Articles from the Hudson Valley, Saratoga and Beyond

Cheese vendors decry unkindest cut

2011-07-04T07:22:00.000-07:00

Cheese vendors decry unkindest cut - Read the latest on open air laws that threatens to "cut" into the sales of cheese vendors at farmers markets

City Greenmarket vendors banned from cutting the cheese outside

2011-06-29T06:32:00.000-07:00

The state has a message for city Greenmarket vendors: Don't cut the cheese!
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Noah's ode to local fast food

2011-05-30T20:02:00.000-07:00

Originally published in All Over Albany, May, 2011

When I moved to New York in 1999 to go to cooking school I was in awe of how much more slowly the process of fast food chain infiltration seemed to be occurring here.

I was happy to discover a number of local fast food restaurants in the Capital Region, each with its own unique history that continues to serve their own interesting specialties.

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Capital District Community Gardens' Produce Project event offers tours, tastes

2011-05-30T19:54:00.000-07:00

Shannon Reynolds, a student at Russell Sage College in Troy, enjoys a salad prepared by Chef Noah Sheetz using freshly-picked greens from the Capital District Community Gardens’ 8th Street location during an open house event Saturday. (Jeff Couch/The Record)

By Cecelia Martinez
The Record

TROY — The Capital District Community Gardens Produce Project hosted an open house at its site on 8th Street in Troy Saturday, featuring tours of the garden and cooking demonstrations

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A New Year’s Eve Pow Wow in Albany

2010-12-24T14:43:00.000-08:00

A New Year’s Eve Pow Wow in Albany

Students and local food movement win with new school lunch overhaul

2010-12-22T06:45:00.000-08:00

Students and local food movement win with new school lunch overhaul

Senator Kristen Gillibrand – child nutrition plan becomes law

2010-12-20T15:16:00.000-08:00

Senator Kristen Gillibrand – child nutrition plan becomes law

School Nutrition is the focus as Love You Lunch launches

2010-12-13T09:25:00.000-08:00

School Nutrition is the focus as Love You Lunch launches at the Roundout Valley School District

Restaurant customers willing to pay more for local food

2010-11-16T14:31:00.000-08:00

Not only are restaurant patrons willing to pay more for meals prepared with locally sourced produce and meat, the percentage of customers that prefer local meals actually increases when the price increases, according to a team of international researchers.

Hot Tickets: Foodies at the Mount; Chefs To the Lighthouse

2010-10-07T12:36:00.001-07:00

On Friday, October 15, from 5 - 7:30 p.m., Hudson-Athens Lighthouse Preservation Society (HALPS) will host a benefit at the lighthouse, featuring hors d’ ouevres prepared by a team led by Noah Sheetz, Executive Chef of the Governor’s Mansion in Albany, along with beers from C. H. Evans Brewing Company in Albany and wine from Millbrook Vineyards & Winery

A Fig Tree Grows in Brooklyn

2010-09-30T13:42:00.000-07:00

A Fig Tree Grows in Brooklyn
By Judith Hausman, Urban Farm Contributing Editor
Wednesday, September 22, 2010

A tree grows in Brooklyn – a fig tree, that is, and in Bedford Stuyvesant, no less. In 2004, when the Rev. Robert Jackson and the Rev. DeVanie Jackson had finally trudged through the red tape and organized to clear the debris and overgrowth from a neglected lot behind the Brooklyn Rescue Mission and an adjacent lot, Robert Jackson recognized something from his time spent on a farm as a child—a scrawny twig that looked like the beginnings of a fig tree. Now the 20-foot-high, healthy tree, which is protected from winter cold by the buildings on either side, is the center of a fig jam: the kind Noah Sheetz, executive chef at the New York Governor’s Mansion, glazes lamb chops with and a community celebration.

THE GOVERNOR’S CHEF COMES TO BROOKLYN… Thanks to the Bed Stuy Farmers at the Brooklyn Rescue Mission

2010-09-19T09:24:00.000-07:00

Our Time Press
September 10, 2010
By Bernice Elizabeth Green

The Jackson’s brought Noah Sheetz, the executive chef of the Governor’s Mansion in Albany, to Brooklyn last week for a private event, The Brooklyn Rescue Mission Fig Brunch, celebrating recent local efforts to raise the community’s awareness of the importance of eating healthy to have healthier lives.

