25th Anniversary Opening of Old McDonald’s Farm to Honor and Benefit Sackets Harbor Fire Department

Old McDonald’s Farm requests the honor of your presence to our 25th Year Anniversary Opening May 1st & 2nd (10-5 pm) to honor our Sackets Harbor Fire Departments.  Admission will be by donation only (what you can afford)!  Food has been donated by local & Watertown businesses.  The Midnight Suns, local musicians will be playing live music! Numerous prizes have been donated and will be raffled each day! All proceeds will be donated to the Sackets Harbor Fire Departments!!

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Farm Benefit

Cows Fed Balanced Diet; No Antibiotics in Milk

I was very concerned to see Jok Church’s comic “Beakman&Jax” in the April 18 News. The information provided on the dairy industry was biased and incorrect. Referring to dairy farms as factories insults the family farmers who take great pride in providing healthy, nutritious milk and dairy products for other families’ tables.

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Cows Fed Balanced Diet

Cornfield’s Tremble Is a Reminder for New York City

Won-Young Kim of Lamont-Doherty, installs seismome

Bob and Ida Motschmann were watching television one February evening in their farmhouse west of Albany when something odd happened.

“The whole house shook,” Mr. Motschmann recalled, a chill wind whipping around his 133-acre farm. “I thought a plane crashed into the cornfield. I jumped up and there was nothing there, and then my daughter ran in and said we’d just had an earthquake.”

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Cornfield’s Tremble

Working to Change the Food System

Project Aims to Educate, Feed a Neighborhood in Need

On a sunny weekday morning, with a half-dozen Buffalo police cars, lights flashing, answering a call just a few blocks away, Jesse Meeder walked around his West Side greenhouse, talking anxiously about his first-ever harvest.

The young urban farmer, seemingly oblivious to the cops down the street, pointed proudly to his watercress, parsley and basil — and the 2,000 tilapia swimming around inside.

Fresh fish being raised in Buffalo's inner city?

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Changing the Food System