I'm in awe of Chef Daniel Angerer pushing food boundaries by making culinary creations
with his wife's breast milk. This just brings up so many questions, the big one from his customers being: What does it taste like?
Farm owners can get help improving laborer housing from the 2010 Community Development Block Grant Farm Labor Housing Rehabilitation Program. Owners contribute 30 percent of tota…
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Added by Meghan E. Murphy on March 10, 2010 at 8:51am —
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Week of 3-7 we are processing fresh broilers 3 to 3 1/2 lbs and rabbits.
Pork is in and we have pork cutlets, stirfry, kabobs, chops , ribs, butts & shoulders.
Order your turkeys and kielbasa and smoked hams for the holidays too.
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Added by Northwind Farms on March 7, 2010 at 5:30pm —
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NYC agriculture lawyer Cari Rincker is starting a
New York chapter of American Agri-Women. They're joining up with folks through
Facebook, Twitter, and a
Google Group. To join them you can also e
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Added by Meghan E. Murphy on March 7, 2010 at 11:19am —
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You could get $200 from the government to build your rainwater garden. How?
Sign up for this workshop.More details on the plan to create a produce
storage and and prep. facility near Kingston. Got ag. land? Ulster County is accepting applications for…
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Added by Meghan E. Murphy on March 4, 2010 at 10:02am —
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There's one more week to order from the Cornell Cooperative Extension of Ulster County's annual fruit, vegetable and evergreen seedling sale. Orders are due by Friday, march 12.
This event is a fund raiser for the Master Gardener Program of Ulster County.
The pick up dates for all orders are: Wednesday, April 21, and Thursday, April 22, from 10:00am to 4:00pm at the Ulster County Fair Grounds in New Paltz, and Friday, April 23, from 10:00am to 4:00pm, and Saturday, April 24…
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Added by Meghan E. Murphy on March 2, 2010 at 11:00am —
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Hudson Valley Wine Magazine is
holding a wine label contest to come up with the face of Hudson Valley-crafted wines. Entry is only open to winemakers, but there will be a people's vote for the best piece of work. Stay tuned for details. Meanwhile, read more about local wines at the
magazine and from the
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Added by Meghan E. Murphy on February 28, 2010 at 12:02pm —
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We are accepting applications for our Meat & Poultry CSA. The CSA will run from June to September. Pick-ups will be at the farm, the Kingston Farmers Market and the Woodstock Farm Festival Market.
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Added by Northwind Farms on February 28, 2010 at 8:30am —
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Phillies Bridge Farm, a 65-acre CSA farm just south of New Paltz, is now accepting registrations a farm-based summer camp (children ages 6-11) and Growing Together, a family program.
Growing Together is an opportunity for parents and children to learn and play side by side. Each day, the program will include a gardening or farm arts and crafts activity, harvesting and stories and songs. The cost is $120 for members and $135 for non-members.
The camp is offered for two, two-wee…
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Added by Meghan E. Murphy on February 25, 2010 at 9:30pm —
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With all of the talk on HVFN about farmers markets and the growing season just around the corner it has me quite excited about the community that I live in. I am looking forward to being wrapped up in sunshine, fresh food and happy healthy people.
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Added by Leah Kragh on February 24, 2010 at 7:00pm —
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BeerAdvocate held their annual Extreme Beer Fest in Boston this past weekend, and I was lucky enough to go. It was a hard-fought battle to taste as many mind-bending beer variations as my palate and stomach could tolerate in three short hours.
An extreme beer is a beer that pushes the boundaries of brewing. Beers with copious dimensions of flavor, wild ingredients, incredible brewing techniques, and downright strange concepts are t…
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Added by Dave Liepmann on February 23, 2010 at 9:52pm —
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Week of 2-22 we are processing fresh poussins and have more smoked kielbasa, bacon and franks available.
Turkeys from 12-20 Lbs are available call us for more info 845 757-5591.
We will be at a new farm market in Clermont in May. Please watch our webiste for additional details.
