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A Special Section of the SULLIVAN COUNTY DEMOCRAT, June 14, 2016 Section F Callicoon, N.Y.

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Each market hasits own thingThe Farmers MarketPromotion project

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Farmers markets grow in popu-larity every year. To make thatwork for the vendors, CornellCooperative Extension (CCE), alongwith the Sullivan County Division ofPlanning & Environmental Manage-ment, Sullivan County Departmentof Public Health, the Sullivan County

Visitors Association and variousfarmers market managers put theirheads together on a project to helpthe markets increase attendance andoverall sales. The project has come tobe known as the Farmers MarketPromotion.

According to CCEs Agriculture & Food Systems Team Leader MelindaMeddaugh, the project will kick offthis year with a soft launch to testthe waters as to what works and whatdoesnt.

The county hired a marketing con-sultant and a design consultant towork together, said Meddaugh.Well be doing survey work to gatherinformation both on people thatattend and dont attend the markets.We will also be working on things likeradio advertising, billboards and sig-nage to attract more people.

Existing markets that signed on to bea part of the Farmers MarketPromotion project were Roscoe, RockHill, Monticello, Liberty, Barryville,Callicoon and Bethel. A $100,000USDA Farmers Market PromotionProgram grant was awarded toSullivan County to help aid the project.

Each market has its own thing

going on, said Meddaugh, and wewant to encourage people to visiteach individual market and its webpage.

CCE will be providing coordination,technical assistance and education tothe consumers and the public inorder to help stabilize markets andhopefully find other locations whereadditional farmers markets can bedeveloped.

They also hope to initiate a farmersmarket nutrition program, make itpossible for seniors and others to usecoupons and redemptions, have deli-cious recipe demos at the marketsalong with fun and engaging activi-ties for children, an education classon composting and most important-ly, talk about why eating healthy andsupporting farmers markets is soessential to the community and thecounty.

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Tips for shopping ata farmers marketfrom Cornell Cooperative Extension

Cornell Cooperative Extension of Sullivan County offersthese tips for getting the most out of your outing to ourlocal farmers markets:Know Your Seasons

If you know a bit of what to expect when you get to the farmersmarket, making decisions at each stall is much easier. Learn whatgrows in your area when, and talk to the growers about what willbe coming to market in upcoming weeks.

Come Prepared Bring a shopping bag Bring cash; most vendors do not accept credit/debit cards Plan meals ahead of time Arrive early for best selection Walk through the whole market before making purchases Compare price, quality, and selection

Discover Sample different varieties of products Talk to farmers to learn how and where the food was grown Get preparation tips from the growers themselves

Why Shop at Farmers Markets? Freshly picked fruits and vegetables are better for you. They

spend more time in the sun and less time traveling. You can choose from a wide variety of fruits and vegetables

not found in the grocery store. You can get produce that is often fresher and less expensive. You will be supporting local farmers and keep money circulat-

ing in your community. Youll be green! Buying from your local farmers market cuts

down on food packaging waste and transportation time. You will be helping to improve your familys health as well as

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Your eyes will be overwhelmedby the colors of locally growntomatoes, yellow and red pep-pers, bunches of carrots and radish-es, onions, potatoes, kale and let-tuce.

Your sense of smell will be tanta-lized by the smell of fresh flowers,beautiful soaps, the sweet aroma ofhoney and wholesome aroma offresh baked bread.

Your taste buds will dance withdelight while trying samples of dif-ferent cheeses, wines, apple cider,maple syrup, baked goods and more.

The Rock Hill Farmers Market onRock Hill Drive, sponsored and sup-ported by the Rock Hill BusinessAssociation, is now open for the 2016summer/fall season.

The market, which is open everySaturday until the end of September,is held rain or shine from 10 a.m. to 1p.m.

The Rock Hill Farmers Marketbegan six years ago when a group ofcommunity members got togetherand saw the need to bring fresh, localfood into the Rock Hill region of the

county, said Market ManagerMichelle Lipari. As we begin oursixth season, the market continues togrow in terms of vendors, communi-ty and volunteer support.

The mission of the market is tohelp promote local, sustainable andorganic agriculture, which in turnhelps provide opportunities for theareas farmers, small businesses, andfood artisans as well as local youth.

