Celebrate Local Food Week
In celebration of New Paltz’s second annual “Local Food Week” (Oct. 1-7) I’d like to acknowledge the importance behind this gathering. Now more than […]
CSA
Creating A Sustainable Living
Along with getting local food to the SUNY New Paltz campus and creating a campus food garden, Students for Sustainable Agriculture has been helping to launch a Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) project called Binnewater Farm Project located in Rosendale, N.Y. The heavy snowfall this past weekend caused the farm to reschedule garlic planting on the site which was supposed to take place with the help of S.F.S.A on Oct. 29. Members of Binnewater Farm Project have leased the 10 acre area from the Legacy Farm Co-housing property, an “intentional […]
Sustainable Solutions: 3/17/11
Sustainable Solution #3: Support the Local Sustainable Agriculture Why is supporting local sustainable agriculture important? “Industrialized agriculture practices degrade the quality of our food, reduces […]