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Melissa is a journalist with experience as a reporter and editor, combined with work for nonprofits. As the Explorer's digital editor, she serves as editor of Adirondack Almanack.(com) and helps manage the Explorer's website. When not online, she enjoys hiking, camping and other outdoors activities, and spending time with her husband, their twin daughters, and rescue animals -- two dogs and two cats.
By Melissa Hart
Aims to match it in fundraising; applications for farm grants due Nov. 30 Looking ahead into 2020, the Adirondack North Country Association (ANCA) is setting some big goals to help local farms grow. The nonprofit, which has a mission to “catalyze sustainable economic development across the Adirondack North Country and enhance the quality of life…
By Melissa Hart
Wednesday, Nov.13, 2019, 3-5 PM Beef producers as well as the larger agricultural community are invited to a free farm tour at the East Adirondack Cattle Company, owned and operated by Greg Weber. Greg is an independent nutrition consultant, for both dairy and beef operations. He currently has about 60 Black Angus cattle. Greg will…
By Melissa Hart
Increasingly, a number of northern New York farms are giving equity crowdfunding a try, using a grassroots online platform called Kiva. With a tagline of “loans that change lives,” Kiva showcases projects from around the world, many of which are agriculture based.
By Melissa Hart
When looking for capital to put toward improvement projects, the region’s up-and-coming generation of farmers often turn to their supporters for assistance, using crowd-based funding platforms. If you’ve ever given online to a campaign, you’re probably familiar with the two main types: rewards-based (such as Kickstarter.com), where you contribute money toward a project and, depending…
By Melissa Hart
A classic Adirondack outing
By Melissa Hart
New memoir by Kristin Kimball picks up where ‘The Dirty Life’ left off The new book by Kristin Kimball of Essex Farm comes out today and I just received my copy in the mail. Looking forward to reading this! Let me know: Have you read “The Dirty Life”? And are you planning to read “Good…
By Melissa Hart
Stock up at this year’s Essex Country Cheese Tour, on Sunday, Oct. 13 This year’s Essex County Cheese Tour is coming up on Sunday, Oct. 13. In honor of the occasion, Ashlee Kleinhammer and Steve Googin, owners of North Country Creamery in Keeseville, shared this recipe for a homemade mac and cheese featuring their farmstead…
By Melissa Hart
Until recently, the trails on the property were available to members of the public, too, for hiking, skiing and snowshoeing.
By Melissa Hart
Let’s explore this together! Hi there! Thanks for being part of this new experiment in regional journalism. The Adirondack Explorer has partnered with Pactio, a publishing platform that values trust and high-quality journalism, to offer micro-subscriptions to readers who are willing to pay a small amount to support this specific area of coverage by our…
By Melissa Hart
Annual Essex County cheese tour coming up Columbus Day weekend Since 2014, three unique Adirondack farm-based creameries have teamed up on hosting a daylong open house. Now in its sixth year, the 2019 Essex County Cheese Tour is taking place from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Sunday, Oct. 13 and features some of the…