Four Kune Kune pigs sat squealing in a small fenced enclosure as Marathon students as Faith Baker told the pigs’ story. “The Kune Kune are natural grazers,” said Baker, a …
With the help of state grants, three Cortland County farmers hope to reduce their environmental effect and prepare for increasingly turbulent weather driven by climate change. Gov. Kathy …
People told Cortland County Legislator Linda Jones recently they worried that trees marked with paint at Dwyer Memorial Park in Little York were destined for removal. They are. But there's …
Seven DeRuyter Middle School sixth-graders stood in a row Friday morning, their right feet on a long 4- by 4-inch wide wooden post, their left feet on a similar post parallel to the first. They …
They came to fight. They came dressed as woodchucks. Thirty years later, the people who stopped the state and federal governments from placing a low-level radioactive waste facility in Taylor …
Most of this summer has been hot and dry and, with that type of weather, the majority of crops are being harvested now. Agricultural fields tend to look barren, with plenty of bare soil and crop …
While a state proposal moves forward to lower the threshold at which farmers must pay overtime to workers, the labor market has already been pressuring the industry to move in that direction, a …
A spike in milk prices paid to farmers in the past year — after years of depressed payments — is allowing them to pay off debt from the lean times, catch up on deferred maintenance and …
Employees of Sherman Farm in Dryden were gathering freshly cut hay Thursday afternoon in a field off Route 13. It was a far cry from a month ago when abnormally dry weather rendered hay useless …
Gus Barn at Lime Hollow Nature Center in Cortlandville will reopen next month as BOCES classroom space following a nearly four-month renovation funded, in part, with $100,000 in American Rescue Plan …
They’re in Onondaga County. And Tompkins. Broome, too. And if the state has called for the immediate stomping of any Spotted Lanternfly you might encounter, they’re not in Cortland County – yet.
Some kids spend summer vacation at the park, or swimming, or vegetating in front of the video game device trying to forget a year’s worth of learning. Christopher Slade spent his summer in the …
Robert “Bobcat” Bonagura held his daughter Tuesday as he surveyed the fields of Main Street Farms, looking over some of the dried out vegetable plants on the field as tractors worked …
Farmers market farmers face enough challenges: Varmints got Joan Franklin’s first broccoli crop this year; she missed a week of picking and lost hundreds of pounds of summer and pattypan …
Fred Forbes Sr. drove his gray Dodge pickup truck up a Cortlandville hill, past fields of soybeans and corn, climbing as the path dissolved from asphalt to dirt, then nothing more than …
Branden Brown, the owner of Trinity Valley Dairy in Homer, is considering providing his dairy products to children at schools in Cortland County to support a farm-to-school program. “I mean, …
