By Tim Rowland | Contributing Writer
This event at Boquet Valley Lake View Campus had all the hallmarks of a farmers’ market — tents and tables, breads, produce, and syrup.…
The cows of Vermont, the grapes of Sonoma and the shoofly pie of the Pennsylvania Dutch have all been parlayed into popular agritourism destinations that add value and viability…
In a striking overlay of past and future, a flock of sheep can be found northwest of Plattsburgh grazing a lush pasture of alfalfa and orchard grass beneath dark, glossy solar…
By Tim Rowland | Contributing Writer
Don’t let those bright spring flowers waving in the breeze fool you. Behind the lovely, carefree blooms is a serious ecological and…
To a student armed with a lunch tray and an appetite, a cafeteria line looks deceptively simple. The food magically appears, with no hint of the legalities, formulas and…
By Tim Rowland | Contributing Writer
Our species has gotten good at strolling through supermarket aisles, ordering off menus and even growing neat rows of peas in…
By Tim Rowland | Contributing Writer
On a chilly Monday morning, educators, administration, and school lunch staff at Boquet Valley Central School’s Lake View Campus came…
By Tim Rowland | Contributing Writer
Two hundred years ago, Merino sheep wandered the North Country like they owned it, and hundreds of small family cabin…
By Tim Rowland | Contributing Writer
Freed of the walled confines of AuSable Forks Elementary School, 19 second graders sprinted up a snowy hill to explore the sugarbush where…
By Tim Rowland | Contributing Writer
Courtney Grimes-Sutton’s grandfather was quite proud that he had clawed his way out of farming to become a dignified, suit-and-tie…
Since 2023, WPBS has been working in collaboration with Adirondack Harvest member, Dani Baker, to produce a weeknight show based on her book, The Home-Scale Forest Garden. The…
By Bruce Kilgore | Contributing Writer
Logo of the Northern Adirondack Beekeepers Association. Celebrating the Apibus Milliferis Dedicati spirit.
This month we consider our…
In this region of northern New York, access to local food is often limited by remoteness, transportation costs, a short growing season and other challenges. A new food hub will…
By Tim Rowland | Contributing Writer
The second graders in Elizabeth Donahue’s classroom know what it’s like to grow their own food. Granted, they didn’t have to deal with…
By Tim Rowland | Contributing Writer
Three weeks before Thanksgiving, a traditional time of bounty, food was a big topic of discussion in Essex County for all the wrong…
By Isabella Susino | Adirondack Harvest Program Lead
Photo provided by NYS Agricultural Society
Adirondack Harvest member Parker Family Maple Farm is the New York State…
By Bruce Kilgore | Contributing Writer
As a beekeeper, February always makes me feel like I’m sitting on go. Normally, we get a few days where our bees get out to fly.…
By Tim Rowland | Contributing Writer
Reading, writing and rutabagas aren’t part of the classic curriculum that most educators signed up for, but teachers who have added food…
Sometimes all it takes to start a revolution is a cherry tomato.
By Tim Rowland | Contributing Writer
As agricultural educators with Cornell Cooperative Extension of…
POP Club gives kids a chance to engage with local producers and growers within Essex County.
By Ellie Hoffman | Local Food Educator
Kids gather around the POP Club…
By Isabella Susino | Adirondack Harvest Program Lead
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As autumn colors are painted across the Adirondack Park, we say goodbye to another amazing…
By Isabella Susino | Adirondack Harvest Program Lead
The 2025 Adirondack Harvest Festival was a great success, bringing together farms, food producers, and community members…
by Tim Rowland |
Dan and Kimmy Rivera started out to solve a problem. If all goes according to plan, they may wind up solving several. In middle age and feeling the effects of a…
by Tim Rowland |
Farm supply stores are normally noisy places in the early spring, filled with the chirps and cheeps of layer chicks bound for backyard coops. But…
by Tim Rowland |
On their way to the dollar store to buy cheap, easily consumed and ultra processed foods such as instant noodles, hot dogs, sweet rolls, and mac and cheese,…
By Mary Godnick, Adirondack Harvest Program Leader |
Agritourism can be considered a dirty word to farmers who really just want to care for their animals, grow their crops,…
Christmas shopping doesn’t have to be a dutiful trudge to the mall or a soulless lonely crawl through endless shopping websites promising that if you just spend another $10…
By Tim Rowland | Contributing Writer
A genre of 20th century agrarian artists loved nothing better than a pastoral scene with a stream tranquilly meandering through a neatly…
By Mary Godnick, Adirondack Harvest Program Leader |
Cornell Cooperative Extension of Essex County would like to extend a huge thank you to everyone who made our 2024 Adirondack…
There is no sugarcoating it: a locally raised turkey will cost more money than the big birds at the grocery store. So why spend more on something you can get so cheaply?
