Local Bounty

The aging room at Nettle Meadow Creamery, where a variety of cheeses, including Briar’s Summit, are aged.

Local Bounty: Nettle Meadow Farm sets up shop at historic Hitching Post in Lake Luzerne (with 14 photos)

LAKE LUZERNE – Nettle Meadow Farm & Cheese Company and Animal Sanctuary, tucked into the southern Adirondacks town of Thurman,… Read more »

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Washington County

Local Bounty: Family stays rooted in ag industry with Shushan Valley Hydro Farm in Washington County (with 13 photos)

WASHINGTON COUNTY – No matter the season, things are bustling on Phyllis and Wayne Underwood’s Shushan Valley Hydro Farm. The… Read more »

Owner Mark Sacco with chicken in their fields at Wm. H Buckley Farm in Burnt Hills

Local Bounty: Wm. H. Buckley Farm in Ballston Lake keeps owner Mark Sacco happily busy (with 34 photos)

BALLSTON LAKE – Mark Sacco figures he’s put in about 52,000 hours of work on Wm. H. Buckley Farm since… Read more »

Thomas Schofield leads a 30-minute meals program in the SiCM Community Kitchen

Local Bounty: New SiCM programs bring food from farm to kitchen to table in Schenectady (with 6 photos)

SCHENECTADY – Scents of cinnamon, cumin and chili powder filled Schenectady Inner City Ministry’s Community Kitchen on a gray Wednesday… Read more »

Allie and Bobby Chandler started Allie’s Keto Kitchen shortly before the pandemic began.

Local Bounty: Beef to bacon, mushrooms to meals: Delanson’s Mariaville Farm continues to innovate (with 7 photos)

DELANSON – The Chandler family has been steadily growing Mariaville Farm over the past few decades, branching out from beef… Read more »

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Local Bounty: Food security? We all must do our part

LOCAL BOUNTY – Friday mornings through most of the pandemic started the same way for me. After coffee and a… Read more »

Packages of frozen pizza dough are ready for shipping at Losurdo Foods in Amsterdam.

Local Bounty: Losurdo in Amsterdam churns through 1 million pounds of flour each month, sells product nationwide

AMSTERDAM – There’s a tidy building in the Edson Street Industrial Park that churns out pizza dough. Lots of pizza… Read more »

Dave Webber owner of Higher Ground Distilling Company in Mayfield

Local Bounty: Entrepreneur hoping Mayfield Higher Ground distillery can grow yet remain ‘something I enjoy’

MAYFIELD – Dave Webber drove from Northampton to fix up an empty house in Guilderland last year. It was his… Read more »

The writer’s husband, Dan, searches for potatoes hidden in the dirt.

Local Bounty: A tribute to those starchy treasures, potatoes

LOCAL BOUNTY – We love the tomatoes from our garden. And our fresh broccoli is really good. But what really… Read more »

Death Wish Coffee Co products on display for sale at their retail store location on Broadway in Saratoga Springs

Local Bounty: Saratoga Springs location, expanded product line help Death Wish spread word about the ‘world’s strongest coffee

SARATOGA SPRINGS – Death Wish Coffee gave customers a glimpse into the “world’s strongest coffee” when it debuted its first… Read more »