07.23.2017 Columns Suffolk Closeup: Saving Suffolk’s farms “America has been losing over 40 acres of farmland every hour to development,” said the letter I recently received from the American Farmland Trust. “This land — the most...
12.19.2016 News Climate change creating new challenges for local farmers Local growers and farmers say climate change is creating new challenges, with extreme weather conditions, sudden storms, rising temperatures and drought making it even more difficult to cope with...
02.09.2016 News With Greenport man at the helm, oyster growers unite “Greenport, like towns on Staten Island, prospered from the oyster.” So wrote John Kochiss, author of “Oystering from New York to Boston,” in 1973, pointing back to the...
08.14.2015 News Little impact seen from DEC deer kill regs Hunters in the area will have to wait longer than usual to begin going after trophy bucks once the bowhunting season begins in October. As part of an effort...
08.29.2014 Government With $225K to spend, Southold cull kills 192 deer Nearly six months after a controversial deer cull kicked off on farms across the East End, the results are finally in. And to the group that led the effort,...