Food systems can have a negative or positive impact on the environment, our bodies, our communities and the other sentient creatures we share our earth with. On one hand, food systems should ensure food security and improved nutrition, and they can achieve other social, economic or environmental goals. But there is also the harsh reality […]

A cheerful farmers' and artisan market in the historic Whallonsburg Grange Hall. Buy holiday gifts and stock up on locally grown and raised produce, dairy products, baked goods, maple, honey, meat, jams and jellies.

More info about this event thegrangehall.info "In this talk, Paul Smith’s professor Curt Stager shares the research and writing he has been doing on the history of African Americans in the North Country, including mapping all 3,000 lots given by Garret Smith to Black families to settle in the region in the 1850s and digging […]

About this event from thegrangehall.info "The pandemic and its aftermath brought tremendous changes and new pressures to independent farms in and around the Adirondack region. Rising costs, scarce labor, and shifting demographics and land ownership patterns are changing the ways farms work in the North Country. Climate change has added another layer of risk to […]