Vendors youll see there includeAaron Burr Cider, Winterton Farms,The Bake House, Somewhere in TimeFarm, Pure Mountain Honey, NaturalValley Kitchen, Trapani Farms, M & SFarm, Kilgore Artistry, Majestic Farm,Mike Salomon Photography, GlenWild Farms, Honey Bee Herbs,Eminence Road Farm Winery, DiehlHomestead Farm, Clean Karma andBeaver Dam Brook Farm.

Knowing that the market would bewelcomed both by the locals andsecond-homeowners, we committedto having the farmers market notonly be a place where you would beable to find locally farmed productslike milk, cheese, fruit, cider, wine,

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So get out your reusable, cloth bagsand head to Rock Hill on Saturday.

Youll most likely go home with fullarms and a smile on your face.

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Omigosh, there's a traffic jamin Neversink! That was theoutcry of one amazed localshopper browsing with the rest of ahuge throng at the first-everNeversink Farmers Market.

Hosted on Saturday, May 28 by theNeversink General Store on Route 55,the market will run on Saturdays untilOctober, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., spon-sored by the Neversink Chamber ofCommerce.

The kick-off was thrilling.It was a resounding success, said

Mark McLewin, who with wifeChristina Aby-Azar owns and operatesthe General Store, gas station and deli,formerly named Cannie D's Corner.

During its very first four hours, theFarmers Market drew 1,000 people,McLewin estimated. Families, friendsand strangers were all delighted toencounter locally raised meats, freshbaked goods, maple syrup, and flow-ers and vegetables for planting.

People said it's great to be able toshop in their own backyard,McLewin said.

To advance a one-stop shoppingconcept, fruit and vegetables werealso shipped in from New York Cityproduce markets zucchini, romainelettuce, arugula, mushrooms, onions,celery, garlic, strawberries and blue-berries.

As the local growing season pro-gresses, more regional farmers willprovide the produce, McLewin said.

Bluegrass music played as peoplemilled about the vendors' stands.

There was Grahamsville's ownDawn McClure, who sold her WagginTreats for pets. Ann Marie Turner,who graduated from Tri-ValleyCentral School in Grahamsville andfrom SUNY Sullivan, sold her owndesigned jewelry. Tri-Valley teacherTanya Huggler offered homemadesoaps and linen sprays.

Then there was Mary Magnetico ofGrahamsville, with her ChestnutCreek Baked Goods, and CatskillMountain Sugar House selling maple

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syrup. Other vendors included RusselScheirer of Barefoot Gardener, whopeddled flowers, vegetable plants,perennials and herbs; John Story ofStory's Neversink Plant Company,with rare succulents and other plants;and Artie Rubenzahl, who sold plantsand produce.

Locally raised beef came fromThunderview Farms, as Muthig Farmoffered maple products in all theirvariations: syrup, candy, cream, jellyand granulated. Catherine Damestoyoffered herbal homemade insectrepellent, while George Dean soldgarden soil.

The festivities also included an offi-cial grand opening celebration for theGeneral Store, which McLewin andAby-Azar took over in December2015. In their five months at this cen-tral meeting-and-greeting spot forlocals, the couple has made signifi-cant changes.

Friend Jaime Stankevicius, a five-star chef from New York City, nowturns out specialties like speciallysmoked barbecue, or spinach pie in alight puff pastry with pine nuts andfeta cheese.

Another chef, Wenjie Dong, arriveson Friday and Saturday nights to turnout north China favorites such assmoked chicken and fresh vegetablesover fried rice with egg, scallions andginger.

Basically, we're offering food thatcomes out for $6 but would sell for$30, said McLewin

Baked goods from Daddy's Donuts& Bake Goods of Middletown, operat-ed by Giulio DeFilippis (of Monticel-lo's DeFilippis Bakery fame) are a biggustatory favorite at the GeneralStore.

McLewin is no stranger to SullivanCounty. He's well-known as owner ofthe real estate firm Pennywise Prop-erties and landlord of numerousbuildings in the area. Wife Cristina isthe managing editor for the WallStreet Journal Americas, which is aninternational business-news sectionfor partner newspapers throughoutLatin America.

