Support your local dairy farmers by buying Five Acre Farms milk, now on the shelf at the Price Chopper on Western Avenue in Guilderland. (Closer to the Twenty Mall store? You can pick up our milk there too.) Flip open the red tag hanging from the jug to meet your farmers and learn exactly where your milk comes from. Get directions and store information here:
http://www.pricechopper.com/StoreLocator/Store_Detail_S.las?L=183&S=
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Swing by the dairy case at Price Chopper in Amsterdam to pick up fresh local milk straight from the farm. Read that red tag on the jug to meet your local farmers and learn exactly where your milk comes from. Need directions? Check here:
http://www.pricechopper.com/StoreLocator/Store_Detail_S.las?L=139&S=
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Motor to Malta for Five Acre Farms milk at Price Chopper. Straight from your local farmers, our milk won Cornell’s top prize last year for being the highest-quality, freshest and best-tasting milk in New York State. Buy local — and keep farmers farming.
Get directions and store information here:
http://www.pricechopper.com/StoreLocator/Store_Detail_S.las?L=184&S=
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Stop in at the Glenville Price Chopper in Scotia to buy Five Acre Farms milk, straight from the area’s local dairy farmers. Flip open the red tag on the jug to meet your local farmers, winners last year of Cornell’s top prize for being the highest quality, freshest and best-tasting milk in New York State. Get directions and store information here:
http://www.pricechopper.com/StoreLocator/Store_Detail_S.las?L=38&S=
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Visit the dairy case at the Altamont Avenue Price Chopper in Schenectady to buy fresh local milk delivered straight from the farm. Don’t miss the red tag on the jug to meet your local farmers and learn exactly where your milk comes from. Need directions? Check here:
http://www.pricechopper.com/StoreLocator/Store_Detail_S.las?L=175&S=
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Support local dairy farmers by buying Five Acre Farms milk, now on the shelf at the Bethlehem Price Chopper in Slingerlands. Open the tag hanging from the jug to meet your farmers and learn exactly where your milk comes from. Get directions and store information here:
http://www.pricechopper.com/StoreLocator/Store_Detail_S.las?L=159&S=
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Five Acre Farms milk has come to the Albany Shaker Road Price Chopper in Albany, straight from the area’s local dairy farmers. Open the tag right on the jug to meet your local farmers, who last year won Cornell’s top prize for being the highest quality, freshest and best-tasting milk in New York State. Get directions and store information here:
http://www.pricechopper.com/StoreLocator/Store_Detail_S.las?L=188&S=
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There’s no longer any reason to wonder where your milk comes from. Go to the Glenmont Price Chopper to pick up Five Acre Farms milk and meet your local dairy farmers right on the tag. Check here if you need directions or store information:
http://www.pricechopper.com/StoreLocator/Store_Detail_S.las?L=196&S=
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How? Pick up Five Acre Farms whole, reduced fat and skim milk, available at the Brunswick Price Chopper in Troy beginning today. Check out the tag right on the jug to meet your local farmers and learn exactly where your milk comes from. Find directions and store information here:
http://www.pricechopper.com/StoreLocator/Store_Detail_S.las?L=3&S=
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Beginning today, visit the dairy case at the Twenty Mall Price Chopper in Guilderland to learn more about Five Acre Farms and pick up fresh local milk delivered straight from the farm.
http://www.pricechopper.com/StoreLocator/Store_Detail_S.las?L=183&S=
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Family owned and operated since the early 1900’s, Samascott Orchards grows a wide array of fruits and vegetables, including more than 60 varieties of apples, in the Hudson River Valley. Continually improving their selection, brothers Bryan and Jake, the farm’s 4th generation proprietors, search out and plant the best new and heirloom varieties to produce the most flavorful apples.
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Depending on whom you ask, as much as 98% of shelf-stable apple juice sold in the U.S. grocery aisle is made by adding water to concentrate shipped from China and other countries. While concentrate travels well and offers convenience to bottlers, with so much quality fruit at hand, there’s no need for it to travel as concentrate.
In the Northeast, Local Apple Juice is not from concentrate.
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Next week eat out, and help keep farmers farming. During American Farmland Trust’s second annual Dine Out for Farms week, local restaurants around the country will offer special dishes and donate the proceeds to help save farms and ranches.
http://action.farmland.org/site/PageServer?pagename=friends_of_farms_participating_restaurants
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Check out Five Acre Farms in Regina Schrambling’s piece this week on Epicurious, inspired by a recent visit to Fairway. We also like the related post by an Epicurious reader about what’s possible with our heavy cream.
http://www.epicurious.com/articlesguides/blogs/editor/2011/10/local-milk-.html
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Post-harvest, bunkers are brimming with hay and corn silage (a combo of chopped kernels, husk and stalk), two staples of the cows’ winter diet.
Corn (a grass) helps cows maintain their weight in the cold months, promotes milk production and is easily digested when prepared properly. A brown tinge at the base of the kernel means the corn is ready to be harvested. In the field, it travels at high speed through a corn chopper outfitted with a kernel processor. Shooting the corn through a hole just one inch in diameter, the chopper makes quick work of finely chopping it, while the kernel processor smashes the kernels for easy digestion.
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Corn, just right for harvesting
The work of chopper and kernel processor
Can you taste in your milk how much cows love winter? In cool weather, cows produce more milk, and more milk with greater amounts of butterfat (cream) and protein. Once the temperature dips to around 50 degrees or below, they’re more relaxed and eat more than during the heat of summer, which can be a stressful time for their large bodies. Cows are happy in the cold as long as they’re protected from wind.
Our farmers are making sure the cows remain content all winter. They’ve harvested and stored hay and corn for the cows to eat, installed new cow mattresses (foam bedding that makes their stalls cozier) and put up curtains in the barn for added warmth on the harshest days.
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Rainfall in the Northeast this spring, summer and fall (double the normal amount) has made it a challenging year for farmers. Extreme weather has been a consideration in wrapping up the growing season and preparing the farm for the winter. To avoid ripping up fields and getting stuck, our farmers used smaller equipment to harvest hay and corn. Despite acres lost to flooding, hay and corn have been packed and sealed into bunkers, ready for the cows to eat throughout fall and winter, their favorite time of year.
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