05.22.2013 News Town Board hires expert to lure FAA to Calverton The Riverhead Town Board heard opposition from the farm community to a proposed change to require stricter regulations on excavating land for agriculture during a public hearing tonight. Farmers...
05.20.2013 News North Forkers preparing for boxwood blight Landscapers, nursery owners and plant scientists are on the lookout for a new fungus that attacks one of Long Island’s most popular plants: the boxwood. The boxwood blight has...
03.17.2013 News Farm Bureau hosts annual ‘Coffee with the Congressman’ event Congressman Tim Bishop and the Long Island Farm Bureau hosted the annual farmers ‘Coffee with the Congressman’ at farm bureau headquarters on Edwards Avenue in Calverton Saturday morning. The annual...
03.09.2013 News Penguin Books CEO pursuing his agrarian dream All Penguin Group CEO David Shanks ever wanted was to have a small area on his property that captured enough sunlight to grow roses and tomatoes. About a year...
03.04.2013 News Agri-Women coming back to Riverhead March 21 New York Agri-Women, the state chapter of a national organization devoted to the interests of women farmers, is again returning to Riverhead Town this spring, after holding its annual...
12.29.2012 News Farmland owner wants to store wood chips without permit A Sound Avenue farm owner is seeking permission from the Riverhead Town Board to import between 125,000 and 150,000 cubic yards of wood chips in order to further shred...
11.03.2012 Business Produce farmers say Sandy’s timing let them dodge disaster Hurricane Sandy may have brought historic flooding and severe winds to the East End earlier this week, but local produce farmers say the storm’s timing was about as good...
10.23.2012 News Million dollars worth of fencing to keep deer out East End farmers gathered in East Marion Monday with Senator Ken LaValle to celebrate $1 million that was earmarked to allow 69 Suffolk County farmers to install about 180,000...