In partnership Berkshire Grown, Scout House invites the public to attend a book signing and reading with local author Ellyn Gaydos, reading from her New York Times acclaimed best seller Pig Years, on Friday November 4, 6-8 pm. A former team member at Abode Farm in New Lebanon, NY as well as many other farms in the area, Gaydos reflects on the wisdom she gained while working the soils and tending to animals in the Berkshires.

In her New York Times review of Pig Years, Kristen Kimball wrote that "memoirs about farming tend to slide in one of two directions: the farce or the ode. Neither of those genres is as satisfying as what we have in Ellyn Gaydos’s debut memoir, “Pig Years,” about her life as a farmhand in New York and Vermont. What this young writer has given us is more of a memento mori, rendering realistic scenes full of vivid and sometimes bizarre detail, always with an acknowledgment — on the surface or just under it — of the inescapable facts that life entails death, and growth, and arises from decay."

Ellyn will read from Pig Years, and answer questions in a Q&A moderated by Berkshire Grown Executive Director, Margaret Moulton.