12.30.2023 Year in Review 2023 Year in Review 2023: Long Island Wine Country at 50 2023 was a big year for Long Island Wine Country, marking 50 years since the first wine-centric vines were planted — on a plot of fallow potato farmland. Today,...
02.15.2022 News Farm Laborers Wage Board recommends implementing 40 hour overtime threshold over next decade The farm wages overtime threshold could be lowered from 60 to 40 hours a week over the next 10 years, if approved by the state. In a Jan. 28...
02.25.2017 Columns Guest Column: The positive impact of the North Fork’s wine industry The first day in 1973 that my then-husband, Alex, and I arrived on the farm we’d bought in Cutchogue, on Long Island’s North Fork, to plant the region’s first...
03.30.2015 Real Estate Pindar, Duck Walk production won’t be affected by land sale One of Long Island’s pioneering wine families has sold nearly 90 acres of waterfront land in Cutchogue to a mystery buyer — including nearly 30 acres of mature vineyards...
09.01.2014 Agriculture North Fork grapes are in high demand upstate While Long Island’s grapes weathered a harsh winter just fine, the unusually erratic and wet winter months upstate New York experienced have led to extreme losses of grapes across that region, putting the local...
07.12.2014 Columns Column: Tragic marker of time for a wine region The untimely and tragic deaths of Ann Marie and Marco Borghese have me thinking about the passage of time, particularly insofar as the North Fork’s grape-growing/wine industry is concerned....
08.19.2013 News Eight North Fork vineyards make grade for sustainable wine growing Eight North Fork wineries can now add a L.I. Sustainable Wine logo to their 2012 vintages. On Friday, environmental advocacy organization Group for the East End officially endorsed the...
08.04.2013 Columns Column: Straight from the mouths of tourists “We’re gonna go to the wine vineyards,” the young woman said. “Where?” her friend asked. “In, like, North Fork,” she responded. This was an exchange between two stars on...
