Food
By Lissa Harris on Sunday, Aug. 29, 2010 - 10:46 pm
Last we heard, Liberty's free-movies-in-the-park series had been shut down because nobody bothered to get a license from the film-rights company. Then some good Samaritans chipped in to buy the movie rights so it could go on.
Now, it seems, some... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Sunday, Aug. 29, 2010 - 6:13 am
Down in Orange County, the last dairy cows in New Windsor went up on the auction block Friday. The Times Herald-Record was there to record another step in the long death march of New York State dairy farming:
The result has been the closing of 207 dairy... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Monday, Aug. 23, 2010 - 1:51 pm
Dear God. Is it that season already? Dressel Farms in New Paltz announces that the first apples of the year are ready now, almost two weeks ahead of schedule thanks to a warm spring. Galas and Honeycrisps are ready for eating -- and Cortlands and Macouns... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Thursday, Aug. 19, 2010 - 10:48 am
Pigs at the Delaware County Fair. Photo by Joe Damone.
By Lissa Harris on Wednesday, Aug. 18, 2010 - 10:43 am
Daily Freeman reporter Paula Ann Mitchell did a little reporting on the annual Hudson Valley RibFest, to be held at the Ulster County Fairgrounds this weekend, and was astounded to learn that Ovarian-Americans would be allowed to participate:
Whoever said... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Monday, Aug. 16, 2010 - 10:05 am
The folks at Cluckin A Critter Farm in Greenville opined on their blog yesterday that things are looking kind of drought-like in their area:
WOW!!! We're getting rain! I can't tell you how very bad we need this rain. There are a lot of folks around the... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, Aug. 11, 2010 - 1:58 pm
The five SUNY Delhi students who make up the school's culinary team were feted on the school's campus yesterday after winning a national championship at the American Culinary Federation's annual convention last week. The video above, featuring SUNY Delhi... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, Aug. 11, 2010 - 1:29 pm
The Corbin Hill Road Farm, a new kind of community-supported-agriculture project that brings poor South Bronx residents affordable produce from Schoharie County farms, starred in another article today. (The New York Times profiled the venture back in June... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Thursday, Aug. 5, 2010 - 4:18 pm
Although Walker Valley in Ulster County was recently the scene of some unpleasantness about small-scale farms, it looks like Acorn Hill Farm is doing well enough to need some extra hands. The farm just posted a job listing for a capable, heavy-load-... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, Aug. 4, 2010 - 4:15 pm
NPR had a great story about Cobleskill's how-to-be-a-butcher "meat lab" yesterday, in which it asked several of the participants why they forked over $3000 to slice flesh for a month. The answers are awesome:
Fred Beckman, who's worked in Manhattan's... Read more
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