WANDERLUST DOESN’T HAVE TO INVOLVE expensive plane tickets, heavy traffic, or even packing a suitcase. Sometimes, the best adventures begin in your own backyard. The Hudson Valley’s longest wine trail—the
IN BEACON, 47 PERCENT of the students enrolled in the city’s six schools are eligible for reduced-price or free meals. According to a 2010 national Feeding America study, 76 percent
THE MID HUDSON MYCOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION is having boozy fun with fungus, and the club will offer a special beer-making workshop on May 2 using locally foraged mushrooms. You might call
ON SATURDAY, JULY 18, the crowd-pleasing ice cream makers at Jane’s Ice Cream, in Kingston, will celebrate their thirtieth anniversary by serving a commemorative “Birthday Bash” flavor at the Kingston
YOU MAY SPOT A SURPRISING “adult” dessert on more menus around the region this summer. A beer float is a grown-up twist on the traditional summer classic—smooth ice cream (the
MAGGIE AND BOB GEPHARD, “outstanding community benefactors,” who for the past 25 years have chaired the International Wine Showcase & Auction benefit for Greystone Programs, raising more than $1 million
SPROUT CREEK FARM, for earning a 2014 Good Food Award for Madeleine, a raw goats’ milk cheese—the only New York cheese to be awarded in the national competition, which recognizes
ONCE A SPECIALTY ITEM DESTINED for high-end desserts, duck eggs have gone mainstream. Duck egg sales have spiked recently and they’re appearing more frequently on menus throughout the Hudson Valley.
A WAREHOUSE ON LIBERTY STREET in Newburgh is an unlikely site for a shrimp farm. ECO Shrimp Garden, opened in August, offers Hudson Valley—grown shrimp. The Brazilian-born Jean Claude Frajmund
HERE IN THE HUDSON VALLEY and across the country, thousands of vacant city lots, once breeding grounds for crime or illegal dumping sites, are being reclaimed by a new breed:
“THERE’S A LOT OF DEMAND for farm-fresh and local products and food, but not a great way for a wholesale buyer to order from these farms,” says David Ross, vice
IN 2004, JOSHUA AND JESSICA APPLESTONE opened Fleisher’s Grass-fed & Organic Meats in Kingston. Their aim was to provide locals (and themselves) with sustainable meat, as Jessica said at the
WHEN TOPPINGS FROZEN YOGURT OPENED a second shop in Wappingers Falls near Dutchess Stadium this summer, the family-run business raised the ante in the frozen-yogurt-in-a-cup-with-goodies-on-top dessert race with its new
A CREW OF BEACON TEENAGERS kept busy throughout the summer tending their Common Greens Garden, an in-town garden site donated by Tito Santana Taqueria. The harvested vegetables go to Common
A NEW SIGN CALLS OUT TO DRIVERS on Rt. 44/55 in Modena: BARBEQUE. JOHN FAZIO FARM MARKET and the words RIBS. DUCK. CHICKEN. RABBIT hover near a row of flames.
INNOVATIVE PARTNERSHIPS AMONG HUDSON VALLEY brewers and distillers are producing some interesting and delicious new products. Black Dirt Distillery is teaming with Doc’s Draft Hard Cider (both in Warwick) on a new
IF A BIRD IN THE HAND IS worth two in the bush, what’s a striped bass worth? Though the Hudson’s most popular fish isn’t officially endangered (or even threatened), its
TO WALK GEOFF THOMPSON’S APPLE orchards with him is to witness a man truly enamored with his farm. To hear him discuss the finer points of the conical, russeted Hudson’s Golden Gem
Hudson Valley Restaurant Week is back this October 28 to November 10!
