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2. Agriculture in New York - Wikipedia

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   Agriculture is a major component of the New York economy. [1] As of the 2012 census of agriculture, there were over 35,000 farms covering an area of 7 million acres (28,000 km 2) which contributed $5.4 billion in gross sales value and $1.2 billion in net farm income to the national economy.

3. Glynwood Center for Regional Food and Farming - Wikipedia

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   In 1929, financier George Walbridge Perkins Jr. and his family purchased land located in the Hudson Highlands now called Glynwood Farm. [6] Mr. Perkins was a noted conservationist and his father George Walbridge Perkins was one of the creators of the Palisades Interstate Park Commission, which to date has conserved over 100,000 acres of parklands and historic sites.

4. New York State Department of Agriculture and Markets

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   Agriculture is a major component of the New York economy. [3] As of the 2012 census of agriculture, there were over 35,000 farms covering an area of 7 million acres (28,000 km 2) which contributed $5.4 billion in gross sales value and $1.2 billion in net farm income to the national economy.

5. Queens County Farm Museum - Wikipedia

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   The Queens County Farm Museum, also known as Queens Farm, is a 47-acre (190,000 m 2) farm in the Floral Park and Glen Oaks neighborhoods of Queens in New York City.The farm occupies the city's largest remaining tract of undisturbed farmland (in operation since 1697), and is still a working farm today.

6. Chaseholm Farm Creamery - Wikipedia

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   The Chaseholm Farm Creamery is a 350-acre (140 ha) family-run farm in Pine Plains, New York, on the borders of Dutchess and Columbia Counties in New York's Hudson Valley, protected by the Columbia Land Conservancy. [1] [2] It works with many farms in the surrounding Hudson Valley as part of the local food movement. The Chaseholm Farm Creamery ...

7. Farmers' markets in New York City - Wikipedia

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   Due to loss of farmland the food being produced on the small regional farms was not making it into New York City causing a lack of fresh, decent food in the city. [ 8 ] [ 9 ] The problem is further explained in "The Cornucopia Project" that details how from 1960 to 1980 the number of farms decreased by 28 percent and the land in farms by 19.5%.