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  • Head, Hands and Heart: Hidden Pearls Farm & Healing Center

    I was so grateful to spend a summer afternoon sitting with Brett Grant in his farmhouse kitchen, learning about the spectacular emergence of his dream, and to share his story with all of you. Brett Grant first heard whisperings of a calling toward growing food, community and healing back in his childhood on a trip…

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  • Networks of Support Help Farmers Achieve Land Access in New York State

    Land access models – based on relationships, collective and comprehensive learning, and the great effort of individuals – provide a roadmap for designing public policy, new farm incubator programs, technical assistance, and education programming.   Land access is one of the biggest challenges for those who dream of starting a life in farming or expanding…

  • Yates Farm Safety Day

    The Yates Farm Safety Day is a FREE and fun day for both children and adults to learn about potential hazards on a farm. It is open to ALL farm families, hired help, neighbors and other interested folks! Farm Safety is for all ages. Various safety topics with hands-on activities and demonstrations will be presented…

  • Halal Pastures: Where Faith “Meats” Family Farming

    A Q&A with the owners of Halal Pastures farm, an organic halal family farm in nearby Rock Tavern, NY. People are hungry, for good, responsibly raised food. I was hungry, for a connection to land that fed my spirit and my body. So, two years ago, I made my home in Chester, NY, a small town…

  • Slaughter Daughter

    My father is a butcher. He doesn’t have a potbelly or drape strings of sausages from his hands. He doesn’t have a mustache or wear one of those little straw hats, either. He does boast that he could skin a cow at the age of 10, can strip the meat from a carcass down to…

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