Harvest Blog

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 Jennifer, and daughters Lauren (age 12) and Avery (age 9) in collecting, boiling, and bottling the sweet nectar of maple trees to be enjoyed year-round. […]

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 anyway. Honey, in its raw form, lasts essentially forever. Archeologists admit to eating honey found in ancient tombs. It’s naturally antimicrobial and it’s a supersaturated, supercooled solution that […]

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 connect with the micro-climate of your area and celebrate the spring season. There are a few things you should know about harvesting wild […]

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 Jersey cow herd. Meet the owner and operator Dan Meier, and learn about how their cheese is made, from field to fork. Find more information on their retail farmstore 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 of New York’s Winter Conference on “Finding a Niche Market for your Meat”. Her presentation offered a unique look into “how the sausage is made” at Mace Chasm Farm […]

You might feel like you’re doing everything for the local food movement, but you know collectively we still have a long way to go. You may be wondering, but what else can I do? We share 5 things that you can do to really help move the local food movement forward.