammertown this fall, but more on that elsewhere…

One thing all Hammertown Customers have in common is that they love their homes. We love the diversity of design and creativity we see in these unique and diverse houses and wanted to share it with you. For this inaugural profile we chose Jill & Steven London’s home in Garrison, NY which was recently featured in our Newsletter. Just check out these pictures and you will see why.

This is the only class you can join where you’ll want to eat your homework — instead of blaming the dog!

As much as we at Hammertown would love to see our customers doing all their Christmas shopping in any one or all of our 3 stores, we also know that in these times, we have a responsibility to take actions that will not only benefit us monetarily but also environmentally. As Joan said in our recent newsletter,

“We live in an age of over-consumption, and as a result I am more aware of the importance behind thoughtful buying… I strive to fill our stores with items that are both useful and beautiful, crafting our appreciation and celebration of material gifts, while not participating in mindless materialism.”

In that spirit we’ve come up with 5 easy ideas on how to make your Christmas “Greener” - in fact, they’re so easy, you don’t even need to get out of your chair to do most of them.

And it could change my life! Yep…that’s right a 9-step program…not a 12-step…not even a 2-step. And it all started when Joan told me to read Alice Waters’ new cookbook, The Art of Simple Food.