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 with the Paul Smith’s College Adirondack Watershed Institute. Wool and Water is a data art project in which we are using knitting, crochet, weaving and other fiber arts to […]
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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 food purchased by the Adirondack Medical Center is from local farmers. Adirondack Medical Center is a cornerstone institution in the community of Saranac Lake, NY, […]
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. It’s a good way to cut meat, but little defense against the forces that have rocked his industry, that thin but crucial band of sinew […]
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 increase the amount of locally grown, healthy foods in school meals. This program also provides area schools with classroom lessons on local food and agriculture, […]
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 Clark, the latest yoke that Hastings has trained to pull firewood from the woodlot on the farm his ancestors came west from Brandon to settle […]
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 a lively addition to the Lake Placid and Saranac Lake Farmers’ Markets. The program run by CCE Essex offered educational kids activities focused on nutrition, […]
