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7 Hudson Valley Libraries With a Major Focus on Food

1 month ago | l8r.it | Michelle Larkin |Liz Susman Karp

Passionate about both reading and cooking, volunteer Andrea Vladimir kicked off the Cookbook Club to encourage residents to use the library in a different way. She envisioned a salon-like feel to discuss cooking “like Hemingway talking about writing.” Participants have enjoyed cheese tastings and squash making, sessions in knife skills, and a Japanese tea ceremony.
This Immersive Farm Apprenticeship is Training the Next Generation of Farmers

Aug 30, 2024 | modernfarmer.com | Liz Susman Karp

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Spotlight On a Network Aiming to Make Everyone a Food Changemaker

Aug 29, 2024 | modernfarmer.com | Liz Susman Karp

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Clock Tower Grill redefines farm to table by raising livestock

Jul 30, 2024 | timesunion.com | Liz Susman Karp

BREWSTER — It is a difficult enough task to run a successful restaurant. But Cassie and Rich Parente, owners of Clock Tower Grill in Brewster, have an additional challenge: raising livestock for their rustic eatery at their nearby home farm. Most area restaurants do not have their own livestock farm (Michelin-starred Blue Hill at Stone Barns in Westchester County is the only other one nearby).
Dassai Blue Is a Must-Visit Sake Brewery in Hyde Park

Jun 17, 2024 | l8r.it | Liz Susman Karp

A world-renowned sake brewery comes to Hyde Park. The popularity of Japanese culture is booming, and it’s not just sushi, anime, and J-pop music. Interest in sake is on the rise, which is why premium sake brewer Asahi Shuzo decided to open Dassai Blue Sake Brewery (its first brewery outside of Japan) in Hyde Park last September. Just a mile down the road from the Culinary Institute of America (CIA), it is the largest artisanal sake brewery in the U.S.The proximity is deliberate.
Oral History Project Preserves Black and Indigenous Food Traditions

Jun 4, 2024 | civileats.com | Liz Susman Karp

Traveling through Appalachia, Tessa Desmond and her team kept hearing the seed stories.
‘Plasticulture’ on Farms Could Impact Food Safety

Jun 4, 2024 | civileats.bluelena.io | Liz Susman Karp |Grey Moran |Lisa Elaine Held

Plus, an oral history project preserves gardening and food traditions, an AI tool helps cut plastic waste, and more.
The Black Farmers Growing Rice

Apr 8, 2024 | portside.org | Liz Susman Karp

The Black Farmers Growing Rice Published April 8, 2024 In 1926, Konda Mason’s grandfather fled his prosperous Alabama farm in the dark of night, wife and infant son in tow, to escape being lynched by the Klu Klux Klan. He lost everything he had worked for. His story is all too typical of Black farming’s legacy in America, punctuated with painful stories of lost land and livelihoods.
Sequestering Carbon Is Not Just A Science But An Art, Too

Apr 3, 2024 | modernfarmer.com | Liz Susman Karp

Brooke Singer may laugh when she calls herself “a self-taught soil nerd,” but she is quite serious. When Singer looks at soil, she sees something beyond just the microbes, minerals and organic matter that comprise the earth’s most biodiverse ecosystem. She sees something incredible, “teeming with life and diversity,” she says.
Carbon Sponge Hub is growing sorghum to regenerate soil in NY

Apr 1, 2024 | timesunion.com | Liz Susman Karp

When Brooke Singer, an artist whose practice intersects with technology and social change, was exploring soil and humans’ relationship to it, she wondered: What does soil need from us and how can we provide it? To find out, Singer founded Carbon Sponge, which encompasses her art practice, a farmers’ network, scientific research, a cultural exhibit, a how-to guide and a sampling kit.