healthy food - New ag specialists in Northern New York - SIBEJO

 Cornell Cooperative Extension has made 7 unique specialists available to northern New York farmers over the past year. Their expertise covers everything from business planning to technical crop and livestock knowledge.  Read More&nb...

healthy food - Farmer Friday - 8 O'Clock Ranch - SIBEJO

Intern Amands Korb offers us another reflection on food and farming issues on the last day of her internship...In the 21st century, the rise of grass-fed, all-natural, free-range, cage-free, pasture-based animal products is certainly evident. We buy the bloodless package of ground...

healthy food - Scholarships for Young Farmers Conference - SIBEJO

Stone Barns Center for Food and Agriculture  is offering a limited number of farmer scholarships to the 2016 Young Farmers Conference on December 7, 8 and 9. Scholarships cover the cost of conference registration only; recipients are expected to cover the cost of lodging...

healthy food - Farmer Friday - Lazy River Farm - SIBEJO

 Intern Amanda is back with another profile of a local farmer...There are some people in life that you just immediately connect. This is how I felt when I met Mike Watkins at his farm, Lazy River, in Hermon. His patient demeanor coupled with his knack at reading someone�s personality...

healthy food - Summer grower meeting next week - SIBEJO

Summer Grower MeetingWednesday, August 3, 2016    6:30-8:00 pm Cornell Cooperative Extension Learning Farm2043B Rte 68, Canton, NYFeatured Topics:Training and Pruning High Tunnel Cherry TomatoesLeaf Mold Resistant Cherry Tomato Variety TrialThis Year�s Disease Challenges...

healthy food - Farmer Friday - Lay Z Ducks Farms - SIBEJO

GardenShare summer intern, Amanda, reflects on another farm visit this week...When I went grocery shopping at Price Chopper with my parents this week, I couldn�t help but notice distinct differences in our shopping habits now that I buy food for myself. My mom reached for a head...

healthy food - Farmer Friday: J & W Orchards - SIBEJO

The beauty of fruit trees in pristinely mowed rows struck me as I pulled into the driveway of J & W Orchards in Norfolk. Escorting me to the front door was a stone path lined with immaculate perennial gardens, completely weed free and in full blossom. Angie Conger opened the...

healthy food - Farmer Friday - Sawyer Creek Farm - SIBEJO

When people give directions in a small town, the instructions usually go like this:�Okay, so you�re going to go straight through town past the old Agway. Keep headed down that way until you hit the four-corners with the old dairy farm on the left. When you�ve pass a fallen silo,...

healthy food - Farmer Friday - Sweetcore Farm - SIBEJO

It's Farmer Friday again and this time, intern Amanda profiled Dave Rice of Sweetcore Farm.  Dave has a long association with Garden Share, having served three years on the Board of Directors, and still serving on our Fund Development Committee.As a young adult, I am told the...

healthy food - Farmer Friday - Circle G Farm - SIBEJO

This week, intern Amanda visits Circle G Farm.  Located in Hammond, the farm sells at both the Hammond and the Canton Farmers Markets.  This time she shot some video to accompany her report.To say I feel nervous every time I step out of my car onto a new farm is an understatement....

healthy food - "Farmer Friday" - Fuller Farm - SIBEJO

Kathy looks at her mustard plants, which have recently flowered due to the high temperatures.It's "Farmer Friday" and intern Amanda has another farmer profile to share...Tucked away on a side road in Canton New York is a small-scale, but fully functional vegetable farm owned by Kathy...

healthy food - Scarecrows! - SIBEJO

From the e-mail inbox:Dear Ms. McAdam:Hello, my name is Brianna Larrabee.  I am a sophomore at Canton High School and I am working with a group of high school students on a new volunteer project with the Canton Recreation Department.  They are gathering 6th-8th grade kids...

healthy food - Smith Farm Chicken - a local success story - SIBEJO

SLU student and summer intern Amanda Korb will be spending part of her time visiting farmers and profiling them here on the GardenShare blog.  Here's her first entry:�Fajita spiced Smith Farm Chicken Breast on a crisp house made blue and yellow corn tortilla with queso fresco,...

healthy food - Agriculture and sustainability - SIBEJO

Austin Miles, a college student, wrote an interesting piece about sustainability and scale, which ran in Ohio University�s student newspaper, The Post.  The article states that no measure of distance, no simple definition of local or global is an indicator of either inherent...

healthy food - New CCE ag teams aiding North Country - SIBEJO

 ALBANY � Home to rich soil, a large dairy presence and determined crop producers, New York�s North Country also has more square miles than the entire state of Vermont and faces unique agribusiness challenges. Helping farmers navigate those issues are a pair of new...