The markets have become a mecca for those in search of everything from salts and soaps, to tender leather goods, to high-touch/low-tech household decor.
Continue readingIn the Lyme Light
Lying in the fetal position on a bed, sitting shirtless facing away from the camera, propped up nude atop a stool—photographer Jiatong Lu captures the subjects of her series Nowhere Land.
Continue readingWild Autumn Eats with Chef James O’Neill
While O’Neill holds certification for identifying mushrooms in New York State, he’s gained his particular knowledge of foraging through a career that’s taken him from the forest to the kitchen and back again.
Continue readingBaker Island Foods – Sweets Without Wheats
“Can a Cookie Change the World?” That’s the tagline for Baker Island Foods, Anna Hall’s specialty food company.
Continue readingSkyRise Farm
The 50 acres that SkyRise occupies is a working farm based in regenerative practices.
Continue readingFoxtrot Farm & Flowers
It’s not easy to reach Kate Farrar during the growing season. Most days she’s out of the house by 6 am, tending to the numerous beds at Foxtrot Farm & Flowers in Stanfordville.
Continue readingThistle Pass Farm
Now in its second year, Thistle Pass is flourishing; a successful plant sale in the spring, and local venues now offering its produce on their menus have left Brown “ecstatic and grateful.”
Continue readingHillrock Estate Distillery
From their home on a bucolic piece of land high above the village of Ancram, Jeff Baker and Cathy Franklin helm one of the country’s foremost craft distilleries.
Continue readingIn The Grove
Normally I don’t get too excited about eating at golf clubs. Country club food, as a general rule, tends to be reminiscent of the nursery, with a bland emphasis on burgers and equally unexotic fare. That, however, is not the case at The Grove Restaurant and Bar at the Red Hook Golf Club, a semi-private club near Hyde Park.
Continue readingMonica Gerard-Sharp
Gerard-Sharp is best described as a force of nature, with a storybook life complete with adversity, determination, creativity, and a bona fide Persian prince, her husband Ali Wambold.
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