2008-11-04 15:25
It was somewhat ironic that just a few days before election day I watched all nine episodes of Jamie Oliver's Fowl Dinners on Chris Consentino's Offal Good blog. (Chris is chef at Incanto in… Read More
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Debunking the myth of organic in favor of local, ecological agriculture.
2008-09-13 11:28
As recent as yesterday I had a conversation with someone discussing the vast opportunities that local farmers had in supplying New York City with more locally grown food. At least as of Sept… Read More
2008-09-12 22:31
OK, folks. If you believe in good, safe, clean food and FARMS, the please sign onto the declaration and help secure a future for our farmers.Thanks, Mike BiltonenPomologist Read More
2008-09-01 16:05
I love food. Who doesn't? I love everything (almost) from snails and caviar to a great cheeseburger and french fries (just not the industrial types). Yet as the Slow Food Nation wraps up in… Read More
2008-08-15 23:16
With the monumental Slow Food Nation event about ready to kick off, I felt compelled to write about the latest eating craze ready to sweep the land. Now, you all have heard about the Atkins… Read More
2008-08-02 21:19
This is likely to be the first year that I will not be actively involved in a fruit harvest of some sort or another. Why? Well, when I started Blue Marble Farms a few years ago I knew the tw… Read More
2008-04-23 16:46
It is rare to hear environmentalists much less politicians talk about the real environmental problem. Instead we hear about mitigate this or mitigate that and little about the fact there are… Read More
2008-03-18 18:21
I just returned from a whirlwind trip to the breadbasket of America only to read on MSNBC that reported cases of foodborne illnesses in leafy greens have been rising over the past 35 years… Read More
2008-02-09 14:19
The following article was written by Karin Ursula Edmondson for the Catskill Mountain Guide magazine (January, 2008). It is posted here with permission from the Catskill Mountain Foundation… Read More
2008-01-20 16:39
In my last blog, I made a statement that for a while local food is going to cost more than your average grocery store alternatives, and it should, because food in general has cost far too li… Read More
2008-01-19 14:00
It probably comes as no surprise, but if you are an average consumer then the cost of your daily diet is more than what you pay at the cash register. Sure the food on your average grocery st… Read More
2007-11-04 19:20
I think I am going to start a new program called "Know Your Steer, or toy maker, or dog food manufacturer, or something." But I am getting not only tired but fearful of what all these recall… Read More
2007-10-26 20:03
I had no idea growing up that I wanted to farm for a living. As a product of suburbia, farming was just about the furthest thing from my mind. I had some idea of what farming was all about… Read More
2007-09-25 11:56
We're right in the middle of New York apple season--my season--and we're once again being smacked in the face by the duplicity of some large food companies and grocery chains, and their comm… Read More
2007-09-16 16:32
Besides the obvious answer to the title query--because we need food--I ask more fundamentally why would anyone in this day and age would want to farm. Recently we've seen yet another measura… Read More
2007-08-18 17:06
The other day I was asked for the umpteenth time whether we practice Integrated Pest Management, or IPM for short. Of course, my short answer was, "Yes." But, as I am apt to do, I lead quick… Read More
2007-07-26 12:04
There are people that say apple growing in the Hudson Valley is dead, or darn near. They cite the growing number of farms transmogrified into McMansions as substantial proof. And, yes, accor… Read More
2007-05-28 16:19
PODCASTS. Technology is a wonderful thing most of the time. In our case, it has allowed to enter a new phase of our marketing campaign through the use of Podcasts and streaming video. As I m… Read More
2007-05-28 13:27
I don’t care what anybody says, the climate is changing. I've experienced it first hand. Of course, it has always changed throughout time. But the past few years have been, well, wacky… Read More
2007-05-09 17:38
An AP report just released revealed that only 1.3% of US food imports are inspected by the FDA. Consider this list of Chinese products detained by the FDA just in the last month: frozen catf… Read More
2007-04-24 15:32
It’s almost spring here in New York’s Hudson Valley. The maples are blooming; the tiny tomato seedlings are thriving (in a greenhouse, of course); and the first hints of green le… Read More
2007-04-13 17:23
Thanks the absolutely fantastic design work of Think Tank 3 (www.thinktank3.com) and tireless development by DesignICU (www.designicu.com), our new web site have finally gone live. Kudos als… Read More
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