2020 Cultivators

When Pika Roels brought her quiches to potluck dinners they’d be gone in minutes.

Atina Foods in Catskill, is a small but growing business using locally grown ingredients to make traditional and original spins on South Indian condiments.

Hudson Valley Malt in Germantown uses grain from local farms and turns it into malt for beer production and distilling.

Screamin’ Onionz, from Aha! American Healthy Appetite, is the spicy brainchild of founder Richard Romano.

How to support local Agriculture and food producers during the COVID-19 Pandemic

Catskill Brewery was founded by Randy Lewis, Ramsay Adams, and Kirt Gunn in Livingston Manor, New York, a hamlet in Sullivan County known as the birthplace of dry fly-fishing and home of the Catskill Fly Fishing Center and Museum.

Life is sweet for Kristin Nelson, current HVADC Farm and Food Funding Accelerator (FFFA) Peer and owner of The Ardent Homesteader in Arden, New York.

While Governor’s Cuomo’s March 20 Executive Order classified farms, food and beverage manufactures, agri-business, operations responsible for animal health, and related support industries as ‘essential’ and permitted to continue to operate,

Motivated by the sense of fulfillment from working in agriculture, HVADC Board Chair Mark Doyle is currently General Manager for Fishkill Farms, a diverse, family-owned, Pick-Your-Own fruit and vegetable farm in Dutchess County.

HVADC client, Arrowood Farm Brewery in Accord, Ulster County, is known for keeping it local – really local.

Laughing Earth Farm in Rensselaer County’s Arcadian hamlet of Cropseyville, can be found on the New York State Register of Historic Places dating back to early the1700s, originally owned by the Morrison family.

New York State Agriculture Commissioner Richard A. Ball announced that nearly $30 million had been awarded to support the growth of New York’s farms and food beverage industries in early December

Its charter may date back to 1913, but Jeff Bank is an example of progressive community banking at its best.

HVADC Farm and Food Funding Accelerator (FFFA) participant Great Song Farm is a diverse community farm on 90 acres of sprawling Northern Dutchess land, with flower and vegetable crops covering one and a half acres leaving the rest to be comprised of cedar and hardwood forest, wetlands, and rolling green pastures.

The second round of NYS Grown & Certified (G&C) Grants in the Capital District have been awarded through the program administrated by HVADC and Hudson Mohawk Resource Conservation and Development Council, Inc., (HMRC&D).

You are a new, Poughkeepsie-based food entrepreneur just renting kitchen space, but with dreams of owning your own restaurant someday.

Vital Eats in Saratoga Springs creates award-winning, handcrafted sauces, condiments, spices and gourmet fare using only plant-based ingredients.

“I grew up in the suburbs of southern California and wasn’t around farming,” said Shereen Alinaghian, owner of Ardith Mae Farmstead Goat Cheese and a recent HVADC Farm and Food Funding Accelerator program (FFFA) graduate.

COVID-19 has changed the way every farmer does business, but each farm faces unique challenges, and many been coming up with unique solutions to meet the challenges of the pandemic.

Ann Finnegan has served as a HVADC Board Member for five years.