watershed agricultural council
By Pure Catskills on Monday, Feb. 28, 2011 - 12:27 pm
By Pure Catskills on Monday, Feb. 28, 2011 - 12:19 pm
By Julia Reischel on Monday, Nov. 15, 2010 - 5:06 pm
Saturday's meeting of the Coalition of Watershed Towns. Photo and videos by Julia Reischel.
Taking advantage of a “Halley's comet” moment of influence, the Coalition of Watershed Towns has negotiated a new agreement with the New York City Department of... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Saturday, Jul. 10, 2010 - 12:45 pm
A tour group gets a close-up look at a manure storage barn, on a Watershed Agricultural Council bus tour of farms in the New York City watershed.
On June 3, a few dozen curious people boarded a chartered bus in Delhi, donned plastic booties, and set out... Read more
By WP Newsroom on Thursday, Apr. 29, 2010 - 2:46 pm
Fifty grand from the Watershed Agricultural Council (via its Pure Catskills program) and the NYC Department of Environmental Protection is going to 15 local businesses to fund things like local soup at Good Cheap Food in Delhi and livestock processing at... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Wednesday, Apr. 7, 2010 - 11:55 pm
Pure Catskills, the local-food-and-farms program run by the Watershed Agricultural Council, is running a photo contest. Instructions from their blog:
Each photo entered will:
• Feature a local farm and/or food theme
• Feature a location or a business in... 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
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