Food
By Lissa Harris on Friday, Feb. 5, 2010 - 11:07 am
The NYT reports that the National Animal Identification System, a proposed program for tracking all US livestock with implanted microchips, has been scrapped. This is welcome news for a lot of small farmers:
...the system quickly drew the ire of many... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Wednesday, Feb. 3, 2010 - 3:21 pm
Sad fact: Even in the world of organic, not all milk is created equal. Dairy farmer Dean Sparks breaks it down.
I live in Upstate NY, and I frequently check the dairy code numbers on products. Many organic products touting the “local” claim are actually... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Saturday, Jan. 30, 2010 - 11:48 am
Part time, spring through summer/fall. From Ulster Corps:
Nestled next to the southwest side of the Marlboro Hills, ten minutes from the center of college town New Paltz, New York, Liberty View Farm is a boutique farm and orchard of organically grown... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Thursday, Jan. 28, 2010 - 5:36 pm
Want to be a farmer? Farm Catskills, a Delhi nonprofit that helps farmers find ways to sustain careers in agriculture, wants you to apply to its "Growing New Farmers" program. They've put out a call for "new or aspiring farmers," according to the The... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Wednesday, Jan. 27, 2010 - 9:42 am
Ulla Kjarval of Meredith's Spring Lake Farm thinks farmers should be connecting with eaters online. She's selling a whole steer on Twitter.
By WP Newsroom on Tuesday, Jan. 26, 2010 - 1:44 pm
We apologize for seizing on a London Times story that led us (and millions of gleeful Scots-Americans) to believe the USDA was on the brink of legalizing real sheep haggis, which for years has been contraband in the US.
As it turns out, the heroin of meat... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Tuesday, Jan. 26, 2010 - 12:16 pm
The Ashokan Center and Camp Epsworth are hosting a four-part forest gardening/permaculture workshop with AppleSeed Permaculture, running over four weekends from February to June.
Imagine a future of homegrown fruits- berries, pawpaws and persimmons,... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Sunday, Jan. 24, 2010 - 10:55 pm
Haggis, long outlawed, is soon to be legal again.*
Hope they're busting out the Laphroaig at Livingston Manor's Snowdance Farm, where the Guardian's Ian Williams hied himself last year in search of that supremely unobtainable foodstuff, an authentic... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Saturday, Jan. 23, 2010 - 10:32 pm
Sometimes it pays off to sit at home on your computer on a Saturday night like a big dork. Because awesome things happen. Like dairy farmers posting live pics on Twitter of their cows giving birth. @NYFarmer tweets:
http://twitpic.com/zh719 - Calf is... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Friday, Jan. 22, 2010 - 5:47 pm
Albany's CBS6 has the story.
LIVINGSTON -- State Police are investigating the suicide death of a dairy farmer who killed 51 head of his cattle before he shot himself.
Police responded to a 911 call Thursday afternoon and arrived at the Copake farm to find... Read more
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