Start-up farming operation would erect seven greenhouses over 147 acres.
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Fruition Seeds focuses on locally adapted food and flowers
Petra Page-Mann, co-owner of the organic seed packet company Fruition Seeds, has saved seeds since she was a child, working alongside her father in his garden in Naples. Saving seeds “was just something we did every year, and I didn’t think much of it,” she says. Almost two decades later, she realized it was not […]
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Towns focus on farmland
In Chili, nearly as much land is devoted to agriculture as is used for housing. And Wheatland, Chili’s neighbor to the south, actually has more farmland than residential acreage. Elected officials in the two western Monroe County communities have teamed up and are in the early stages of developing a plan to preserve their farmland. […]
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Let them eat snow
On the Sunday before Christmas, the stalls at the Long Season Market in Brighton are heaped with fresh produce and the aisles are crowded with self-described locavores who are eager to take it home with them. There are beets that are still icy cold and wet to the touch, alongside parsnips, turnips, a few radishes, […]
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CSAs: Choosing the food less traveled
While popular culture isn’t exactly offering up healthy-life-choice alternatives, the past decade or so has seen increased public discussion surrounding our impending dietary doom. Films like Robert Kenner’s "Food, Inc." and literature by Michael Pollan and Barbara Kingsolver warn us that, it may not be today, it may not be tomorrow, but the end of […]
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Slapping the hands that feed us
There’s a beauty and grace to picking cabbage. On a Brockport farm on a sunny June morning, men and machine move synchronously to harvest the crop. The pickers, three men ranging in age from early 30s to mid-40s, are bent over, slowly walking backward as a tractor continually pushes a large crate toward them. […]
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Hooked on organics
Genesee County’s northern tier, a zone of rich soils well-positioned between the Lake Ontario plains and the hill country to the south, has that touch of bigness. Open fields stretch hundreds or thousands of yards back from the road. A Montana-style “Big Sky” draws the eyes to infinity. “Big” weather rolls in day and night, […]
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Organics and the law: the purity pureed
Many people don’t care what goes in one end of the hen or out the other. But some recent legislative chickenshit should make everyone pay attention. Earlier this month the US Congress passed a nearly $400 billion omnibus spending bill. The measure funded vital federal programs from A-Z, but in line with past practice, […]