The…
Food labels and certifications such as “natural,” “organic,” “cage-free” and “pasture-raised” are time-consuming for the producer and confusing for the consumer — so are they…
By Tim Rowland
There is the taste of savory chicken salad, the sound of chattering customers, the smell of freshly roasted coffee, the feel of smooth, artisanal soaps, and all…
An overriding theme of the 2020-21 Covid-19 pandemic is that it might not by itself have created permanent change, but it speeded up trends that were already in motion.
In the…
Through the FMNP Program, each eligible senior can receive five $5.00 coupons to total $25.00 that are valid through November 30, 2024.
To be eligible, the senior’s income…
By Tim Rowland |
Syncing farmland with wildlife habitat makes so much sense that Kia-Beth Bennet sometimes wonders how conventional farms can succeed without doing so.
At…
On a bright summer day when the sun catches it just right, few scenes are as idyllic as a bountiful farmers market, with mounds of scarlet radishes, cascades of saffron summer…
By Tim Rowland
Armed with pruners and a clipboard, Courtney Grimes-Sutton surveys row upon row of young apple trees, none of which are named Red Delicious or McIntosh. The…
By Mary Godnick, Adirondack Harvest Program Leader |
Eggs are an integral part of traditions, celebratory dishes, and the everyday diet around the globe. Historians estimate…
By Mary Godnick, Adirondack Harvest Program Leader |
Nothing says SPRING quite like the gardener’s urge to plan out the garden for the year ahead. Are you champing at the bit…
By Mary Godnick, Adirondack Harvest Program Leader |
What is a CSA?
Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) is a model where a member pays for a “share” of a farmer’s offerings in…
By Mary Godnick, Adirondack Harvest Program Coordinator, CCE Essex |
For centuries, humans across the globe have used plants for food, medicine, and ceremony. Herbs have been…
By Tim Rowland
This Christmas I’m giving the gift of garlic. No, really — plump and pungent bulbs of Adirondack-grown garlic, snow white with faint veins of purple, along with a…
By Mary Godnick, Communication Coordinator for CCE Essex Adirondack Harvest Program. This article originally appeared in the September issues of Northern HGL Magazine.
Pumpkins…
By Emma Crowningshield, Americorps VISTA Volunteer.
2023 Marked the fourth consecutive year of hosting the Power of Produce (POP) club in person, and once again, it was a…
When it comes to versatile, yet delicious plant-based ferments, Small Town Cultures is the way to go. Founded by Lake Placid native Cori Deans, Small Town Cultures was built on…
When signing the mortgage paperwork a decade ago for land in the Town of Jay that would become Blue Pepper Farm, Tyler Eaton had a thought. He and his wife Shannon could vacate…
The Warrensburgh Riverfront Farmers’ Market is celebrating its 25th season this year with full line up of special events, live music and activities for their community. In 1998…
Most local activists will tell you they’re not out to save the world. Julie Holbrook and K’Cee Leavine will admit to no such thing.
They see child nutrition in schools as a…
By Tim Rowland
Supporters of Farm to School had battled the conventional wisdom that food in its natural state was too costly and too hard to prepare. They’d won that fight,…
By Tim Rowland
If children can be particular when it comes to food, school administrators, out of necessity, can be just as fastidious when it comes to their annual…
By Tim Rowland
Those who study global hunger note that the world produces plenty of food, the problem rests with getting that food to people in need. Something similar has…
If you’re celebrating a parent in your life this month, consider doing so with a gift that supports local agriculture.
