Farm Credit East Sponsors Annual Photo Calendar Contest

Last year, Farm Credit received more than 500 entries in its popular photo calendar contest.

According to Farm Credit East’s Triva Haycook and Karen Murphy, “We hope to receive even more entries this year. The annual photo contest allows our customers and friends the chance to see life in the country through each photo’s unique viewpoint. From all entries, we will award a cash prize of $100 each to 14 winners. For the 2011 calendar, that’s one winning shot per month plus winning photos on both the front and back covers. In addition, we feature a selection of outstanding entries across each month’s date page.”

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Farm Credit East Sponsors

Preservation Group Puts New York's Shuttered Sites on "Endangered" List

New York’s parks now have the dubious distinction of a listing on a national preservation group’s register of endangered sites, due to mandatory closings of several dozen parks and historic sites by Governor David Paterson. Karen DeWitt reports.

Wendy Nicholas, with the National Trust for Historic Preservation, says state parks and historic sites have been placed on the list of America’s Most Endangered Historic Places. While the listing refers to all state parks in the nation, Nicholas says it was Governor Paterson’s decision to close 41 parks and 14 historic sites in New York that convinced the group to act.

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New York's Shuttered Sites on "Endangered" List

Fresh From The Farm, Local Growers Are In Fashion

A Farm in Southold. Photos by Joseph Pinciaro.

East End - The fruitful East End, with its rich nutrient growing fields, is once again on the bloom as the growing season approaches. Early arrivals include rhubarb, scallions, leeks, spinach, and asparagus. The next few weeks will see local lettuce followed by peas and the strawberries of early June.

In recent weeks, North Fork farm stands have begun to open their shutters and brush out the cobwebs along Route 25 and Route 48.

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Fresh From The Farm

Growing Vegetables Upside Down

Shawn Verrall & daughter Megan waters upside-down

Growing crops that dangle upside down from homemade or commercially available planters is growing more popular, and its adherents swear they’ll never come back down to earth.

“I’m totally converted,” said Mark McAlpine who began growing tomatoes upside down two years ago because cutworms were ravaging the ones he planted in the ground. He made six planters out of five-gallon plastic buckets, some bought at the Home Depot and some salvaged from the trash of a local winemaker.

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Growing Vegetables Upside Down