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 [...]
Ever hear the saying–“Our kids don’t know where their food comes from, they think it comes from the grocery store?” Today, though more people shop at farmers markets, they still don’t know where their food comes from – local farmland. And, we are losing farmland fast! In New York we have lost 4,500 farms, since [...]
Governor Andrew Cuomo signed the 2013-14 State Budget yesterday at the University at Buffalo. The budget passed both houses of the New York State Legislature on March 29. The budget provides $13 million, an increase of $1 million, for the state’s Farmland Protection Program, which funds the purchase of agricultural conservation easements on farmland and [...]
The No Farms No Food Rally took place during heated budget negotiations between Governor Cuomo and the Legislature. Sixteen lobby teams met with over seventy state legislators. “We were joined by young farmers, mature farmers, land trusts and conservation organizations, hunger relief and public health advocates and local food groups to tell our elected officials [...]
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 [...]