While everyone loves a bouquet of fresh flowers, their…
By Tim Rowland
In the United States, school lunch programs began in 1933 as a piece of Franklin D. Roosevelt’s New Deal agenda for combatting the Great Depression. Feeding…
By Tim Rowland
The first instinct of some vacationers popping into Pine Cone Mercantile and North Woods Bread Co is to apologize. Surely this must be the exquisitely decorated…
Enjoy farmers’ markets and organizing educational activities for youth? Enthusiastic to support local farmers and food systems? We have TWO Americorps Summer VISTA positions open…
By Allyssa Hardiman of St. Lawrence Nurseries
Do you want to spend more time outside? Grow your own food? Eat healthier? Make memories with your kids? Reduce your carbon…
By Olivia Swanson, Power of Produce Club Lead and Americorps VISTA Volunteer
2022 was the third year CCE has operated the Power of Produce (POP) Club in person; and we’d call…
The cost of everything has increased in the past year. But the rise in egg prices has been particularly notable.
The average cost of a dozen commercially produced…
There are two new upcoming programs for farmers to learn more about implementing agritourism activities on their farms. See the two workshop series below:
Building an…
There are many reasons to love locally grown beets, they are affordable, easy to prepare, and available almost year-round. Beets are full of nutrients and vitamins not commonly…
The Cornell Cooperative Extension of Essex County Adirondack Harvest team would like to extend a huge thank you to everyone who made the 2022 Adirondack Harvest Festival a…
A huge THANK YOU for all that came out to the 2022 Adirondack Cuisine Trail Open Farm Weekend this weekend! Over 1,000 people participated in events throughout the weekend.
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CCE Essex Volunteer Olivia Swanson leads an activity with a group of kids at the Saranac Lake Farmers’ Market
The Power of Produce (POP) Club is a free kids’ program that…
Ned and Wade Whitney are a father-son duo making maple in Adirondacks. It’s a family affair, and during the busy maple season the whole family is involved, including Ned’s wife…
By Ricky the Meadmaker, Co-Founder of Groennfell Meadery
Honey is amazing stuff. If you’re reading this blog, I obviously don’t need to tell you, but I’m going to…
An exciting part about early spring is the emergence of wild edible plants you may know as “weeds.” Collecting wild edible plants in the spring can be a really lovely way to…
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Meier’s Artisan Cheese is a dairy farm and artisan cheese plant in Fort Covington NY that makes cheese with milk from their own Holstein and…
Courtney Grimes-Sutton, Owner, Operator, Farmer and Butcher of Mace Chasm Farm in Keeseville, NY. Courtney offered a presentation at the 2022 New York Organic Farming Association…
You buy as much local food as possible. You’re a regular at the farmers’ market, and you have a CSA membership. You bring your own reusable bags, you have a bumper sticker that…
By Michale Glennon, Adirondack Watershed Institute
Do you like science? Art? Water? Wool? You can join a unique project showcasing scientific data and local fiber arts…
Carl Bowen, Director of Food and Nutrition Services at the Adirondack Medical Center has been working hard to focus the hospital’s food offerings around locally sourced…
By Tim Rowland
At the quiet intersection that marks the hamlet of Sciota, where the Adirondack mountains give way to the Canadian plains, Shane Dutil is armed with a knife.…
By Meghan Dohman, CCE Essex Farm to Institution Educator
The Cornell Cooperative Extension of Essex County (CCE Essex) Farm to School program is an educational outreach…
December 13, 2021
By Tim Rowland
Roger Hastings still has the hand-tooled wooden yoke his grandfather used to drive oxen. It’s not decorative. It will be fitted on Lewis…
By Olivia Swanson and Rebecca Williams, Americorps VISTA Volunteers
What a season it has been! For 16 weeks this summer into fall, the Power of Produce Club proved to be a lively…
Interview with Executive Chef & Operating Partner Jesse Badger at the Hearth of Malone
By Mary Godnick, Adirondack Harvest Communication Coordinator at Cornell Cooperative…
By Mary Godnick, Adirondack Harvest Communication Coordinator at Cornell Cooperative Extension of Essex County
The Thurman Fall Farm Tour is a tradition in the Southern…
Thank you to everyone who made it to Open Farm Week! We are so glad that so many folks were able to get out and tour farms, attend workshops, enjoy local food and drinks, and…
By Cori Deans, Owner of Small Town Cultures
Small Town Cultures was built on the passion to heal with plant-based probiotics that are accessible and vibrantly fresh. We are…
By Tim Rowland | September 1, 2021
In Dan Meiers’ native Switzerland, land is more beautiful than it is plentiful, a fact that drove him, along with his wife Helen and four little…
Zucchini and summer squash are inexpensive and abundant all summer long in the Adirondack region. They are versatile and can be used in a wide range of preparations from…
What is an “Heirloom” Tomato?
