11.14.2023 Agriculture After wet weekends, the apple farmers are hurting In the lower section of an old barn at Wickham’s Fruit Farm in Cutchogue, apple farmers store crates overflowing with apples in a cooler. On a fall morning last...
06.12.2013 Food and Drink Rain threatens local strawberry crop A little — OK, a lot — of rain put a damper on the much anticipated North Fork strawberry season now underway. Local farm stands said they’re pressing on...