This article appeared in the September/October 2014 issue of Organic Hudson Valley. A direct link can be found under Links to Articles. When autumn comes around, there is nothing that beats that first taste of a fresh, crisp apple from a local orchard. The Hudson Valley is known for its apple orchards and all the…
This article appeared in the May 2014 issue of Organic Hudson Valley. (A direct link can be found under Links to Articles.) Sprout Creek Farm has roots in teaching that go back to its inception in 1982, when it was founded on the campus of a school. Since then, it has changed its location…
This article appeared in the May 2014 issue of Organic Hudson Valley. (A direct link can be found under Links to Articles). John Ponte got involved with the Tunnels to Towers Foundation after reading an article in a local newspaper about Brendan Marrocco, who, like Ponte, is from Staten Island. Marrocco was the first…
This article appeared in the May 2014 issue of Organic Hudson Valley. (A direct link can be found under Links to Articles). Judi Esmond has loved art ever since she was a child. She was introduced to her first pottery wheel by her father at the age of six, and learned more about pottery…
This article appeared in the May 2014 issue of Organic Hudson Valley. (A direct link is under Links to Articles). The latest project for Rick Alfandre, the owner of Alfandre Architecture and a proponent of construction using green technology, is a new green office building located in New Paltz that will be 5400 square…
This articles appeared in the April 2014 issue of Organic Hudson Valley. (A direct link to the article can be found under Links to Articles). Iris York started taking photographs of nature when she traveled, showing them off to her friends and family. She didn’t begin with any intentions of doing it professionally, but…
This article appeared in the March 2014 issue of Organic Hudson Valley. A direct link can be found under Links to Articles. Christina Varga can’t imagine not being an artist. Even when people called her “no professional” and nothing “more than a Sunday painter” she was not discouraged because she knew she was an artist. …
This article appeared in the March 2013 issue of Organic Hudson Valley. A direct link can be found under Links to Articles. Repurposed Palettes The Green Palette began with an idea to recycle Christmas trees. Marcus Valle had been doing Christmas decorating for five years and had a client that was throwing away 50 synthetic…
This article appeared in the March 2014 issue of Organic Hudson Valley. The Hawthorne Valley Association (HVA) was formed in 1972 by what Karen Preuss, the marketing director for HVA, described as “a few pioneering educators and farmers.” The web site sums up the purpose of the HVA nicely, describing the association as, “producing high…
This article appeared in the January/February 2014 issue of Organic Hudson Valley. (A direct link in under Links to Articles). The Hudson Valley was a major source of grapes for the northeastern region of the United States during the nineteenth century, and Whitecliff Vineyard & Winery in Gardiner, New York, run by Yancey Stanforth-Migliore…
Karen Fredrickson 