Aspiring locavore Akira Ohiso at Zinc Plate Press recently ditched Dannon in an effort to eat closer to home. Lucky for him, there's Tonjes Farm yogurt from Callicoon, made within 25 miles of his house.
Whether you're looking to get out of the rat race or your looking for a growth industry with a heart, this is for you. This business provides the finest quality fresh, natural, organic and whole foods. Product lines include nutritional products and body care products. Current owner spends NO time at this business. An owner operator could take home nearly 70k. Little or no competition in the area.
The listing doesn't give the name of the store in question or even name the town in which it's located. But since there's "no competition in the area," it shouldn't be too hard to guess which one it is, right? If the aisles pictured in the listing's photos look familiar, email us and give us your guess.
Gable is one of these super-charming and disarming type guys. A charismatic dude who knows his business quite well. Gable went on to provide a tasting of their current line (at least the ones they could legally taste/sell in their tasting room/store): Hudson New York Corn Whiskey, Hudson Baby Bourbon, Hudson Four Grain Bourbon, Hudson Manhattan Rye, Heart of the Hudson Apple Vodka (twice distilled), Spirit of the Hudson Apple Vodka (thrice distilled).
Their Vodkas, by the way, are Kosher for Passover as they are distilled from apples, not grain — Cheers on that!!
Photo of distiller at Tuthilltown posted under a Creative Commons license by Flickr user WilsonB.
Why don't more farmers grow nuts? That's what Jerry Henkin, a member of the Northen Nut Growers Association, wants to know. We met Henkin last month at the Farm to Market Connection conference last month in Liberty, NY, where he showed us a slew of native nut varieties, like butternut and heartnut, that you just don't see at your local farmer's market. (His argument: you should.) Read more
Many New Yorkers are looking to halt the march of natural-gas drilling in their vast watershed. Manhattan borough president Scott Stringer has the support of dozens of NYC organizations for his "Kill the Drill" campaign. Mayor Michael Bloomberg has been an outspoken opponent of drilling as well. Alarmed by the threat to their water supply, New Yorkers have flooded the DEC with comments, petitioned the Governor and protested in the streets.
Here's a tactic they haven't tried: Mobilizing millions of New York voters in support of dairy price reform.
Douglas Kalajian, one of the two writers behind The Armenian Kitchen, has fond memories of the once-large Armenian community that vacationed in the Catskills:
Maybe you think of the Catskill Mountains as the Borscht Belt, but I remember when the heights around Tannersville, New York, echoed with the sounds of kebab sizzling on the grill and dice skipping across a backgammon board.
He used to spend summers up there with his family at the Washington Irving Hotel, which, he says, was a popular Armenian vacation spot:
I remember eating with all those Armenians in the dining room: Big platters of dolma or kebabs passed around family style as people visited from table to table. It was impossible to get through a meal without at least one serious pinch under the chin from some old person I didn't know but who was just so excited to see me.
I am looking for a symbol to put on our advertising to show that we do not support gas drilling, or more specifically, that our food is grown & raised on land without gas wells. If a symbol exists, it would be great to standardize it and have all like-minded farmers (& value-added producers) use it in their labelling, so we can recognize and support those farmers.
This recent Earth Island Journal story on gas drilling in upstate New York and Pennsylvania suggests it might be a moot point: According to Hancock farmer Mark Dunau, most farmers who are leasing their land to gas companies don't plan to stay in the farm business anyway. Read more
