How big is too big? Small farms lay bare the struggles they face
By Tim Rowland
Essex County farm owners get candid about difficulties in growing pains, finding the right scale, maintaining profitability
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Mayfield farmer is betting on solar
A Fulton County dairy farmer is hoping to keep his business afloat with the addition of a 40-megawatt solar array.
A North Country nutrition champion
By Tim Rowland
Julie Holbrook converts school menus, connects with farms
Adirondack farmer-author discusses new memoir, and Essex Farm
Kristin Kimball owns and runs Essex Farm, the Champlain Valley, with her husband Mark. Simon & Schuster recently published her second memoir about her family’s life on the farm, “Good Husbandry,” a sequel to her 2010 bestseller, “The Dirty Life.”
Champlain Valley farmers branch out
Essex County’s farming revival of the last decade or so, which primarily fed regional markets at first, is increasingly supported by sales in urban markets elsewhere in the state—often in New York City.
North Country creamery tries crowdfunding
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.
Micro-grants help farms address social, environment issues
“Sustainable farms, local food and local businesses are essential to the park’s quality of life,” Adirondack Council Executive Director William Janeway said
A new crop of farmers
Young agrarians find happiness in working the land and building community in the Champlain Valley By Tracy Frisch WHEN ASA Thomas-Train met his future wife, Courtney Grimes-Sutton, she was skinning a pig. Rather than wonder why an attractive young woman was doing a job usually reserved for big, brawny guys, Asa reacted with admiration. “She’s…