Dinner is Served on Bannerman Island, by 5 Hudson Valley Chefs

2010-08-19T13:49:00.000-07:00

Dinner is Served on Bannerman Island, by 5 Hudson Valley Chefs

Preparation Begins for Sept. 11 Bannerman Island Event

2010-08-19T06:41:00.000-07:00

Budding Cooks

2010-08-19T04:59:00.001-07:00

Photo by Luanne Ferris

Jennifer Gish
Times Union

Through Youth Organics good things are sown at the ever-growing garden plot in the city's South End, managed by the program, part of the Grand Street Community Arts. But it doesn't stop with all the produce grown there for the local food pantry, or the teens' modest roadside stand

Kids relish their garden variety

2010-08-14T06:04:00.000-07:00

On a half-acre in a schoolyard in East Greenbush, kids learn how to grow and sell the stuff they usually don't like to eat. A group of Goff Middle School and Questar III students spend a good part of their summer vacation tending their organic vegetable garden and produce stand adjacent to the Gilligan Road campus.

Bees in the City? New York May Let the Hives Come Out of Hiding

2010-06-26T13:15:00.000-07:00

New York City is among the few jurisdictions in the country that deem beekeeping illegal, lumping the honeybee together with hyenas, tarantulas, cobras, dingoes and other animals considered too dangerous or venomous for city life. But the honeybee’s bad rap — and the days of urban beekeepers being outlaws — may soon be over.

Sweet Victory: New York City Legalizes Beekeeping

2010-06-26T13:10:00.000-07:00

Sweet relief for untold numbers of outlaw New York City beekeepers came Tuesday in what was probably the most-anticipated vote ever taken by the board of the city's Department of Health and Mental Hygiene: Honeybees may now be kept legally in the five boroughs

Urban Composting: A New Can of Worms

2010-06-13T05:37:00.000-07:00

At a composting workshop run by the Lower East Side Ecology Center, a crowd of about 70 people recently learned how to set up their own worm condos at home.

How to 'Bee a New Yorker

2010-06-13T05:35:00.000-07:00

City rooftops and gardens ae a hive of activity

Stand Back, Yukon Gold: There’s a New Potato in Town

2010-06-13T05:33:00.001-07:00

Potatoes are gaining popularity at farmers’ markets and farm stands in eastern New York, Mr. Mishanec’s territory. Many are varieties Cornell has released in the last 15 years

High School for Public Service in East Flatbush plans schoolyard farm to sell fresh produce

2010-06-13T05:00:00.000-07:00

Students at the High School for Public Service in East Flatbush are building a 10,000-square-foot vegetable farm on the campus' front lawn.

Rondout Valley growers aid food pantries

2010-03-19T20:02:00.001-07:00

This summer, thanks to a pair of interns, the Rondout Valley Growers Association was able to gather, inventory, and organize donations from gleaning twice weekly

New book serves as tribute to Hudson Valley farms

2010-03-19T20:00:00.000-07:00

Read Jennifer Gish's review of Joanne Michaels' latest book about 44 upstate farms

2009 Farm-based Education Conference

2010-03-19T19:57:00.000-07:00

Stone Barns Center for Food and Agriculture

Answers About Local Food in new York

2009-12-20T07:56:00.000-08:00

In a three part series Jacquie Berger, the executive director of Just Food, answers questions from NY Times readers about local food and community supported agriculture

The Art of Eating

2009-12-20T07:54:00.000-08:00

Simple, local food is the best, says Earth Month guest contributor Alice Waters. That's not news, and that's not changing.

New York City farms and community gardens gear up for spring with increased interest

2009-11-11T07:31:00.000-08:00

New York City's urban farmers and gardeners gear up for another season

Many Summer Interships are Going Organic

2009-10-29T03:19:00.001-07:00

Liberal arts students turn to farm internships for work and inspiration for social change. The trend of Summer farm jobs held by college students is at an all-time high

Outbreak of Fungus Threatens Tomato Crop

2009-09-07T18:12:00.001-07:00

Late Blight continues to destroy the tomato crop in the Northeast

How I Learned to Love Goat Meat

2009-07-28T16:45:00.000-07:00

Eighty Five percent of the rest of the world eats goat regularly. Why don't we?

