Harvesting Opportunities in New York, November 20, Albany The second annual Harvesting Opportunities in New York: Growing Local Food Economies and Protecting Farmland conference will be held on November 20 in Albany. The business of growing and selling food is a major contributor to New York’s economy. Farms annually sell billions of dollars in products [...]
New Bill Introduced to Help Beginning Farmers Find Land Finding new ways to help farmers, particularly beginning farmers, find a farm at an affordable price was a priority issue at American Farmland Trust’s No Farms No Food Rally. Assemblyman Bill Magee, Chair of the Assembly Agriculture Committee and Senator Patty Ritchie, Chair of the Senate [...]
American Farmland Trust and Land for Good’sFarmland Advisors program is educating agriculture service providers to help the next generation of farmers access land and farm families facilitate the transfer farms to the next generation. The program started in February with its first webinar for the program’s 80 participants, from New York and New England. The [...]
Last week American Farmland Trust’s New York State Director David Haight testified before the state’s Assembly Standing Committee on Agriculture about the land access challenges facing the next generation of farmers and what American Farmland Trust is doing to help. “We are working hard to help senior farmers transfer their farms to the next generation [...]
Anthony Mecca is a soft-spoken, 29-year-old farmer who operates Great Song Farm, in the Town of Red Hook, located in the mid-Hudson Valley’s Dutchess County.Great Song Farm is a fruit and vegetable CSA with 90 members.Mecca is one of a growing number of young people who, having grown up isolated from agriculture, are launching careers as [...]
