Food
By Julia Reischel on Thursday, Mar. 15, 2012 - 5:18 pm
Above: Making syrup. Photo by QUOI Media Group, via Flickr.
Two weeks of maple syrup mania begin this weekend, and maple producers across New York State will be celebrating with open houses, pancake breakfasts, and lots of the sweet stuff.
It would take... Read more
Dairy dossier: Tax breaks for working girls, the low price of NY milk, and Chobani's dangerous plant
By Lissa Harris on Thursday, Mar. 15, 2012 - 3:53 pm
Born to depreciate. Photo by Flickr user Benjamin Golub; published under Creative Commons license.
Q: How is a milk cow like a fax machine?
A: She can be written off as a business expense. And under a new federal law proposed by U.S. Senator Chuck Schumer... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Tuesday, Mar. 13, 2012 - 9:39 am
Above: Farmers are mobbed by enthusiastic customers during Stamford's inaugural winter pop-up farmers' market in February. Photo via the Greater Stamford Area Chamber of Commerce Facebook page.
Farmers' markets almost never show up during "mud month," as... Read more
By Andrea Girolamo on Thursday, Mar. 8, 2012 - 8:37 pm
Al's Seafood, a Phoenicia institution in business since 1940, will close its doors permanently after dinner service on March 19. The Daily Freeman reports:
“At close of business on March 19th, I turn off the lights at Al’s for the last time,” [Paul... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, Mar. 7, 2012 - 11:54 am
Above: A freshly-poured beer from Brewery Ommegang. Photo by Flickr user Bandita.
Governor Andrew Cuomo wants New York State to create a "farm breweries" license that would allow local farms with on-site breweries and wineries to conduct tastings, run... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Monday, Mar. 5, 2012 - 9:52 am
The Times Herald-Record reports that a new supermarket is coming to site of the former Liberty Great American, shuttered since last summer:
NSA Supermarkets, a Brooklyn-based company, is in the process of buying Great American's North Main Street... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Thursday, Mar. 1, 2012 - 6:44 pm
Above: Jake and Karen Fairbairn in Lazy Crazy Acres's mobile kitchen-on-wheels. Photo courtesy of Lazy Crazy Acres.
The Lazy Crazy Acres recipe for ice cream is deceptively simple: Start with a cow.
Meet small-batch gelato makers, dairy farmers, and... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Wednesday, Feb. 29, 2012 - 3:45 pm
An Ulster County undercover narcotics investigation has resulted in a raid on Brennie's Pizzeria in Highland, and the arrest of 25-year-old Milton resident Brandon Storms on various drug trafficking charges.
The Ulster Regional Gang Enforcement Narcotics... Read more
By Rusty Mae Moore on Friday, Feb. 24, 2012 - 11:24 pm
Above: Attendees at a hearing yesterday in which the Shandaken Town Board passed a new law governing farmstands. Photo by Rusty Mae Moore.
It took eight years, but the Shandaken Town Board has finally passed a farmstand law.
The new law expands the... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Friday, Feb. 24, 2012 - 1:13 pm
John, a fellow who goes by username Catskills Photography on the Flickr photo-sharing website, shared this photo with us via the Watershed Post Flickr Pool. The image is of a part of the Narrowsburg Feed and Grain Company building in Narrowsburg, NY. John... Read more
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