Many farm workers and owners count themselves as part-time upstate residents, commuting each weekend from Manhattan and Brooklyn, in some cases, to sell their produce to Catskill locals. Speaking to the farmers responsible for everything from Long Eddy\u2019s Eminence Road Farm Winery\u00a0to Franklin\u2019s Sherman Hill Farmstead Cheeses, I gather perspectives on the importance of local farming, underlining the crucial nature of sustainability and how purchasing food from a \u201cfamily operation,\u201d as Sherman Hill\u2019s Linda Smith puts it, is a relatively easy way to bolster the local food economy and up the ante in one\u2019s kitchen at the same time.<\/p>\n

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