The winners of the 2016 Catskills Food Guide Photo Contest

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Each year, we ask readers of the Watershed Post and our Catskills Food Guide to send us their photos of Catskills food and farms. This year, 25 photographers entered our 2016 Catskills Food Guide Photo Contest

Thanks to our contest sponsor, Peekamoose Restaurant & Tap Room in Big Indian, who generously awarded a $75 gift certificate to our grand prize winner. 

Thanks to everyone who entered. To see all of those great photos, click here

Grand Prize Winner

Herondale Holsteins, a fourth-generation Delaware County dairy and maple farm in East Meredith, photographed in Sept. 2015. Photo by Landa Palmer. (See image above.)

Second Place

Baby alpaca Shae bonds with her mother at Heather Ridge Farm in Preston Hollow in Sept. 2015. Photo by Niva Dorell. 

Third Place

Squash in Stamford in Oct. 2015. Photo by Dave Turan.

Honorable Mentions

Thanksgiving Farm at the Center for Discovery by Kirby Thompson is featured on one of the three covers of the 2016 Catskills Food Guide. 

Wolf River Apples by William Palmer is featured on one of the three covers of the 2016 Catskills Food Guide.

Bovina Valley Farm by Dan Finn is featured on p. 2 of the 2016 Catskills Food Guide.

Pakatakan Farmers' Market by Dan Thomas is featured on p. 3 of the 2016 Catskills Food Guide. 

See all the entries in the 2016 contest in the clickable slideshow below:

2016 Catskills Food Guide Photo Contest

This article originally appeared in the print version of the 2016 Catskills Food Guide, our annual publication covering food and farms in the Catskills. The Catskills Food Guide is distributed across the Catskills region and at select locations in the NYC metropolitan area. Find a copy near you here. 

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