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Open farm day in Madison County allows the public to visit farms and see where their food comes from. Read more here.
Local farm breweries are turning to locally grown hops to make their beers from Hops farmer, Chad Meigs. Read more here.
ON Farm Fest in Onondaga county showcases technology that farmers are using to make their jobs easier but not all farmers think so. Read more here.
Israel based Agri-tech company, Soos, works with a CNY farmer to test their technology to save male chicks. Read more here.
Mental health among farmers is a growing concern as they are one and a half times more likely to commit suicide. Farmer Doreen Barker relies on a community group she created NY Farm Women, for support. Read more here.
Isir Farah opened Isir's Somali cuisine in Syracuse where she serves traditional Somalian food. Read about her restaurant and two other new spots.
Feed Our Vets is a food bank for veterans in NY Mills. They have fed thousands of veterans this year alone. Read more here.
Local farm, Salt City Harvest farm, partners with R.I.S.E. to provide land to refugees who want to grow and produce their own food. Read more here.
The average age of the American farmer is 57.5 years old so the New York State Fair held a day where young people could explore careers in agriculture. Read more here.
With the war in Ukraine, the price of sunflower seed oil has rapidly increased as they are the world's largest exporter of the product. However, there is a company in CNY making the oil from locally grown sunflowers. Read more here.
With the Avian flu killing many birds, the price of holiday turkeys will increase. Read more here.
Opened by cousins, Sam Deb and Abdel Mado, the Deli @ 700 has a large menu with a variety of things such as pizza, breakfast sandwiches, and more. Read about their restaurant and two other new spots.
Ethan Tyo grows a Three Sisters garden at the community garden on Syracuse University's campus. The garden is a traditional indigenous way of growing corn, squash, and beans.
Food prices are up this year but so are the cost of inputs for farmers. Read more here.
Wagner vineyards has been growing and making Riesling for many years in the Finger Lakes region. Read how they do it here.
A farmer competing in the farmer olympics throws a hay bale during Empire Farm Days.
Le Melange opened their doors in Syracuse in October 2022. Read about their restaurant and two other new spots.
A drought was present throughout all of New York state this past summer. Read how it impacted a local dairy farmer.