Cultivadores 2019

Mark Bascom and Lindsay Fisk met half a world away in the rain forests of Costa Rica tracking monkeys while young and still in college, and are now the sole proprietors farming Owl Wood Farm.

The proprietors of Farmer and Baker in Middletown, Cristina and Carlos Garcia, are the kind of couple that likes to do everything together, but differently.

Even through the sketchy month of March, most days, HVADC Deputy Director Mary Ann was on the road, traveling throughout the seven counties covered by HVADC initiatives

The National Farm Viability Conference is a biennial conference that focuses on the issues farmers are most concerned with today

Berle Farm has a two-decades-long history of farming in Rensselaer County’s quiet, bucolic green hills of Hoosick.

New York Grown Food for New York Kids (NYGFFNYK) is a coalition of nearly 70 organizations and stakeholders working together to improve access to fresh, healthy, local food for students in K-12 schools.

Noble’s former career as a pharmaceutical sales person was boosted by pie, enticing doctor offices to accept her friendly sales call with a fresh baked pie in hand.

Rebecca Shim and her husband Ray have been getting a lot more bee stings since they moved to the Catskills.

Two alumni of the Hudson Valley AgriBusiness Development Corporation’s (HVADC) Farm and Food Accelerator program inaugural class were awarded first and second places in the SUNY Adirondack’s inaugural Business Plan Competition, February 7.

Thunder View Farms of Grahamsville in Sullivan County was awarded the National Cattlemen’s Beef Association (NCBA) Environmental Stewardship Award for 2018.

In 2013, every region in New York published a plan to guide carbon reduction and economic development.

Fourth-generation beef farmer Jason Kading was raised on a beef farm and even bought his first cow in the late 90s, at age 12 years old.

HVADC has been named as a designated lender to help administer a recently established $10 million fund from New York State that will be available to assist local agribusinesses have easier access to capital.

What do Eleanor Roosevelt, Dolce Vita shoes and an ice cream shop have in common…? Van Lamprou.

In 1937 in Bloomington, Illinois, Delmar Duane Darrah bought a series of farms in a circle, so that bad weather affecting some, would not affect all.

Seven counties is a lot to cover. Covering Dutchess, Columbia, Rensselaer, Washington, Orange, Sullivan and Ulster counties, HVADC has that regional reach

The birth story of HVADC client Noble Pies in Orange County may be rooted in the humble beginnings of a once-struggling horse boarding farm

The crop diversity found within the Hudson Valley is just as rich as its ethnic diversity and history of cultivating fruit and vegetables originating from other parts of the world

In May, Karianna Haasch hung her new Local Artisan Bakery sign above her new bakery in midtown Kingston; serious about every word read in the sign.

Since an interest in food and its production historically begins at home, the food and agriculture industry is filled with family-owned businesses and complex partnerships in various configurations.