Food
By Lissa Harris on Sunday, Mar. 28, 2010 - 1:24 pm
There's a tremendous appetite out there for local foods, and it's growing. Farmers are willing to feed the market. A growing network of distributors and retailers is having great success selling food from small farms. But there's a huge gap in the local... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Saturday, Mar. 27, 2010 - 10:53 pm
Nate Wilson had an op-ed in the Buffalo News yesterday, in which he accused federal regulators of "whistling past the graveyard" while the U.S. dairy industry collapses.
Middletown, N. Y., cattle dealer Joe Distelburger, relates: “I spoke to a Western N.... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Saturday, Mar. 27, 2010 - 8:57 am
Last Sunday, Lissa Harris and Julia Reischel of the Watershed Post attended Farm to Market Connection, a networking conference for farmers and food buyers in Liberty, NY. It was a rare view of the local food economy: a community of farmers, foodmakers,... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Friday, Mar. 26, 2010 - 5:43 pm
Should the state allow grocery stores to sell wine? Tonight at 7:30pm on PBS stations across the state, New York Now is asking grape growers what they think. Here's a preview:
By WP Newsroom on Friday, Mar. 26, 2010 - 4:28 pm
Yesterday, we published a story and short video about this year's maple syrup yields, which some astute observers estimate are down 80% in the Catskills region.
We got an email from forester Peter Smallidge, who directs the maple program at Cornell... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Thursday, Mar. 25, 2010 - 9:46 pm
The Watershed Post interviews George and Duane LaFever, Catskill maple syrup producers.
It's the peak of New York's annual maple festival, and local tappers are saying the maple syrup yield in the Catskills is worse than it's ever been.
An evaporatorSugar... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Thursday, Mar. 25, 2010 - 10:03 am
March means lots of new lambs at Catskill Merino, a small sheep-raising and yarnmaking farm in Goshen--and lots of work for the farmer.
Leaving, I swept the flashlight around the blackness of the yard seeing its beam reflected by many pairs of sheep... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Monday, Mar. 22, 2010 - 2:28 pm
It's maple syrup season in the Catskills, and everybody's getting into the spirit. Last Saturday was the first day of Maple Weekend, when local producers of maple syrup and maple sugar throw open their sugar house doors to tourists. (The festival pours... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Sunday, Mar. 21, 2010 - 2:13 pm
We're at the Pure Catskills Farm to Market conference in Liberty today, hobnobbing with farmers, buyers, distributors and foodies of all stripes. We'll be posting later--in the meantime, feel free to follow us on Twitter: @watershedpost.
By WP Newsroom on Friday, Mar. 19, 2010 - 5:06 pm
Come for the fresh guacamole, stay for the pineapple-infused tequila. Hudson Valley Magazine's Lynn Hazlewood checks out Gaby's Cafe, a new-ish Mexican place in Ellenville, and declares it delectable:
It’s a casual little place, painted in bright, fruity... Read more
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