Food
By WP Newsroom on Friday, Mar. 26, 2010 - 4:28 pm
Yesterday, we published a story and short video about this year's maple syrup yields, which some astute observers estimate are down 80% in the Catskills region.
We got an email from forester Peter Smallidge, who directs the maple program at Cornell... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Thursday, Mar. 25, 2010 - 9:46 pm
The Watershed Post interviews George and Duane LaFever, Catskill maple syrup producers.
It's the peak of New York's annual maple festival, and local tappers are saying the maple syrup yield in the Catskills is worse than it's ever been.
An evaporatorSugar... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Thursday, Mar. 25, 2010 - 10:03 am
March means lots of new lambs at Catskill Merino, a small sheep-raising and yarnmaking farm in Goshen--and lots of work for the farmer.
Leaving, I swept the flashlight around the blackness of the yard seeing its beam reflected by many pairs of sheep... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Monday, Mar. 22, 2010 - 2:28 pm
It's maple syrup season in the Catskills, and everybody's getting into the spirit. Last Saturday was the first day of Maple Weekend, when local producers of maple syrup and maple sugar throw open their sugar house doors to tourists. (The festival pours... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Sunday, Mar. 21, 2010 - 2:13 pm
We're at the Pure Catskills Farm to Market conference in Liberty today, hobnobbing with farmers, buyers, distributors and foodies of all stripes. We'll be posting later--in the meantime, feel free to follow us on Twitter: @watershedpost.
By WP Newsroom on Friday, Mar. 19, 2010 - 5:06 pm
Come for the fresh guacamole, stay for the pineapple-infused tequila. Hudson Valley Magazine's Lynn Hazlewood checks out Gaby's Cafe, a new-ish Mexican place in Ellenville, and declares it delectable:
It’s a casual little place, painted in bright, fruity... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Wednesday, Mar. 17, 2010 - 11:33 pm
Federal antitrust top cop Christine Varney has been talking to farmers across the nation lately about anti-competitive agricultural markets. On March 29, she'll be at Genesee Community College to get an earful from New York's dairy farmers.
Farmers... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Tuesday, Mar. 16, 2010 - 4:40 pm
If you're a farmer, odds are you don't have $100,000 in your back pocket for an M.B.A. But you've got business problems that would keep Warren Buffett up at night. How do you get your perishable wares to eaters (and, of course, buyers) of food? Finding... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Thursday, Mar. 11, 2010 - 6:13 pm
Public school lunch is generally a joyless affair: mystery-meat sloppy joes, frozen tater tots, canned string beans that last saw dirt and sunlight sometime in the Clinton administration. But for one glorious day this week, Delaware Academy students in... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Thursday, Mar. 11, 2010 - 2:32 pm
One of Spring Lake Farm's sows enjoying the March sunshine. Photo by Ulla Kjarval.
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