Battenkill Valley Creamery is owned and operated by fourth and fifth generation farmers, Don and Seth McEachron. The McEachron family has been dairy farming in the Battenkill Valley region of New York for more than a century. Seth’s great-great-grandfather began milking cows in 1902, and his grandfather moved the farm to its current location in 1945, starting with just 12 cows. Today, the herd numbers 540 cows of mixed breed Holsteins, Jersey, and Holstein-Jersey crossbreeds for higher ...

Cross Culture Kombucha is a woman-owned kombucha brewery and brand based out of nearby Danbury, CT.

Liz and Ian Ceppos started Cross Culture Kombucha with the vision of providing the non-drinkers and health-conscious a delicious drink that can be enjoyed at any time, especially socially with family and frien0
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After years of searching for, but not finding healthy non-alcoholic beverages that also tasted delicious was harder than Ian imagined. Then he discovered k...

Freedom Hill Farm in Otisville, NY, founded in 2001 by Rick and Julie, is a small dairy farm on 200 acres once owned by Rick's grandparents. The farm focuses on sustainable practices with pasture-fed Jersey cows producing high-quality raw milk under a NY state permit. Beyond dairy, the farm engages the community with tours and educational visits and integrates a Christian ministry, enhancing both spiritual and physical nourishment. This commitment to natural farming and community outreach...

Meet the Shulz Family, the force behind Healing Home Foods. What started as a quest by Shelley to use food to heal her family has become a company dedicated to producing top-quality, flavorful foods containing real nutrition.

After her son, Jackson, was diagnosed with Autism in 2006, Shelley removed all dairy, gluten, grains, starches and preservatives from his diet, carefully sourcing all of his food and preparing everything in her own kitchen. The positive changes in Jackson&rsquo...

Mary’s love of cooking started at a young age; she made her first apple pie for her family with apples picked from the tree in her yard when she was nine years old. Turning raw apples into a pie was magical and the pleasure her family expressed left a lasting impression. Cooking and eating meals together was a daily event growing up. Her family grew most of their vegetables.  Their milk, eggs and bread were home delivered. Meals were often shared with friends and sometimes stranger...

The story of Natalie’s begins in an orange grove with a mother pulling her daughter in a red wagon. Marygrace Sexton’s husband Bobby Sexton, a fourth-generation Florida citrus grower, dreamed of producing fresh squeezed juice but was too busy running the family’s packing house to pursue it. Marygrace knew the superior qualities of Florida citrus firsthand. Though she had exclusive access to the country’s best citrus, she didn’t have the same access to fresh ...

Our Daily Bread is a small, artisanal, family-owned and operated bakery nestled between New York’s Hudson Valley & Capital District.

In 1977, Our Daily Bread Bakery was born in the railroad town of Chatham - we began baking traditional, artisan hearth loaves in the European style & delivering them down to the Union Square Green Market. Not much has changed since then. We use time honored, basic hand-made techniques, we support local farms and farmers by using 5...

In 2012, with a bumper crop of jalapenos in our garden and not knowing what to do with them,  we were introduced to jalapeno pepper jam by a dear family friend. It was love at first bite and we began handcrafting our own jalapeno jam and found, to our delight, that when given as a gift to neighbors and family they repeatedly asked for more.
 
By the end of 2013 we had tweaked our recipe and were selling at local Christmas and holiday craft fairs. The beginning of 2015 ...