On November 10 friends, volunteers, and Farm Hub staff joined representatives from the Akwesasne community and Seedshed for a traditional harvest ceremony to celebrate the third harvest of the Native American Seed Sanctuary. Highlights included corn braiding, bean threshing, and tastings of traditionally prepared corn mush made with corn from the three sisters garden. The Farm Hub is grateful for the […]
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The Hudson Valley Farm Hub and The Kingston YMCA Farm Project are partnering to make fresh produce available to all Kingston residents through the fall and winter months. This new winter market will begin on November 15 and will run every Thursday through the month of January 2019 from 3:30-6:00 pm in the lobby of the Kingston YMCA at 507 […]
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“We’ve achieved proof of concept.” To celebrate the last five years of small grains research, the Farm Hub held an event Tuesday recognizing the progress made and the eleven partners in the Hudson Valley that made this project possible. This research aims to determine which varieties of wheat, barley, rye, and oats can be grown in the Hudson Valley organically […]
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Over the past two weeks, ProFarmer Andrew Casner donated over 2,200 pounds of Black Futsu squash that he grew as part of his field project. The squash was processed with volunteers from UlsterCorps and the youth crew from the Kingston YMCA Farm Project. The volunteers cut, baked, bagged, and then froze the squash for donation during the winter months! Even the seeds were […]
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Farm Hub Director Brooke Pickering-Cole participated in a panel discussion moderated by Carolyn Kormann of The New Yorker with Jen Benson, the Outreach Coordinator for Riverkeeper, and Maija Niemisto, the Education Director for Clearwater. The panel was part of a Hudson River Stories film screening at the Lumberyard in Catskill on October 7. One of the films shown was Seeds of Hope, a short documentary […]
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On September 27 Elson Shields and Tony Testa of Cornell University visited the Farm Hub to share research findings on our ongoing nematode research trial with Teresa Rusnik of Cornell Cooperative Extension’s Eastern New York Commercial Horticulture Program. The focus of the discussion was on the positive results from the trial’s first year: Nematodes have decreased the presence of soil-dwelling […]
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Thanks to everyone who came out on September 20 to see the Farm Hub’s native meadow trials. Anne Bloomfield, the Farm Hub’s farmscape ecology coordinator, along with Claudia Knab-Vispo, Erin Allen, and Conrad Vispo of Hawthorne Valley’s Farmscape Ecology Program, led the participants through three kinds of meadows replicated in three locations. Two years since seeding, they also shared research and […]
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Thank you to Wild Earth and youth from the Kingston YMCA Farm Project for lending a hand to help us and SEEDSHED at our Native American Seed Sanctuary last week! Mary Arquette, of the Akwesasne community, led a discussion about the Three Sisters Garden and its symbolism and importance as a traditional growing method. For more information about this project, click here.
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We can’t help but feel a little proud of our Kernza field. Wes Jackson, the executive director of Kansas-based The Land Institute, recently visited the Farm Hub to see the field and the Kernza’s encouraging progress. This is the second year that we’ve grown Kernza at the Farm Hub, and it will be harvested later this month and sent to the […]
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We are pleased to welcome our new field crops production manager, Jay Goldmark. With experience as both a farmer and educator, Jay’s background makes him uniquely equipped for this newly created position at the Farm Hub. Until recently, Jay was based in eastern Washington managing his third-generation family farm, Double J Ranch, where he was instrumental in implementing no-till seeding […]
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