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Added by Northwind Farms on February 22, 2010 at 7:13pm —
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For the fourth year in a row, Hudson Valley restaurants from Putnam to Columbia County will offer three course pre-fixe meals, $20 for lunch, $28 for dinner. The 14-day phenomenon is meant to help local restaurants by bringing out diners in the dark-days of winter. This year the week is March 15 through 28.
Check out the website for a list of participating restaurants.
Billed as a "full-day of awesomeness," the…
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Added by Meghan E. Murphy on February 21, 2010 at 11:00am —
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Cornell Cooperative Extension Ulster County (CCEUC) and several partners are leading an initiative funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation to reverse the childhood obesity epidemic in Kingston through environmental and policy change.
Four committees are charged with seeing out the work plan of the grant, and partners are looking for Kingston residents and interested parties to become volunteer members of the committees.
Here's how to get involved:
Healthy A…
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Added by Meghan E. Murphy on February 17, 2010 at 10:18am —
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Week of of 2-15 we are processing fresh cornish hens. Customers can stop in at the farm or call ahead and place an order.
We are doing beef and pork this week as well as our smoked franks, bacon and pork belly. (Sorry all of our kielbasa is sold out for this week).
We are accepting orders for Easter turkeys and fresh smoked hams, call the farm for details.
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Added by Northwind Farms on February 15, 2010 at 3:30pm —
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This tip just in from Midsummer Farm: Martha Stewart is jumping on the urban-chicken-as-trend bandwagon. She's filming a Backyard Chicken show in March and wants to fill her studio audience with chicken-owners. You can go to her website and apply for tickets:
http://www.marthastewart.com/get-tickets.
Dairy farmers' coop is helping Hudson Valley Fresh avoid
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Added by Meghan E. Murphy on February 14, 2010 at 3:53pm —
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How come I didn't know until now about The Cheese Reporter? This is definitely my kind of journal! Sadly, they're reporting that the FDA is taking a closer look at raw milk cheeses and
considering mandatory pasteurization. Yay, Cheese Reporter. Boo... FDA.
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Added by Meghan E. Murphy on February 10, 2010 at 1:59pm —
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We are processing fresh poultry every week (cornishes, poussins, small chickens). We have frozen turkeys from 11 to 20 lbs., boneless turkey roasts , ground turkey, boneless turkey thighs, drumsticks, bone-in thighs, wings etc.
Beef and pork are avialable by the individual cut. We have smoked kielbasa, franks, pork belly, canadian bacon and kabnosy kielbasa.
We will be at the Red hook Winter Market this S
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Added by Northwind Farms on February 9, 2010 at 7:06pm —
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We have always sold individual cuts of our meat as well as whole poultry and turkeys.A number of our customers have been asking if we would consider doing a CSA for our meats. It seems that it would be easier for folks to structure their meals around
what their order of meat would be for their mont
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Added by Northwind Farms on February 8, 2010 at 3:30pm —
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The
Hudson Valley Agribusiness Development Corporation today is announcing a new plan to boost local farms and market Hudson Valley foods.
The nonprofit received a federal funds appropriation from Congressman Maurice Hinchey (D-NY) that will help build a food processing center and a cold storage facility on Route 209 between Kingston and Ellenville. The group serves farms in Ulster, Orange, Dutchess and Columbia Counties, and will also offer financing…
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Added by Meghan E. Murphy on February 5, 2010 at 9:57am —
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I hope you are all doing well and taking good care of yourselves as we move into the heart of soup making time. Winter is the season that invites us into the kitchen, creating warmth as we cook and gather around the table for nourishing food. It's also the perfect time for luxurious self care.
For me that includes time outside, dance and yoga, candlelight, long baths, giant cups of tea, more sleep, and dark chocolate- eaten slowly of course! Look below for inspiring ways to take care of yoursel…
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Added by Holly Anne Shelowitz on February 3, 2010 at 10:54am —
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