12.31.2023 Year in Review 2023 Year in Review: Long Island Wine Country celebrates 50 years 2023 was a big year for Long Island Wine Country, marking 50 years since the first wine-centric vines were planted — on a plot of fallow potato farmland. Today,...
02.15.2022 News Farm Laborers Wage Board recommends implementing 40 hour overtime threshold over next decade The farm wages overtime threshold could be lowered from 60 to 40 hours a week over the next 10 years, if approved by the state. In a Jan. 28...
12.06.2017 Government Southold Town Board withdraws winery proposal after ag community speaks out Dozens of speakers at a packed Southold Town Hall Tuesday night, including some wearing “Support Local Farmers” pins, urged the Town Board to reconsider its proposed code amendments on...
02.25.2017 Columns Guest Column: The positive impact of the North Fork’s wine industry The first day in 1973 that my then-husband, Alex, and I arrived on the farm we’d bought in Cutchogue, on Long Island’s North Fork, to plant the region’s first...
03.30.2015 Real Estate Pindar, Duck Walk production won’t be affected by land sale One of Long Island’s pioneering wine families has sold nearly 90 acres of waterfront land in Cutchogue to a mystery buyer — including nearly 30 acres of mature vineyards...
10.07.2014 Real Estate One of the region’s smallest vineyards hits the market It’s among the tiniest of vineyards on the North Fork, and it could be yours: The Hidden Vineyard in Calverton. The 15-acre property has just seven acres of vines,...
09.01.2014 Agriculture North Fork grapes are in high demand upstate While Long Island’s grapes weathered a harsh winter just fine, the unusually erratic and wet winter months upstate New York experienced have led to extreme losses of grapes across that region, putting the local...
07.12.2014 Columns Column: Tragic marker of time for a wine region The untimely and tragic deaths of Ann Marie and Marco Borghese have me thinking about the passage of time, particularly insofar as the North Fork’s grape-growing/wine industry is concerned....
08.26.2013 Business Harvest East End a tribute to 40 years of L.I. wines More than 1,200 food and wine lovers, including Governor Andrew Cuomo, celebrated the 40th anniversary of Long Island Wine Country at the first Harvest East End ever hosted on the...
08.19.2013 News Eight North Fork vineyards make grade for sustainable wine growing Eight North Fork wineries can now add a L.I. Sustainable Wine logo to their 2012 vintages. On Friday, environmental advocacy organization Group for the East End officially endorsed the...