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09.29.2025 Featured Story

North Fork farmers adapt crops, schedules to climate change impacts

The conversation around climate change often feels abstract, but for North Fork farmers, its effects are measured in tangible terms: delayed harvests, frost-damaged crops, and the constant recalibration of...

11.21.2024 Agriculture

Farms for the Future helps Army veteran give back

From the war-torn deserts of Afghanistan to a tranquil field at Charnews Farm in Southold, Tim Curry is the first U.S. Army veteran to participate in the Peconic Land...

09.23.2024 Agriculture

CSAs help keep area farmers in the green

Bunches of broccoli, vibrant flowers, succulent berries and green cardboard boxes of freshly picked yellow squash are part of the homegrown produce that greets customers when they pull into...

06.17.2024 Agriculture

ReWild relaunches farm compost program with area residents

With composting being a simple way to make a positive impact on the environment, ReWild Long Island recently resurrected a pilot compost program that began in Southold Town pre-COVID-19....

04.12.2024 Agriculture

Workforce housing tackled on site at local farm

Near the middle of the Wickham farm in Cutchogue, an old bungalow is being remodeled for workforce housing. Two new bathrooms are being added, along with new bedrooms, heating...

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11.13.2023 Environment

The American chestnut makes a comeback

The American chestnut tree makes a Long Island comeback after four billion trees were wiped out in early 1900s. Hope and history are being revived at Salt Air farm...

11.10.2023 Agriculture

After six wet weekends, the apple farmers are hurting

In the lower section of an old barn at Wickham’s Fruit Farm in Cutchogue, apple farmers store crates overflowing with apples in a cooler. On a fall morning last...

10.03.2023 Agriculture

Local groups work to stop the spread of invasive plant species on the East End

For thousands of years, plants and pollinators on the North Fork have evolved together, and their relationship has been mutually beneficial. But in the last few centuries, some of...

06.01.2023 News

Southold Town and Greenport Village boards explore new ways to protect the vital village waterfront

Greenport’s new mayor and Village Board members held their first joint meeting with the Southold Town Board Tuesday to discuss how the governing bodies could work cooperatively to address...

05.23.2023 Agriculture

Guest column: Fifty years making ‘beautiful wine in a beautiful place’

In 1973, when Alex and I came to the North Fork looking for a place to plant grapes, make wine and start a family, we wanted to make beautiful...

05.01.2023 News

Peconic Land Trust’s offer to sell 135 acres of ‘future farmland’ on Oregon Road gets multiple bids

The Peconic Land Trust’s offering of four parcels for sale on Oregon Road in Cutchogue as part of its future farmers preservation program has met with success. The offering...

03.17.2023 News

Greenport Village election campaigns head into the final stretch

With the Greenport Village elections scheduled for next Tuesday, March 21, the candidates for mayor and two open trustee seats both faced off in final debates that served to...

12.12.2022 Agriculture

State awards Sidor Farms $400K to expand capacity, pay tribute to potato farming history

A Mattituck farm is among the recipients of more than $10 million in state grant funding recently awarded to Long Island initiatives. Martin Sidor Farms Inc. was awarded a...

10.19.2022 Featured Story

Summer drought hits farm wallets on the North Fork

As the summer cools into autumn, many North Fork farmers are left looking back on a season hotter and drier than expected that, with supply chain issues, drove higher...

10.09.2022 Featured Story

Overtime pay for farm laborers to be phased in over next decade

Farm laborers will be entitled to overtime pay for working more than 40 hours a week in 2032, following an order signed by the state labor commissioner. Labor Commissioner...

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