Locavore lore
By julie at February 16, 2011 | 11:29 pm | 0 Comments
Food, Inc. farmer Joel Salatin keynotes Woodstock Land Conservancy symposium on regional food this Saturday The greater Hudson Valley region is rapidly becoming a veritable, if not still small-scale, breadbasket for citizens here – and in the New York metropolitan area as well. Small vegetable and grain farms, dairies and various meat producers are offering
How to keep your hive alive
By julie at February 17, 2011 | 1:30 am | 0 Comments
Workshops on organic beekeeping for beginners offered in Rosendale What the heck is going on with the bees? Among the many environmental mysteries that have surfaced in recent years, one of the most alarming has been the sudden appearance of Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD) in the US in 2006 and its subsequent rapid spread around the world. Whole hives of
Crops in the city
By admin at February 24, 2011 | 1:23 pm | 0 Comments
Jesica Clark seeks help to start “urban farm” in Kingston Jesica Clark is not your typical farmer. Instead of spending a rustic life on a bucolic family farm, the 31-year-old Kingston resident grew up in the Bronx. And when she decided to start up her own agricultural venture, she didn’t look to the rolling farmland of southern Ulster County, but a vacant lot on
Agriculture by design
By admin at February 25, 2011 | 7:08 am | 0 Comments
Hudson Valley Seed Library packs designed by local artists The small, exquisite images that adorn the Hudson Valley Seed Library’s line of seed packets bring a delightful imagining to the likes of patty pan squash, salad greens, zinnias, chard and carrots. The original artworks were selected by seed library owners Ken Greene and Doug Muller from more than 70
Can do!
By admin at April 21, 2011 | 12:47 pm | 0 Comments
“Canstruction” on view at NYS Museum in Albany to raise funds for food banks “Canstruction,” up for another week on the fourth floor of the New York State Museum in Albany (where the carousel is located), charms as much via its intentions as its visuals. Started in 1992 as a means of spurring on food donations for those going hungry,
Esopus celebrates bicentennial with Apple Festival
By Crispin Kott at September 21, 2011 | 3:33 pm | 0 Comments
Harvest of history Even Willard Scott would have given up at this point and not tried to say that the Town of Esopus was 200 years young. Esopus is in the midst of its bicentennial celebration, and as we leave the sunshine of summer behind for autumn, here’s what they’ve got on tap: The Fall Festival kicks off all across Esopus on Saturday, September 24 with yard
Tap into our local maple festivals
By admin at February 22, 2012 | 4:16 pm | 0 Comments
by Frances Marion Platt - As this issue of Alm@nac goes to press, it’s Shrove Tuesday or Mardi Gras, known in some places as Pancake Day. Making flapjacks to use up all of a family’s supply of fat, eggs and milk before Lent begins on Ash Wednesday, and then racing them from place to place in a frying pan, is a tradition that has been traced as far back as 1445 in
The apotheosis of the apple
By admin at October 11, 2012 | 6:53 pm | 0 Comments
Cider Week events reintroduce historically popular Hudson Valley beverage product - by Sharyn Flanagan Hard cider was once made and consumed throughout the country, but due to temperance politics and Prohibition, it eventually became a historical curiosity. Now, however, the beverage is making a comeback, featured in bars and restaurants all over the area, and regional
To market, to market
By admin at February 6, 2013 | 10:33 pm | 0 Comments
Just how do we get fresh produce in the middle of winter, anyway? - by John Litton One evening in late December, my daughter Molly and I were enjoying her favorite meal. The wonderful and tasty dish called calabacitas requires fresh green summer squash, fresh yellow crookneck squash, fresh yellow onions, fresh jalapenos, fresh roasted corn and as a topping, fresh
Is grass-fed beef really better?
By admin at March 13, 2013 | 8:07 pm | 0 Comments
by John Litton Since moving to the Valley area nearly ten years ago, I’ve watched the turf war between grain-fed and grass-fed beef grow. It is now almost a war of religions, with each side making and rebutting claims. The common wisdom is that grass-fed beef is better for you: an argument much like Coke versus Pepsi. I decided to find out which beef is
Farming in the Hudson Valley
By admin at May 15, 2013 | 8:53 pm | 0 Comments
Whom does the Hudson Valley feed, and how do they do it? – John Litton I was back in Texas for a funeral. The cemetery is out on what I call “the old home place,” the family farm. My cousin Neil farms it, but it is mostly raw land now. We talked about farming: what he is putting in and why, what he thinks he will get out of it. Most of the farms in his area
