Food
By Julia Reischel on Thursday, Oct. 14, 2010 - 2:15 pm
Hernani Dias and Madalyn Warren put the finishing touches on a worm composter at the Andes Sprouts Society in August.
In the mountains, you never know who is hiding out in the next hollow over. It could be a fourth-generation dairy farmer, a Sufi worship... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Tuesday, Oct. 12, 2010 - 10:31 am
A giant pumpkin welcomes visitors to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in NYC last year. Photo by Neil Rosenau, via Flickr.
This year is proving to be a bonanza one for pumpkins. Newspapers and TV stations all over New York are reporting that the dry summer... Read more
By Ellen Verni on Monday, Oct. 11, 2010 - 6:49 am
Ellen Verni has been writing "Home Cookin'," her column of Catskills recipes and rumination, for 24 years. She is sharing some of her archived columns with the Watershed Post. The column below first ran in October 2002. You can get more of Verni on her... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Friday, Oct. 8, 2010 - 4:03 pm
It's going to freeze good and hard on Sunday morning in Delaware, Otsego, and Sullivan counties, the National Weather Center in Binghamton is predicting. So if you've got any tomatoes left, bring 'em in now:
...WIDESPREAD FREEZE EXPECTED EARLY SUNDAY... .... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Friday, Oct. 8, 2010 - 12:45 pm
Photo of a woolly bear caterpillar by Roban Kramer, via Flickr.
When you see these little brown-and-black fuzzy caterpillars everywhere, that means it's right around Columbus Day in the Catskills. Aside from Memorial Day and Labor Day, this is one of the... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Monday, Oct. 4, 2010 - 10:58 am
As if flash floods and the emerald ash borer weren't enough to deal with, the Sullivan County Democrat reports that Sullivan County is the next frontier of a national plague of feral swine. The Democrat interviewed the grandson of farmers in Long Eddy,... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Friday, Oct. 1, 2010 - 9:10 pm
Beth Adams of Hobart caught an entire field of pumpkins making a break for it in Davenport this morning. (Just in time. The Halloween hordes are about to descend, carving knives in hand.)
Go free, pumpkins!
As of 4pm, Davenport was still under a state of... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Tuesday, Sep. 28, 2010 - 11:26 am
Armenian food lover Douglas Kalajian, who blogs at TheArmenianKitchen.com, recently visited Windham, where, he reports, there is now a fantastic Armenian (and Greek!) specialty foods store:
The Armenian flag fluttering over Route 23 is one of several... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Sunday, Sep. 26, 2010 - 8:55 am
The Cauliflower Festival in Margaretville was beautiful. A few photos from the festival, including a cauliflower on Mabel on the Move's shiny airstream food truck, above. Below, two images of the Schoharie Valley Cloggers, and one of a handmade wooden... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Saturday, Sep. 25, 2010 - 3:01 pm
The circus that was comedian Stephen Colbert's testimony on migrant workers before Congress this week had an Ulster County connection: Colbert's expertise in migrant issues was earned during a one-day stint of work at Gill Corn Farms in the town of... Read more
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