Harvest Blog

By Tim Rowland Curtiss Hemm thinks about food in ways that others don’t. Along with being a chef, he is a food instructor, food economist and food anthropologist. The Rumplestiltsken of chicken, he can spin a single bird into $188 worth of saleable restaurant product, massaging the parts many of us would throw away into pates, […]

Adirondack Harvest and our annual Harvest Festival supports community businesses, the local economy, and fresh food access by creating awareness and understanding about farms, forestry, fiber and flower businesses in the Adirondacks. This year, we are hosted online virtual tours and exhibits to keep our community safe during the COVID-19 pandemic.

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 Range” with online and self-guided in-person activities including a scavenger hunt. Local mom Bridgett and her family were the winners of our scavenger hunt with her […]

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 space at Asgaard Farm. Asgaard has been a business incubator for Gold Bar Butter, allowing me to lease their certified and well-equipped creamery space […]

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 […]

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 […]