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Farmers Markets: An Alternative to a Food System in Flux

August 17, 2020 by Richard Gast Leave a Comment

Sign seen during curbside pick-up at the Saranac Lake Farmers’ Park It - Adirondack HarvestIn March, when Governor Cuomo signed the New York State on PAUSE executive order, which mandated that all non-essential businesses in New York State had to close, farmer’s markets were exempted as essential retail businesses and, as such, allowed to open or remain open.

But, as concerns about the spread of COVID-19 grew, farmers market growers, gardeners, and managers, like other small business operators, found themselves rushing to come up with innovative contingency plans to modify their operations and employ solutions that would protect their livelihoods, as well as the health and well-being of their customers, market workers, and the community at large. [Read more…] about Farmers Markets: An Alternative to a Food System in Flux

Filed Under: Adirondacks & NNY, Food Tagged With: Adirondack Harvest, agriculture, Cornell Cooperative Ext, Farmers Markets, local farms, local food

Rethinking Meat From Farm to Table

May 30, 2020 by Richard Gast Leave a Comment

pigs by Kate MountainAmerica’s meatpacking plants endure some of the highest rates of workplace injury of any U.S. job sector. COVID-19 has introduced yet another occupational hazard.

These crowded facilities have become frighteningly successful vectors for COVID-19 contagion. [Read more…] about Rethinking Meat From Farm to Table

Filed Under: Adirondacks & NNY, Capital-Saratoga, Food, Hudson Valley - Catskills, Mohawk Valley, New York City, Western NY Tagged With: Food, local farms, local food, Public Health

Small-Scale Livestock Production Webinars Planned

May 22, 2020 by Editorial Staff Leave a Comment

free range chickens being fed outdoors courtesy Wikimedia user AsterionCornell Cooperative Extension of Warren County has announced two webinar programs focused on small-scale livestock production. [Read more…] about Small-Scale Livestock Production Webinars Planned

Filed Under: Adirondacks & NNY, Capital-Saratoga, Food, Hudson Valley - Catskills, Mohawk Valley, Western NY Tagged With: Cornell Cooperative Ext, Food, local farms, local food

Reality Check: Local Food Systems

May 2, 2020 by Jessica Prosper Leave a Comment

guide to local foodAlthough we have an abundance of food available in the United States, the past few weeks and the coming months have and will demonstrate that our food system is only as strong as the weakest link.

Food can be produced by farmers in vast amounts, but if it can’t be processed and distributed then it is not accessible to consumers. [Read more…] about Reality Check: Local Food Systems

Filed Under: Adirondacks & NNY, Capital-Saratoga, Food, Hudson Valley - Catskills, Mohawk Valley, New York City, Western NY Tagged With: Cornell Cooperative Ext, Food, local farms, local food

Adirondack Farm Micro-Grants Awarded

April 23, 2020 by Editorial Staff Leave a Comment

Adirondack CouncilThe Adirondack Council awarded 10 micro-grants totaling over $32,000 to local farmers in an effort to address what it called the greatest short-term and long-term threats to public health in the Adirondack Park: COVID-19 and climate change. [Read more…] about Adirondack Farm Micro-Grants Awarded

Filed Under: Adirondacks & NNY, Food Tagged With: Adirondack Council, Climate Change, Grants, local farms, local food, Public Health

Farms & Farm Families in Early America

April 24, 2019 by Liz Covart Leave a Comment

ben_franklins_worldIf we want to understand everyday life in early America we need to understand the everyday life of early American farms and farmers.

Roughly three-quarters of Americans in British North America and the early United States considered themselves to be farmers. So how did early Americans establish farms and what were the rhythms of their daily lives?

In this episode of Ben Franklin’s World, Richard Bushman, the Gouverneur Morris Professor Emeritus of History at Columbia University, joins us to investigate farms and farm life in early America with details from his book, The American Farmer in the Eighteenth Century: A Social and Cultural History. [Read more…] about Farms & Farm Families in Early America

Filed Under: Books, History Tagged With: Agricultural History, local farms, Podcasts

Heritage Gardening Program at Sullivan Co Museum

March 3, 2019 by Editorial Staff Leave a Comment

local gardening in the 1930sHeritage vs. Heirloom Gardening, a talk by horticulturist Diana K. Weiner has been set for Sunday, March 10th at 2 pm, at the Time and the Valleys Museum on St. Rt. 55 in Grahamsville, Sullivan County. [Read more…] about Heritage Gardening Program at Sullivan Co Museum

Filed Under: Events, History, Hudson Valley - Catskills Tagged With: Agricultural History, Gardens - Landscape Architecture, local farms, Time and the Valleys Museum

Jefferson County’s Charles Sherman: Huckleberry Charlie

January 15, 2019 by Lawrence P. Gooley 1 Comment

The Altona Flat Rock is a rare and spectacular site I’ve referenced here in the past, and was the subject of my first book written long ago (it was updated in 2005 with new glaciology information). Besides details on the unusual topography, glacial remnants, an incredibly persistent fire, and one of the world’s largest dams when it was built in the early 1900s, there was also a human history to tell. [Read more…] about Jefferson County’s Charles Sherman: Huckleberry Charlie

Filed Under: Adirondacks & NNY, History Tagged With: Adirondacks, Jefferson County, local farms

Jefferson County’s Huckleberry Charlie

December 18, 2018 by Editorial Staff 1 Comment

The Altona Flat Rock is a rare and spectacular site I’ve referenced here in the past, and was the subject of my first book written long ago (it was updated in 2005 with new glaciology information). Besides details on the unusual topography, glacial remnants, an incredibly persistent fire, and one of the world’s largest dams when it was built in the early 1900s, there was also a human history to tell. [Read more…] about Jefferson County’s Huckleberry Charlie

Filed Under: Adirondacks & NNY, History Tagged With: Adirondacks, Jefferson County, local farms

Mabee Farm to Fork Celebrates Agricultural Traditions

August 19, 2016 by Editorial Staff Leave a Comment

The Schenectady County Historical Society and the Electric City Food Co-op are teaming up to host an evening of local food tastings and live jazz (featuring Roben Kosek Jazz & Blues) inside Mabee Farm’s historic Dutch Barn.

Mabee Farm to Fork will be held on Saturday, September 24, from 5 – 8 pm. Tickets are $25 per person and will include local food tastings prepared by chef Christopher Marney.  A cash bar will be available for alcoholic drinks. [Read more…] about Mabee Farm to Fork Celebrates Agricultural Traditions

Filed Under: Events, History Tagged With: Agricultural History, local farms, Mabee Farm Historic Site, Rotterdam, Schenectady County Historical Society

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