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By Julia Reischel on Tuesday, Jun. 21, 2011 - 2:21 pm
Fisher-Price farming set. Photo by J.E. Theriot, via Flickr.
David Knudsen, the Sullivan County real estate broker who blogs at Sullivan County Real Estate CBA Blog, has noticed a new trend in the requests from his clients who are looking to by land... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Monday, Jun. 20, 2011 - 5:46 pm
Photo of swarming bees by Flickr user Francis Chung. Published under Creative Commons license.
Hats off to Daily Mail reporter Hilary Hawke, who had a ripping yarn in last Wednesday's paper about a swarm of more than 10,000 bees that moved into the walls... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Sunday, Jun. 19, 2011 - 10:34 am
Ellen Verni has been writing "Home Cookin'," her column of Catskills recipes and rumination, for 24 years. She is sharing some of her archived columns with the Watershed Post. The column below first ran on Fathers' Day in 2001. (The above illustration,... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Thursday, Jun. 16, 2011 - 12:46 pm
Around 11:15am this morning, firefighters and firetrucks descended on the town of Andes in response to a report of smoke and electrical smells in the basement of 85 Main Street, which houses Apple Tree Realty and Woody's County Kitchen. No fire or smoke... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Wednesday, Jun. 15, 2011 - 6:13 pm
If you're invested in the future of farming and local food in upstate New York, you'll want to seize the chance to catch a local screening of "The Greenhorns," a documentary about young farmers out to reclaim American agriculture from the roots up. The... Read more
By Lillian Browne on Tuesday, Jun. 14, 2011 - 2:36 pm
Tay Home founder Nini Ordoubadi with a portrait of her aunt and inspiration, Noushafarin Saad. Photo provided by Nini Ordoubadi.
On the Saturday before Memorial Day, the Tay Home tea shop celebrated its grand reopening in a new location that has turned... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Monday, Jun. 13, 2011 - 5:27 pm
Tractor Day, 2011. Photo by Jill Ogden. Used with permission.
Last Thursday was "Tractor Day" at Delaware Academy in Delhi, which means that the segment of the student body with the most rural pride drove to work in and on farm machinery, sometimes from... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Sunday, Jun. 12, 2011 - 2:49 pm
A victimless (and potentially seedless) crime happened this morning on Highway 30 in the town of Schoharie, according to a Schoharie County Sheriff's Office press release. A tractor-trailer loaded with watermelons reportedly overturned on the highway. No... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Friday, Jun. 10, 2011 - 3:45 pm
Tomorrow, Neversink Farm is Claryville is hosting a big riverside communal dinner where the idea is to consume the fruits of the land right on the land itself. And these fruits of the land will be expertly prepared by NYC chef Patrick Connolly, who... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Thursday, Jun. 9, 2011 - 10:21 am
Above: Former Shandaken town supervisor Peter DiSclafani trades barbs wtih Councilman Jack Jordan and current supervisor Rob Stanley at Monday's town meeting. Video by Julia Reischel.
A dispute over a misguided $2,500 check cashed by the Town of... Read more
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