McLewin said the work at the Gen-eral Store is changing his life.

We are proud and honored, hesaid, to be part of this amazing com-munity.

Ann Marie Turner of Anns Booty had herbeautiful and unusual jewelry on display atthe Neversink Farmers Market.

In addition to his abundant plants and veg-etables, Russ Scheirer, proprietor of the Bear-foot Gardener, recently started featuringnature photography as well.

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Barryville Farmers MarketMarket Manager: Greg Swartz3385 State Route 97, Located behind TheRiver MarketBarryville, NYMay 14 October 29Every Saturday from 10 a.m.-1 p.m. Holiday Markets: Saturdays, November 19& December 17, 10 a.m.-1 p.m.Shohola Firehouse, Shohola, [email protected] www.barryvillefarmersmarket.com

Bethel Farmers Market:Market Manager: Scott GoodmanRoute 55 Kauneonga LakeBethel, NYJuly 9 - August 27 Every Saturday from 4-8 p.m.info@kauneongalakefarmersmarket.orgwww.kauneongalakefarmersmarket.org

Neversink Farmers Market: Neversink Chamber of CommerceMarket Manager: Russel the MiracleGardenerR4 Schumway RdNeversink, NYMay 28 October Every Saturday from 10 a.m. -2 p.m.845-985-2076

Callicoon Farmers Market: 866-270-2015manager@sullivancountyfarmersmarkets.orgwww.callicoonfarmersmarket.orgOutdoor MarketA. Dorrer Drive, Callicoon Creek ParkCallicoon, NY May 1 November 6Every Sunday from 11 a.m.-2 p.m. Indoor Market 8 Creamery Road, Delaware Youth CenterCallicoon, NYJanuary 17 & 31; February 14 & 28;March 13; April 3 & 17;November 6 - December 18: Every Sunday11 a.m.- 2 p.m.

Liberty Mountainkeeper FarmersMarket:Catskill MountainkeeperMarket Manager: Ashley Tully 91 S. Main StreetLiberty, NYMay 27 October 28Every Friday from 4 p.m. - 7 p.m. 845-439-1230ashley@catskillmountainkeeper.orgwww.catskillmountainkeeper.org

Monticello Farmers Market:Catskill MountainkeeperMarket Manager: Ashley TullyNorth Street and Jefferson St., Ted StroebeleParking Lot Monticello, NYJune 27 October 10Every Monday from 11 a.m. - 2 p.m.845-439-1230ashley@catskillmountainkeeper.orgwww.catskillmountainkeeper.org

Rock Hill Farmers Market: Rock Hill Business and CommunityAssociationMarket Manager: Michelle Lipari223 Rock Hill DriveRock Hill, NYJune 4 September 24Every Saturday from 10 a.m. - 1 p.m. [email protected] www.rockhillfarmersmarket.com

Roscoe Farmers Market: Roscoe Chamber of CommerceNiforatos Field Roscoe, NYMay 8 - October 9 Every Sunday from 10 a.m.-2 [email protected]

The Harvest Festival at Bethel Woods:Market Manager: Kasia Zalewska Hurd Road, Bethel Woods Performing ArtsCenter, Bethel, NYSundays in the fall from 11 a.m. - 4 p.m.(August 28, September 4, September 11,September 18, September 25)845-583-2193 [email protected]

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At first my nursery was treesand shrubs and roses andornamental grasses andperennial flowers, said TrinaPilonero, owner of Silver HeightsFarm in Jeffersonville, but they didntreally speak to me. One of the thingsthat did speak to me, was tomatoes.

To the dismay of many, Pilonero hasrecently retired from her work at Sil-ver Heights Farm this year.

Pilonero grew up with parents whosaved seeds from their tomatoes andother vegetables, which you cant dowith todays hybrid plants becausethe seeds are often sterile or dontreproduce true to the parent plant.

Whats the biggest difference? Thetaste.

A real tomato, grown from genera-

tions of tomatoes, said Pilonero, hasan unbelievable flavor, its juicy and adeep beautiful red.

My mother was a horrible cook butshe was excellent at canning things,laughed Pilonero. When you learnhow to can a tomato, a good tomato,you cant ruin its flavor. I have memo-ries of bad cooking, but good flavorsof tomato.

