Cheese tour and wild chickens
By Melissa Hart
October 15, 2019
A classic Adirondack outing
Melissa Hart
Melissa is a journalist with experience as a reporter and editor, combined with work for nonprofits. As the Explorer's digital editor, she serves as editor of Adirondack Almanack.(com) and helps manage the Explorer's website. When not online, she enjoys hiking, camping and other outdoors activities, and spending time with her husband, their twin daughters, and rescue animals -- two dogs and two cats. Sign up for Melissa’s newsletter
Good Husbandry
By Melissa Hart
October 15, 2019
New memoir by Kristin Kimball picks up where ‘The Dirty Life’ left off The new book by Kristin Kimball of Essex Farm comes out today and I just received my copy in the mail. Looking forward to reading this! Let me know: Have you read “The Dirty Life”? And are you planning to read “Good…
Make it: North Country Creamery cheese sauce
By Melissa Hart
October 8, 2019
Stock up at this year’s Essex Country Cheese Tour, on Sunday, Oct. 13 This year’s Essex County Cheese Tour is coming up on Sunday, Oct. 13. In honor of the occasion, Ashlee Kleinhammer and Steve Googin, owners of North Country Creamery in Keeseville, shared this recipe for a homemade mac and cheese featuring their farmstead…
Dippikill retreat closes public access
By Melissa Hart
October 7, 2019
Until recently, the trails on the property were available to members of the public, too, for hiking, skiing and snowshoeing.
Welcome to Adirondack Food and Farms
By Melissa Hart
October 4, 2019
Let’s explore this together! Hi there! Thanks for being part of this new experiment in regional journalism. The Adirondack Explorer has partnered with Pactio, a publishing platform that values trust and high-quality journalism, to offer micro-subscriptions to readers who are willing to pay a small amount to support this specific area of coverage by our…
A (cheesy) celebration
By Melissa Hart
October 4, 2019
Annual Essex County cheese tour coming up Columbus Day weekend Since 2014, three unique Adirondack farm-based creameries have teamed up on hosting a daylong open house. Now in its sixth year, the 2019 Essex County Cheese Tour is taking place from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Sunday, Oct. 13 and features some of the…
Rulf’s hosts Open Farm Sunday Oct. 6
By Melissa Hart
September 26, 2019
Part of day of events happening among Cabot Creamery Co-operative members This fall, members in Cabot Creamery’s network of family farms are opening their doors for a day of family fun. Activities include hayrides, scavenger hunts, kids’ games, farm animals – plus samples of Cabot’s signature cheddar cheese. In the Champlain Valley, there will be…
AdkAction program boosts access to locally grown produce
By Melissa Hart
September 17, 2019
AdkAction has become an approved vendor through the Double Up Food Bucks program. A national initiative administered in New York State by the Buffalo-based Field and Fork Network, the program helps kick in an extra incentive for people receiving food assistance, by giving them a financial boost when they buy local.
Adirondack Harvest Festival kicks off fall
By Melissa Hart
September 4, 2019
Event coming up Sept. 21 at Essex County Fairgrounds The nonprofit Adirondack Harvest is hosting a harvest-themed festivals featuring food, farmers, and fun, taking place Saturday, Sept. 21 at the Essex County Fairgrounds in Westport. The night before, on Friday, Sept. 20, a special Long Table Dinner is planned. Hosted by DaCy Meadow Farm and…
Continuing the camping tradition
By Melissa Hart
September 1, 2019
Camping was a big part of my childhood in the 1980s, growing up outside of Syracuse. My parents towed our family’s pop-up camper across New York State, spending time in the Adirondacks, along the St. Lawrence River and out to Niagara Falls.