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By Melissa Hart
MAKING THE MOST OF YOUR MEALS: From Adirondack Harvest, an article about a chef who combats food waste. Curtiss Hemm uses his skills to teach others how to get the most bang for their buck cooking with locally grown (and often more expensive) ingredients: “Curtiss Hemm thinks about food in ways that others don’t. Along with being…
By Melissa Hart
Some of the Adirondack Park’s most popular farmers markets have switched into fall/winter market mode. And keeping with ongoing COVID precautions, they are continuing with online pre-ordering and socially distanced pick up options. SARANAC LAKE: The Saranac Lake “Farmers Park-it” is back in session. Order online by Thursdays at 9pm and pick up your orders…
By Melissa Hart
We all like farm fresh food, and even more so when you can buy it at a fair price? Back in the height of the coronavirus, nonprofit AdkAction teamed up with nonprofit food hub/commercial kitchen Hub on the Hill. Together, they produced and delivered thousands of Emergency Food Packages to those in need. Since then,…
By Melissa Hart
Annual Farm 2 Fork Festival will be held on Saturday, Sept. 5 at the San in Saranac Lake. This year’s theme is “Community is the Cure,” with a nod to the historical healing properties of Saranac Lake. The festival will feature online ordering that will be open through Sept. 2 at www.Farm2ForkFestival.com. Visitors order their picnic…
By Melissa Hart
Farm fresh fruits and vegetables are a highlight of the Adirondack summer, but for those with limited incomes, this source of produce may be entirely inaccessible. A new offering at no cost to eligible seniors and individuals in need has been launched by a partnership of community groups this summer. The Hamilton Healthy Food Connections…
Now that dining has resumed, how are restaurants faring?
By Melissa Hart
During the peak of the COVID-19 pandemic nonprofit AdkAction teamed up with Hub on the Hill commercial kitchen/local food distributor to put together emergency food packages (EFP) with a week’s worth of locally produced food and ready-to-eat meals. To date, over 2,300 food packages or about 35,500 meals, have been delivered to the doorsteps of…
Market organizers report solid sales, traffic despite changes due to COVID-19
By Melissa Hart
The Food Supply Chain System is Vulnerable In his weekly column, retired Cornell Cooperative Extension agent Richard Gast makes the argument that local meat should be a household staple, not just a luxury. He writes “America’s meatpacking plants endure some of the highest rates of workplace injury of any U.S. job sector. COVID 19 has…
By Melissa Hart
By now, we’ve all seen the effects of a vulnerable food system. ANCA makes the case for a localized approach, particularly when it comes to dairy: https://www.adirondackalmanack.com/2020/05/dumping-milk-while-people-go-hungry.html