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02.15.2024 Environment

East End environmental roundtable meets in Riverhead

For at least the 20th time — no one present seemed to know just when it all began — state legislators convened for an environmental roundtable in Riverhead last...

02.02.2024 Agriculture

Closing of Satur Farms’ packaging plant another sign of challenges facing North Fork farmers

More than 25 years ago, Paulette Satur and her husband, Eberhard Muller, an acclaimed chef at iconic Manhattan restaurants like Le Bernardin and Lutece, bought an 18-acre farm in...

11.18.2023 Environment

Land Trust preserves Broad Cove

Almost a century ago, a 100-acre property along Hubbard Avenue in Aquebogue was home to the Broad Cove duck farm on Flanders Bay. When that business was no longer...

06.20.2023 Outdoors

Peconic Land Trust expanding trail network into Riverhead

Peconic Land Trust’s network of trails is spreading into Riverhead Town this year. Last month, the 40-year-old nonprofit dedicated to protecting land received a $61,200 stewardship and resource management...

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...

03.15.2023 News

Proposed Wading River development may be preserved

The Central Square application on Route 25A in Wading River appears to be headed for preservation and not development, as was originally planned. Officials say the front half of...

12.22.2022 Environment

After more than three decades in preservation, Tim Caufield retires from Peconic Land Trust

Although Orient resident Timothy Caufield came to work with the Peconic Land Trust purely by chance — through a friend of its president, John Halsey — he fit in...

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