What is a CSA? Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) is a model where a member pays for a “share” of a farmer’s offerings in advance, making a commitment to a local […]
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Spotlight On Local Food at the Adirondack Medical Center
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 ingredients since 2014. Today, an outstanding 40% of […]
D&D Meats Earns Competitive USDA Grant to Reduce Pressures on Local Producers
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. […]
Generous Acts Grant and CCE Essex Paying the Bill so Schools Can Serve More Local Food Through Pandemic Challenges
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 initiative that works to […]
Shady Hill Farm Steps Forward, and Backward, in Time
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 and […]
Third Year of the Power of Produce Club a Success
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 […]
