09.15.2023 Community Photos: 42nd annual Hallockville Museum Farm Country Fair This year’s Hallockville Country Fair featured more authentic North Fork farm fun than ever before. Patrons of the 42nd annual Hallockville Country Fair, held Sept. 9 and 10, took...
05.07.2023 Editorials Editorial: Two local groups are saving land and history Across the East End, the Peconic Land Trust has preserved more than 14,000 acres of fertile farmland and open space. Our farmland is the rich loam the glaciers left...
08.04.2021 Agriculture County announces $100M initiative for farmland preservation As they celebrate their 20th year farming organic vegetables, fruit and flowers along Sound Avenue in Riverhead, Chris and Eve Kaplan-Walbrecht can’t help but think about the future like...
12.20.2019 Agriculture Four more North Fork farms sold to Stefan Soloviev Stefan Soloviev, the East Hampton man who has been buying North Fork farmland for the past several years, recently bought three large farm parcels along Route 25 in Jamesport...
04.15.2018 Columns Column: Victory for farmland preservation in Suffolk Suffolk County’s visionary farmland preservation program has just achieved a triumph. The state’s Appellate Division last month rejected a ruling by a state Supreme Court justice in 2016 that...
04.10.2018 Government Hotel owners, farmers at odds over proposed zoning change A proposed expansion of Hotel Indigo on West Main Street may be scaled back if the Town Board approves a proposal to undo a change to the town zoning...
07.29.2016 Agriculture Changing agriculture industry leading to more parcels for sale While much of Suffolk County abandoned its agricultural heritage in the 20th century, portions of the North Fork’s two towns still serve as reminders of that way of life.
05.12.2014 Environment Federal funds sought to help farmers protect bays, Sound Turn the Peconic Estuary and Long Island Sound into a “critical conservation” area and free up federal funds for local farmers to protect water quality? It’s a “no-brainer,” North...