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Tag Archives: American Farmland Trust
Where in the World is the 2012 Farm Bill?
You may already know a lot, or a little, about the U.S. Farm Bill, dear Reader, but this has been my year to try to understand this smorgasbord bill, passed every five to seven years (most recently in 2008) and what it … Continue reading
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Tagged American Farmland Trust, Buy Local, Chris Gibson, Farm Bill, Farm Bill 2012, Farms, Grist, Hudson Valley, Kirsten Gillibrand, Michael Pollan
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Dine Out Irene and other Post-Flood Farm Relief Efforts
New York State farmers suffered a devastating double whammy over the last month when uninvited guests Irene and then Lee tore through the upstate and Hudson Valley regions leaving heartbreaking wreckage in their wake. It is clear we haven’t begun to … Continue reading
Hug a Farmer — Family Farms Need You
You’ve joined a CSA (and have learned to prepare vegetables you’d never even heard of five years ago). You frequent the weekly Farmer’s Market, not just in your town, but in the surrounding towns. You know the local farms and … Continue reading
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Tagged American Farmland Trust, Buy Local, Chatham Keep Farming, CISA, Columbia County, Dutchess County, farmland protection, Farms, Friends of the Farmer Festival, Glynwood, Hudson Valley, Hudson Valley Tourism, Keep Local Farms, No Farms No Food, NY Ag and Markets, Red Hook Centers and Greenspaces
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Farm Tables: Dining in the Field
The facts about farming speak for themselves: America has been losing more than an acre of farm and ranch land every minute to development.* New York State has lost almost half a million acres of farmland to subdivisions, strip malls … Continue reading
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Tagged American Farmland Trust, Buy Local, Columbia County, Dutchess County, Farm to Table, farmland protection, Farms, Gigi's Market, Great Performances, Green Peas TV, Grieg Farms, Katchkie Farms, National Young Farmers Coalition, NYFC, Outstanding in the Field, Poughkeepsie Farm Project, S.E.E.D.
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Farms R Us
Almost lost in the hoopla of the pizza party/sleepover at the state capitol and the on-time budget this week was a couple hundred farmers and friends who came to Albany Wednesday from across the state — including several buses from … Continue reading
