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Marilyn DeMeyer says her childhood town was engulfed by development over just a few decades. Now she’s worried the same could happen to her 300-acre farm in Monroe County, New York, not far from Rochester and the shore of Lake Ontario. Fortunately for her, a number of government programs exist to preserve the state’s farmland. Agriculture is the No. 1 industry in New York state, and yet our prime farmland is being lost to poorly planned development at a frightening pace,” said De...

Article content Work on the conversion of Iroquois’ former United church into a multi-use commercial facility to a step forward Monday, after SDG council voted in favour of changing the designation of the property from residential to commercial. The change would allow for the building to be repurposed into a multi-use commercial facility which could include a boutique hotel, event hall, café/bistro, catering business, and wellness clinic. The repurposing project has already received several ...

AZTEC — A new food truck plaza could be coming to downtown Farmington in the future, and the developers have asked the City of Farmington for help making this a reality. William and Kim DuTremaine are planning on opening a gym that will help with the physical rehabilitation of their clients at Cottonwood Clinical Services, Inc. As part of that proposal, the DuTremaines have proposed creating a food truck pavilion at 324 W. Main St. that would be known as Locke Street Eats. The gym would be lo...

December 21, 2020 The Stone House Farm in New York is home to a new carbon marketplace tied to regenerative agriculture. Photo courtesy of C.J. Clouse Courtesy of Close Authorship The contraption Matt Sheffer wants to show me sits at the far end of a field of alfalfa and grasses, a weave of green and pale gold, broken only by the parallel grooves we’re trudging along, a path carved by the tires of a pickup truck. It’s Nov. 4, and America is in the midst of a presidential election that feels...

Winter farmers market opens Saturday in Holyoke Produce FILE PHOTO Published: 12/14/2020 7:21:28 AM HOLYOKE — Those looking for healthy, local food this winter in downtown Holyoke will soon have a farmers’ market where they can shop twice a month over the winter. The Holyoke Winter Farmers’ Market is set to open on Dec. 19 at the Holyoke War Memorial at 310 Appleton St., where it will run from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. every first and third Saturday of the month. As the region continues to see ri...