We are excited to announce this year’s FREE RANGE Adirondack Harvest Festival! By this we mean exploding our traditional festival at the Essex County Fairgrounds and scattering the fun throughout the community and virtually! Tying it all together, so we can all celebrate as a community, we have put together a Scavenger Hunt (with great […]
During Pandemic, North Country Food Co-op Offers Both Comfort and Food
An attentive grocer can tell a lot about the public psyche by glancing into their customers’ shopping carts. If people are buying pinto beans by the case and rice by the 25-pound sack, something is definitely wrong. Which is exactly what employees of the North Country Food Co-op were seeing in the early days of […]
DIY Projects Keep ADK Saws Humming
By Tim Rowland There are two types of home-improvement projects: DIY and LSEDI, or Let Someone Else Do It. For those who make a market in Adirondack forestry products, both of these camps have kept business stable during the novel coronavirus outbreak. In some cases, it’s been enough to keep business steady, but for others […]
Survey Results: Local Food & COVID-19
Survey results time! First of all, THANK YOU to everyone who took the survey and who shared it! One thing is sure: all of us have learned that the world can change overnight. So far, supply chains within the global food system have not been totally disrupted. Hopefully they won’t be. But food resiliency means […]
Farmers Adapt Quickly to the New Normal
By Tim Rowland When Gov. Andrew Cuomo signed the executive order in March that shut down state commerce, Katie and Brandon Donahue, owners of Donahue’s Livestock Farm in North Bangor, had 30 sizable orders of top-shelf, hormone- and antibiotic-free beef and pork in the cooler destined for North Country restaurants. Within minutes of the shutdown […]
Saranac Lake transitions from Farmers’ Market to Farmers’ Park-It
By Tim Rowland By early March, Adirondack food producers were beginning to understand that their markets in the spring of 2020 were going to be very different. There would be no public stalls heaped with fragrant breads or tempting greens and spring vegetables for the public to poke, squeeze and sniff. Nor would there be the […]
