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Culinary paradise found: Adams Fairacre Farms in the town of Ulster (Kingston)
02/15/2012
KINGSTON, NY — Adams in Kingston was recently featured on the Daily Freeman website. A news clip and photos are available on their website.
“Whether it’s strawberries in the spring, corn in the summer or apples in the fall, Adams Fairacre Farms has the largest selection of hand-selected produce anywhere.”
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Joining the Cause: Toy Drive for Astor Services for Children and Families
RHINEBECK, NY — Adams Fairacre Farms had the pleasure of being a part of the toy drive to benefit Astor Services for Children and Families.
During the month of December, the Young Professionals Committee of Hudson Valley helped to collect toys “ranging from remote-controlled cars, board games, stuffed animals, art supplies and much more thanks to the generosity of chamber members and the community.”
Adams donated the van that was used to deliver the nearly 400 toys to Astor for Christmas.
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Adams Own HR Director, Gaye Mallet, Featured
POUGHKEEPSIE, NY — Adams own HR Director, Gaye Mallet, was recently featured on the Westfair Online website. In addition to being Adams Fairacre Farms HR Director, Mallet is currently the Chairperson of the Dutchess County Regional Chamber of Commerce, as well as an executive committee member for the Mid-Hudson Civic Center.
“Adams offered Mallet a position with the family owned company 14 years ago, accepting it was a decision she says was the best move she ever made. ‘I’ve seen Adams grow and am working with an amazing family. As a result of its growth, it’s more important than ever to keep abreast of employment law.’”
“When she’s not up to her neck in employer-employee relations or keeping abreast of chamber events, Mallet is working on the executive committee for the Mid-Hudson Civic Center, which recently took over the defunct Ice Time in Newburgh.”
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Think Local campaign boosting the Hudson Valley food chain
DUTCHESS COUNTY, N.Y. — Poughkeepsie’s Sprout Creek Farm has 200 acres of free ranging animals, producing award winning cheeses. They’ve gotten a boost from Adams Fairacre Farms who stocks their product for their locally minded customers.
“Quantities doubling, tripling in some cases, because, of course, consumers buying from them are catching onto that trend as well,” said cheese maker Colin McGrath of Sprout Creek Farm.
“We love our local farmers because we are getting the best quality and the freshest ingredients as we need it, right to the store,” said Adams Fairacre Farms cheese associate Debbie Decker.
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Planting Trees and Shrubs in the Fall
I had the niftiest graduate research project. The public works crew and I planted 150 trees around the city of Ithaca, New York. We planted half of them in spring, half in fall. We chose three tree species (an oak, hackberry, and American hophornbeam) that have historically been described as “hard to transplant” or “fall transplant hazards.”
Measurements over many subsequent years showed that the ones dug from the field nursery and planted—i.e., transplanted—in fall did just as well as the ones transplanted in spring, defying nursery lore about the perils of fall transplanting—at least for these three species. For a wide range of species, my adviser had observed anecdotally in her decades of planting trees in Ithaca that fall transplanting was just fine.
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