Food
By Lissa Harris on Monday, Jul. 12, 2010 - 9:14 pm
The Monticello Wal-Mart has begun seriously beefing up its kosher section. But Sullivan County's independent kosher shops aren't being caught napping by the 800-pound retail gorilla: They're confident they can serve their niche market better. The Times... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Saturday, Jul. 10, 2010 - 12:45 pm
A tour group gets a close-up look at a manure storage barn, on a Watershed Agricultural Council bus tour of farms in the New York City watershed.
On June 3, a few dozen curious people boarded a chartered bus in Delhi, donned plastic booties, and set out... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Thursday, Jul. 8, 2010 - 9:59 am
When people get angry about things as benign as farm stands, they get really angry. Phoenicia's Hanover Farms, a large and successful farm stand on Rte. 28 in Mt. Tremper, has been a flashpoint of angst for years.
In a nutshell, owner Al Higley's... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, Jul. 7, 2010 - 3:49 pm
The debate over gas drilling in the Marcellus is beginning to attract some Madison-Avenue-style advertising stunts, such as this video by Riverkeeper's Don't Frack With NYC campaign:
It stars Louis Thompson, the owner of Terrace Bagels in Prospect Park... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Thursday, Jul. 1, 2010 - 3:11 pm
Online at Orion Magazine: A marvelous video on Ray Turner, proprietor of the Delaware Delicacies Smoke House, and the only stone-weir eel fisherman left on the East Coast.
eel•water•rock•man from Orion Magazine on Vimeo.
Turner, a white-bearded sage who... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Thursday, Jul. 1, 2010 - 1:57 pm
Spring Lake Farm's Ulla Kjarval reflects on American meat-eating, her father's latest cohort of piglets, and the middle ground farms like her family's occupy between animal rights activism and so-called Big Ag.
The cuteness of the piglets are giving me... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Monday, Jun. 28, 2010 - 11:08 am
Daily News correspondent Paul Schultz spends a day fishing the East and West branches of the Delaware and talking up the virtues of summer fishing in the Catskills:
The good news, though, is that three streams in Sullivan and Delaware Counties — the... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Monday, Jun. 28, 2010 - 10:38 am
Buried in an early kale crop? The Catskill Kiwi has some ideas for what to do with it, starting with an aromatic pan of olive oil, onions, garlic and red pepper flakes.
Photo of tender young red Russian kale by Flickr user bec.w. Posted under a Creative... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Friday, Jun. 25, 2010 - 2:09 pm
In the town of Shawangunk, you can't have a farm on less than ten acres, according to the town's zoning law. That means that Linda Borghi, who wants to do intensive biodynamic farming on her 2.7 acre plot on Saxton Rd., is out of luck, according to the... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Friday, Jun. 25, 2010 - 1:29 pm
The problem of too few slaughterhouses is being addressed, at a glacial pace, in Liberty. According to the Times Herald-Record, a much-delayed slaughterhouse is finally nearing a ground-breaking. That is, as long as the feds pony up almost a million... Read more
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