“Heirloom” tomatoes are from plants grown from seeds that have been passed down from season to season for 50 years or more. They are…
By, Oliva Swanson and Rebecca Williams, AmeriCorps Vista Volunteers Attendees of the June 26th Saranac Lake Farmers’ Market likely ran into excited children buzzing around the…
Fresh herbs can add flavor, color, and nutrients to pretty much any dish and drink. Fresh herbs transform any meal from something ordinary into something special. Next time you…
By Carly Summers
After driving by Lake Champlain along forest-lined roads, then through the village of Willsboro in Essex County, NY, you stop at one of the only gas stations…
By Tim Rowland
“Green shoots” has come to be synonymous with new beginnings, and for chef Jarrad Lang it was figuratively and literally how he introduced locally grown foods…
Why do some chickens lay different color eggs? The color of an eggshell is determined by the breed of chicken that laid it.
As an egg travels through the chicken’s oviduct, the…
Asparagus is a perennial flowering plant that is eaten as immature shoots. Humans have been cultivating asparagus for thousands of years, and it has been known as an indicator of…
Americans with Irish roots have been celebrating Saint Patrick’s Day for hundreds of years. For many Americans, it is a day to gather with friends and family and celebrate…
By Tim Rowland
A grape is a fickle thing. It wants the right soil, the right climate, the right orientation to the sun — so when Erwin Kalmar and his wife Norliah Asma-Kalmar…
It’s been almost a year since the Coronavirus spread to communities in the Northeast and the pandemic began to influence our day-to-day lives in the Adirondack region. Some things…
Perhaps eating healthier or doing more to support your community is on your list of resolutions for 2021. Or maybe, you’re just focused on simply staying home…
By, Rose Kaszuba, Executive Chef of Essex Eats
Most folks know Essex, New York as a place to catch the ferry to cross Lake Champlain into Vermont.
I know Essex as a…
By Tim Rowland
Curtiss Hemm teaches foodies how to prepare gourmet meals, but also has an eye on economics and locally produced foods.
Curtiss Hemm thinks about food in…
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Meet some of the folks that bring local food and products to the Adirondack region. With our Meet the Maker Series, you get to know the folks behind each…
On Saturday, September 19 we hosted the Adirondack Harvest Festival. Due to COVID-19 precautions we took the opportunity for a new format for the annual festival, and went “Free…
By Kelsie Meehan
Making Gold Bar butter is a two-day process that begins early on Saturday mornings. The morning begins with a dawn drive to Au Sable Forks to use the creamery…
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…
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…
Dave Warner Jr. saws rough cut lumber at the Wood Grain Sawmill in Keeseville. He said the mill he runs with his dad has been busy with orders this year, as people who are home…
Beet season is nigh. Photo from Fledging Crow Veggies.
Survey results time! First of all, THANK YOU to everyone who took the survey and who shared it!
One thing is…
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…
Volunteers load pre-packed orders into cars at the Saranac Lake Farmers’ Park-It. Customers order online from 10 local farms.
By Tim Rowland
By early March, Adirondack…
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Curbside pick-up at the Saranac Lake Farmers’ Park-It.
During this unprecedented pandemic, local farm and food businesses in the…
Shady Hill Farm owned by Roger and Linda Hastings
Franklin County Cooperative Extension held a Franklin County Farm Tour, organized by Jessica Prosper, Agriculture…
What a festival! A day designed to
bring farms, local businesses, and the community together! To celebrate local
farms and food, support our local economy, and give community…
“Yay Vegetables!”
Kids made ‘thank you’ cards for farmers during the last week of the event.
In the corner of my eye, I saw a small blur of blonde hair running…
Adirondack Harvest is working to bring more community members to the local food scene. This summer we launched the Power of Produce Club! We’re in the middle of a 7-week…
On June 30, 2019, after three years of funding, Adirondack Harvest completed work on its Department of Environmental Conservation Adirondack Smart Growth Grant. This grant was…
Southern Adk Local Food and Craft Beverage Festival Features Adirondack Harvest Members
Bob Barody of Blackberry Hill Farm and Sanctuary Photo by Paul Post
Recently, the…
This year’s Farm to Chef Meet & Greet was a huge success!
This year’s event was graciously hosted by one of our restaurant members, Big Slide Brewery in Lake…
