Garlic's Answer to Scallions
"What's that?" is the comment John Purdy most often gets when people see his garlic scapes, delicacies from his garlic plants available in June and early July.
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Award Winning Goat Dairy
What started as a hobby over 20 years ago for Rita Kellogg and her children has turned into a thriving business that produces some of the best goat cheeses in the state.
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Honey Business Buzzing at Howland's
It's hard to believe that thousands of gallons of honey flow out of the little hamlet of Berkshire, NY, every year. But it does, and it comes from Howland's Honey, a family-owned business run by David Howland with his son, Michael.
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A Dairy Farm with No Barn?
Who would have thought you could run a dairy farm without a barn? The concept seems strange even to those who are acquainted with Rob and Pam Moore and their farm business. “My neighbors think I’m crazy,” Rob said.
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Corn in the Landscape
Drive down most roads in Tioga County in late summer and you pass through acres of dark green corn fields. Most of that corn isn’t the sweet type we enjoy with our summer barbecues, though, it's field corn grown to feed the huge appetites of dairy cows.
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New York Tomatoes in July
Tomato lovers eagerly await the appearance of fresh tomatoes from local farms and gardens every year. Their flavor trumps those found in the supermarket, but they’re usually not available until August in upstate New York, with the exception of the tomatoes from Our Green Acres farm.
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Planting for Mother's Day
Tim and Deb Stoughton of Stoughton Farm in Newark Valley, NY, are thinking about Mother's Day during the short days and cold nights of winter.
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Pumpkins Come Before Jack-o-lanterns
Pumpkins are far more than porch decorations or ingredients in Thanksgiving pies for Jim Jackson. As the owner of Jackson’s Pumpkin Farm on Route 17C in Campville, New York, his specialty is growing pumpkins, and they are the mainstay of his farm.
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