Food
By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, Aug. 11, 2010 - 1:29 pm
The Corbin Hill Road Farm, a new kind of community-supported-agriculture project that brings poor South Bronx residents affordable produce from Schoharie County farms, starred in another article today. (The New York Times profiled the venture back in June... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Thursday, Aug. 5, 2010 - 4:18 pm
Although Walker Valley in Ulster County was recently the scene of some unpleasantness about small-scale farms, it looks like Acorn Hill Farm is doing well enough to need some extra hands. The farm just posted a job listing for a capable, heavy-load-... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, Aug. 4, 2010 - 4:15 pm
NPR had a great story about Cobleskill's how-to-be-a-butcher "meat lab" yesterday, in which it asked several of the participants why they forked over $3000 to slice flesh for a month. The answers are awesome:
Fred Beckman, who's worked in Manhattan's... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Friday, Jul. 30, 2010 - 11:49 am
A blue-ribbon draft horse at the Schoharie County Sunshine Fair.
Wondering what to do this weekend in the Catskills? Here our are picks:
Schoharie County Sunshine Fair
Schoharie County's annual fair doesn't fool around. It starts today with harness racing... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Wednesday, Jul. 28, 2010 - 12:20 pm
A tomato plant showing the early signs of late blight infection.
Bad news, gardeners: Late blight, which cut a swath of destruction across the Northeast last summer, is back in upstate New York again. Cornell Cooperative Extension sent out a press release... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Sunday, Jul. 25, 2010 - 10:46 am
Michael Koegel, who launched the new Phoenicia eatery "Mama's Boy" over Memorial Day, got an ecstatic review in the Daily Freeman this week. But one thing he said sparked a retort in the comments section:
I wish Mr. Koegel great success, but to say there... Read more
By wateradmin on Saturday, Jul. 24, 2010 - 10:03 pm
Left to right: Erica Mahlkuch, Luc Moeys and Nina Paturel.
Luc and Nina are at it again. Woodstock residents Luc Moeys and Nina Paturel, that is. With their newest venture, Yum Yum Noodle Bar, the duo behind Cafe With Love and Oriole9 are now joining... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Friday, Jul. 23, 2010 - 3:57 pm
On Tuesday, Linda Borghi's feud with her Shawangunk neighbors over her Walker Valley biodynamic farm intensified when Ulster County legislators declined to grant her an agricultural exemption to the local zoning laws.
Pointing out that two other farms... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Thursday, Jul. 22, 2010 - 5:55 pm
Horseshoe Festival
There are some things that just go together. Abbott and Costello. Rhythm and blues. Beans and cornbread. Hobart and horseshoes. Back in the late 1700s, local lore tells, Hobart pioneer Foote More was the first in the nation to... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Thursday, Jul. 22, 2010 - 2:08 pm
Delaware County: Tune into ABC at 8pm tomorrow to see if Stone and Thistle Farm's Denise Warren can handle life in the shoes of a TV-obsessed, diva-licious suburbanite from Oklahoma. The Daily Star reports:
Denise Warren said when she got to her temporary... Read more
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