04.01.2015 Agriculture As cold weather persists, farmers play the waiting game In a drastic change to their normal routines, North Fork farmers say they aren’t doing much these days. By the time St. Patrick Day rolls around, Bayview Farm and...
03.13.2015 Agriculture Fewer sales, more variety: Suffolk surpassed by dairy-heavy counties A Greek yogurt boom has brought herculean increases in sales to a couple of upstate counties in recent years, knocking Suffolk County out of its long-coveted spot as New...
08.30.2014 Business Tobacco farm marks first here since Revolution Michael Chuisano retired at age 54 from a career as the owner of a glass business in New York City. But that doesn’t mean he’s done working. In...
07.30.2014 Agriculture Study: Price of Southold farmland jumps slightly in past decade The increase in the value of North Fork farmland pales in comparison to the rise in value of South Fork farmland over the past decade, according to a market...
07.27.2014 Agriculture Tiny microgreen veggies pack a mighty tasty punch Picture a full garden’s worth of flavors: sweet corn, beets, sweet peas, arugula, fresh basil and even crisp green apples. Now picture all of those varieties tiny enough to...
07.27.2014 Agriculture These young farmers will eat — and plant — their veggies “Eat your vegetables.” The phrase may generate a certain queasy feeling in your stomach and an innate desire to defy your mother. Uttered sternly by countless moms over the...
07.01.2014 Agriculture Do you have local corn? Depends who you ask North Fork growers say they are in a race against time and temperature, hoping they will be able to harvest enough local sweet corn to fill farm stand shelves...
06.28.2014 Environment How nitrogen finds its way into surface water The Nature Conservancy released a report last week on the various ways nitrogen finds its way from the air and land and into surface waters throughout the Peconic Estuary....
06.22.2014 Environment Farmer Phil Schmitt details conservation efforts at his Riverhead farm Phil Schmitt of Schmitt Family Farms in Riverhead welcomed farming support representatives from the New York City watershed region last week to share some of the conservation practices being...
05.30.2014 Agriculture Survey says: Suffolk County farms taking larger loss As production costs for Suffolk County’s farmers rise, the return they receive on that investment is going down, painting a “gloomy” picture for the future of Long Island’s farm...