Pure Catskills: Website Upgrade in Progress
We invite you to support the farmers that care for the land surrounding New York City's reservoirs. By using sound environmental practices, Catskills Region farmers provide food that is healthy and water that is pure. Buy from a Pure Catskills farmer and contribute to the future of our food system. Over the next week, certain apsects of our website will be under construction. Thanks for your patience!
Get in the Guide!!
Farm and food businesses are encouraged to enroll in for the 2011-2012 Guide to Farm Fresh Products. Application form
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Contact us for a copy or take a look right here.
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Visit Catskill WoodNet
Catskill WoodNet is a regional network of businesses that harvest and manufacture wood products from New York's Catskill Mountain Region. Through improved land stewardship in the New York City Watershed, our goal is to encourage a working landscape that connects people with local forest resources.
What's Fresh
Spring has arrived! At last, the days are growing longer and the first harvest is starting to come in.
Maple Syrup
The sweetest harvest is boiled down in sap houses across the region. Make time for a tour or a pancake breakfast.
Keep an eye out for the guide at hundreds of locations in the region, or view online now.
Calendar
The New Approach to Organic Gardening
The Cutting Garden, Youngsville
Sundays, monthly through June
$125.00 or $100.00 for NOFA NY Members
A four session course centered on a step by step approach to creating and maintaining a permanent, low maintenance system of production for food, flowers and trees based on the natural system of the forest.
For more information or to register, call 845-483-3333, 845-482-4164 or email cuttinggarden@hotmail.com.
Catskills FarmLink Workshops
March 21: eCenter, Delhi
March 22: Duggan Community Center, White Lake
These events will offer an introduction to evaluating land for agricultural use and a discussion on leasing land for farming. An overview of the Catskills FarmLink program will be provided as well.
NOFA NY Field Day
Saturday, March 24, 2012
Get A Jump On the Season: Over-Wintering Greens, High Tunnel Strategies, and Greenhouse Techniques for an Early Start to Your Growing Season
Learn about Lucky Dog’s high tunnel operation: what types of crops are over-wintered and what their techniques are, be introduced to Lucky Dog’s soil blocking and transplant system and learn how Lucky Dog farms through the winter and gets an early start on spring, making the most of the growing season.
Lucky Dog Farm, Hamden
10 am to 1 pm
FREE for NOFA-NY Members / $15 All Others
Farm to Market Connection
Sunday, March 25th
The annual Pure Catskills conference is coming! Spend the day connecting with farmers and buyers hailing from the Catskills to the metropolitan region.The day offers workshops, networking and, of course, delicious local food. Register online now!
Hudson Valley CSA Fair
Saturday, April 14
10 am to 2 pm
Kingston, NY
While the buy-local movement is growing, most people are still not familiar with CSAs. Not only do CSA farmers need to sell the benefits of local food, but they also need to explain the CSA model.
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