Big-box blight hits tomatoes

2009-07-28T16:42:00.001-07:00

Big-box blight hits tomatoes

Cornell links Southern wholesaler to problem with backyard favorite

From Showpiece to Sustainable Crops, a Farm Shifts

2009-05-25T18:56:00.000-07:00

Read about the Queens County Farm Museum, their sustainablity methods and their plans for expansion

Brooklyn’s New Culinary Movement

2009-04-21T16:13:00.000-07:00

Read about food artisans of Brooklyn

Answers About Local Food in New York

2009-04-19T19:20:00.000-07:00

In a three part series Jacquie Berger, the executive director of Just Food, answers questions from NY Times readers about local food and community supported agriculture

First Family To Plant White House Veggie Garden

2009-04-01T19:17:00.000-07:00

First Family To Plant White House Veggie Garden

The National School Lunch Program

2009-03-01T12:00:00.000-08:00

The National School Lunch Program

Country, the City Version: Farms in the Sky Gain New Interest

2009-02-26T18:31:00.001-08:00

Read about vertical farming, where urban farming and "going green" come together

Manhattan Borough Chief Pushes for Better Nutrition in City

2009-02-22T17:44:00.000-08:00

Manhattan Borough Chief Pushes for Better Nutrition in City

Warren Co. cheese maker on Food Network show

2009-02-01T17:53:00.000-08:00

Warren Co. cheese maker on Food Network show
Read about Nettle Meadow Farm's feature in an episode of the new Food Network show "Will Work for Food"

Alice Waters’s Open Letter to the Obamas

2009-02-01T17:50:00.000-08:00

Alice Waters’s Open Letter to the Obamas

Sam Kass, sustainable food advocate and friend of the Obamas, was recently appointed as an assistant White House chef

At Midlife, Called to a New Field

2009-02-01T17:47:00.000-08:00

At Midlife, Called to a New Field
Read about the former and midlives of The Gibsons and Grazin' Angus Acres and Jen Small and Mike Yezzi of Flying Pigs Farm

A Locally Grown Diet With Fuss but No Muss

2009-02-01T17:38:00.000-08:00

A Locally Grown Diet with Fuss but No Muss
Paying others to source local food for you

Boosting Health With Local Food

2009-02-01T17:35:00.000-08:00

Boosting Health With Local Food
Is locally grown food better for you?

An Online Farmer's Market

2009-01-20T15:26:00.000-08:00

An Online Farmer's Market
By Claire Cain Miller
From the Technology section of The New York Times
January 16, 2009

Farm Start

2009-01-09T17:15:00.001-08:00

Ever wondered how new farms get started? Farm Start helps aspiring new farmers with start-up funding

Food Storage as Grandma Knew It

2009-01-09T17:13:00.001-08:00

Will the art of keeping a root cellar make a come back?

Could Rice be the Northeast’s Newest Grain Crop?

2009-01-09T17:12:00.001-08:00

For the past two years, Linda and Takeshi Akaogi have been experimenting with growing rice on their small farm in Putney, Vermont

Table’s Bounty: Keeping It Local

2009-01-09T17:10:00.001-08:00

A locavore thanksgiving. Locavores offer tips to preparing local menus over the holidays

Brooklyn Returns to a Heady Time

2009-01-09T17:08:00.001-08:00

Read the latest about local beer in Brooklyn

Fancy Country, With a Local Flavor

2009-01-09T17:06:00.000-08:00

Read about the Tavern at Highlands Country Club in Garrison and their locally based menu

A Spirit Moves on the Land: Locally Grown Produce

2009-01-09T17:04:00.000-08:00

Read about small scale agriculture and the Rockland Farm Alliance in Rockland County

Urban farmers plant roots and harvest food

2009-01-09T17:02:00.000-08:00

Read about urban farming in New York City

Neilsen: Books for cooks

2008-12-20T21:31:00.000-08:00

Nielsen: Books for cooks
By ANNETTE NIELSEN
For The Saratogian

A ‘Farmer-in-Chief?’ — Time’s Never Been Riper

2008-12-07T07:37:00.000-08:00

A ‘Farmer-in-Chief?’ — Time’s Never Been Riper
Read Neal Peirce's latest take on a topic that continues to gain momentum - how will the president address local food policy?

Farmer in Chief

2008-11-30T18:32:00.001-08:00

Farmer in Chief
Michael Pollan addresses the president about serious issues facing our current food system:

Uniting Around Food to Save an Ailing Town

2008-11-10T12:36:00.001-08:00

Uniting Around Food to Save and Ailing Town
Agricultural entrepreneurs unite. Read about the latest collaborative sustainable effort in Vermont.

McCain Foods Better For You.com

2008-11-09T15:14:00.000-08:00

McCain Foods Better For You.Com
You be the judge - Is the new McCain blog helping in the fight to end childhood obesity

Heather Ridge Farm Order Form

2008-11-08T07:44:00.000-08:00