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By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, Mar. 11, 2015 - 1:46 pm
Above: New Environmental Police Officers being sworn in to their jobs patrolling New York City’s upstate watershed, which spans a 2,000-square-mile area, much of it in the Catskills. Photo via the New York City Department of Environmental Protection’s... Read more
By Rusty Plough Farm on Tuesday, Mar. 10, 2015 - 6:46 pm
Summer.... Autumn.... Winter.... Mud..... Spring.... Voila the five seasons of life in the Hudson Valley region. Mudrooms are a nice thing to have, but somehow the mud seems to find its way past that door into the rest of the house. From woodstove wood... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Monday, Mar. 9, 2015 - 4:02 pm
Above: A bag of heroin. Photo from a series of photographs shot by WBEZ Chicago Public Radio documenting heroin use.
Heroin addiction is sweeping through the Catskills, taking lives with it. (Here at the Watershed Post, we write more crime stories about... Read more
By Rusty Plough Farm on Wednesday, Mar. 4, 2015 - 2:02 pm
Oh, the taste of those fresh, red, sun-ripened tomatoes! Walking barefoot on the grass, leaving the gloves and hats in the house... it will all be here before you know it. Put yourself in the mood for spring by visiting Rondout Valley Organics at the... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Monday, Mar. 2, 2015 - 5:05 pm
Above: New York State Broadband Program director David Salway, left, talks with Greg Henderson, middle, the owner of the Roxbury Motel, and Angela Liotta, right, the state's Broadband Outreach Director, on Wednesday, Feb. 25. Photo by Julia Reischel.
In... Read more
By Pure Catskills on Monday, Mar. 2, 2015 - 3:33 pm
Join by March 27 to be featured in the 2015- 2016 Pure Catskills Guide. Simply send a $35 payment by mail today: Make checks payable to “WAC” and mail to Watershed Agricultural Council, Attn: Pure Catskills, 44 West Street, Walton, NY 13856 OR pay online... Read more
By Rusty Plough Farm on Friday, Feb. 27, 2015 - 1:08 pm
Dreaming of morning coffee on the deck, flowers in the yard and spring home projects? If so, then join us at the Pine Bush Home Show next Sunday, March 8th and get those ideas moving into reality! But why, you may ask, is a farm setting up at a Home Show... Read more
By Margaretville Health Foundation on Wednesday, Feb. 25, 2015 - 3:43 pm
By Rusty Plough Farm on Friday, Feb. 20, 2015 - 3:23 pm
We are often asked, "So what do you do in the wintertime?", to which we of course, reply, "What else but eat bonbons all day long?!". All jesting aside, winters on our farm are certainly more physically restful and indoors than the rest of the year. But... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Tuesday, Feb. 10, 2015 - 4:13 pm
The 2015 Catskills Food Guide is out. Click here for more info. - Ed.
Each year, we ask readers of the Watershed Post and our Catskills Food Guide to send us their best photos of Catskills food and farms. This year, 32 photographers entered our 2015... Read more
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