“Crop Mobs” of local volunteers descend on area farms and work on specific projects for which small farmers need extra labor to complete. Here in Ithaca, the local crop mobbers have helped with planting fruit trees and collecting unharvested food for local organizations. In return for their help, crop mobbers gain experience, knowledge, and, best of all, a delicious and locally grown lunch from the farmer. “Crop mob” events usually take place once a month at different farms in the region.
Posts tagged local farms
Finger Lakes CRAFT (Collaborative Regional Alliance for Farmer Training)
Mar 16th
Finger Lakes CRAFT (Collaborative Regional Alliance for Farmer Training) is a new program developed by Groundswell Center for Local Food & Farming. As part of this program, mentor farms work with aspiring farmers to help them develop advanced techniques and expand their knowledge base.
Finger Lakes Cheese Trail
Feb 27th
The Finger Lakes Wine Country Tourism Marketing Association was inspired by the success of the Finger Lakes Wine Trail to create the Finger Lakes Cheese Trail. The ten cheese makers featured on the trail all make cheeses from the dairy products they produce on their own farms. The marketing association hopes the cheese trail will raise the visibility of both wines and cheeses within the region and promote buying local, thus helping all these local businesses to become more profitable.
FLORA
Feb 27th
Regional chefs now have the opportunity to buy fresh local foods in the quantities they need thanks to FLORA, a new program developed by the Finger Lakes Organics Farm Collective and Regional Access Distributors. With this program, restaurants can buy directly from farms using the extensive FLORA catalogue. FLORA worked with over twenty different farms last season, and is expecting to add more farms from within the region.
Garden 4 Humanity
Feb 27th
Gardens 4 Humanity, a project of Cornell Cooperative Extension of Tompkins County’s Whole Community Project, is a community driven effort to promote sustainability through urban gardening and local farm connections. In the last year, a number of these community gardens have been created, and plans for more community gardens in the city are in the works.
BeetNPath
Dec 7th

PrOats is the first introduction by new Ithaca-based company BeetNPath,which has four operating tenets: Healthy, Natural & Organic, Responsible & Sustainable, and Operational Efficiency. The PrOats oatmeal product is madefrom organic steel-cut oats, organic flax seeds, egg whites and water. BeetNPath does its best to buy from local or regional farms; its Farm to Fork program offers a transparent system to track ingredients back to thesource farm or producer.