Tag: <span>Hudson Valley Farm Hub</span>

Seeding a Revolution: Sovereignty and Connection in the Food System

“Seeds are living things…intimately connected and intertwined with story, and lineage and place and people”  – Rowan White, Sierra Seeds Can you remember the last time you held a seed? We all have ancestors who carried seeds, yet today we have little relationship with the food we eat and the …

Farms, Food Pantries, and Food Policy: Internship Lessons

My internship with Cornell Cooperative Extension Orange County’s (CCEOC) Gleaning Program came to a close at the end of December. In the five months I spent working for the Glean Team, I learned A LOT about the wide variety of fruits and vegetables that grow here in the Hudson Valley. …

Biblical Practice Serves Modern Needs

“When you reap your harvest in your field and have forgotten a sheaf in the field, you shall not go back to get it; it shall be for the alien, for the orphan, and for the widow…” –Deuteronomy 24:19-21 With 40 million Americans currently dealing with food insecurity and 30-40% …

Flowers for insects: fostering synergies between beneficial insects and farms

I have always been enamored with the way farming unites people with the natural world. So it’s fitting that the internship I got to inform my graduate work at Bard College’s Center for Environmental Policy would be on a farm focused on maintaining synergy with nature. Hawthorne Valley Farmscape Ecology Program …