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Big Ideas Brewing at Essex Farm Institute (The Sun)
Touring Essex Farm (Credit: Pete DeMola via The Sun) Lightning flickered across a bruise-colored sky. Thunder rumbled; the party paused, the air quivered with tension and eventually, Mark Kimball...
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How One Farm Saved Essex, New York (Eating Well)
Mark & Kristin Kimball at Essex Farm, Essex, NY (Credit: Eating Well) On the day in September 2003 when Mark and Kristin Kimball pulled their bicycles off an Amtrak train and wheeled their way into...
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Westport, Essex Farms Recipients of Micro-Grants (The Sun)
Piglets from ECHO Farm, Essex, NY (Credit: ECHO Farm) “A dozen local farms and food producers are the recipients of a new micro-grant program designed to make farms more environmentally friendly while...
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Essex Farm Institute Invites Community to Public Forum on August 29th
Click to enlarge. On August 29th the Essex Farm Institute will host a Public Forum at the Whallonsburg Grange Hall. The forum topic is: “Resilient Farms, Resilient Community: How can agriculture help...
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Expanding Influence Highlights First Essex Farm Forum (Adirondack Daily...
North Country farmers and locals take part in the Essex Farm Institute’s inaugural public forum at the Whallonsburg Grange Hall Monday night. (Credit: Adirondack Daily Enterprise) The Essex Farm...
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Young Farmers Take Root in Essex County, N.Y. (SEVEN DAYS)
Courtney Grimes-Sutton and Asa Thomas-Train (Credit: Molly Walsh) The two are part of the young farmer boomlet in Essex County. While Vermont’s farm economy has blossomed, giving birth to small-scale...
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Grange to Host Lyceum on the 1980s Farm Crisis
Siena Chrisman On Tuesday, March 7 at 7:30pm, the Whallonsburg Grange Hall will present “Raising Less Corn and More Hell: Facing the Crisis in Rural America,” with Siena Chrisman. This is the third...
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Grange to Host Lyceum Lecture on Food Quality
Dan Kittredge On Tuesday, March 14 at 7:30pm, the Whallonsburg Grange Hall will present “From Soil to Plate: Growing (and Eating) Better Food,” with Dan Kittredge. This is the final lecture in the...
View ArticleEssex Farm Institute Plans Carbon Farming Symposium (THE SUN)
The past few years have seen whiplash weather conditions for farmers in the Champlain Valley. Producers have navigated a polar vortex, a super-wet season, and have contended with an extended drought...
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Let’s Help Local Food Systems Come Out Stronger
I hope that you and your family are well and safe during this incredibly difficult time. My name is Kristin Kimball, I am an author and co-owner of a 1,100-acre sustainable, diversified farm in the...
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