Unsatisfied with the tomatoes shewas finding at the stores and varioushome markets, Pilonero decided totry her hand at growing 50 varieties ofopen pollinated, short-seasonedtomatoes to see how productive theywould be here, beginning what wouldsoon become Silver Heights Farm.

The tomato plants that she didntput in the garden, she put at the endof the driveway with a little cigar box


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and a sign that read Tomatoes forsale. She even put a small ad in theDemocrat.

People came and I dont believethat anyone ever robbed me, saidPilonero. The plants disappearedand there was always something inthe cigar box, so that was nice.

The first year was so successful thatPilonero decided to grow nearly 75different varieties of tomato plantsthe following year.

Thats not the only thing she had herhands in; she also helped get farmersmarkets started and on the move inSullivan County with the help of Cor-nell Cooperative Extension.

Its a struggle to be a farmer and itsa harder struggle when you are faraway from major markets like theones in New York City, explainedPilonero, but farmers markets meanthe farmer doesnt actually have topay a middleman in order to sell hisproduct.

One of the first markets to get start-ed? The Liberty Farmers Market in1996.

Not only was it exciting to get farm-

ers markets started in the area, but italso gave Pilonero another outlet tosell her plants.

I stood at my market stand and Ibegged people to buy my plants,laughed Pilonero, in which I wanted$2.00 per plant. People bought themeventually. The next year, they stoodin line for my plants.

The plants provided fruit not justfor a week but for a long growing sea-son and they had the flavor that peo-ple remembered from when theywere younger.

After that, Pilonero decided to addmore: peppers, eggplants, lettuce,other vegetables, herbs and someflowers. She made sure she kept allthe plants open-pollinated, meaningseeds that breed true or self-polli-nate and will produce plants that arepractically identical to the parentplant.

To me, one of the things that wasdistressing to see was that peoplewere and are losing the knowledge ofhow to do things that one or two gen-erations ago, they did as a matter ofcourse, said Pilonero, things thatwere a necessary part of living. AfterWWII when hybrids were introducedpeople thought it was great and easy,

but what they didnt realize, was thatyou couldnt save the seeds.

So Ive had a mission to preservethe genetic diversity of our vegetablesand to educate people on how to saveand regrow seeds. We grow good gar-deners.

Pilonero, for the past several years,grows about 2,000 open-pollinatedvarieties of vegetables, herbs andflowers. A massive number, especiallyin comparison to the low number of

three or four varieties of vegetablesnormally found at a store in springjust before planting season.

With so much happening at SilverHeights Farm, Pilonero worked out adeal with Gorzynski Ornery Farm inNarrowsburg, eventually moving hernursery there from 2005-2015. Herbusiness tripled within the first year.

She also began selling her plantsand products at the Union SquareFarmers Market in New York City.

Sadly, last fall was her last season,both with Gorzynski Farm and the

Union Square market.Many who have come to love

Pilonero and frequent Silver HeightsFarm annually, are forlorn as her timeto retire grows ever closer. Her officiallast day and the last day of SilverHeights Farm was Saturday, June 4.

So what does the future hold for Sil-ver Heights Farm and Pilonero?

Silver Heights Farm will be takenover by a friend of Piloneros whostudied at the nursery, learning aboutthe seeds and plants. It will be knownas Wild Yarrow Farm and will be locat-ed on New Turnpike Road in Cochec-ton, offering many of the same prod-ucts as Silver Heights Farm: organicheirloom vegetables, flowers, medici-nal and culinary herbs.

Pilonero and her husband have soldtheir house to a young couple and willbe moving to West Virginia.

I am really pleased that the housewill be staying agricultural, saidPilonero with a smile. This youngcouple is interested in food and grow-ing. Theyre thinking about a lot ofdifferent things that they can do here.

I really didnt want someone thatsees how this property can be sub-divided because once agriculturalland is gone, its gone.

Pilonero will be moving close to herdaughter, helping out on two differ-ent farms that she and her husbandhave: Stay A While Farm and ThreeFalls Farm. To Piloneros delight, herdaughters Stay A While Farm, special-izes in miniature mediterraneanwooly donkeys.

Its going to be hard to leave. Wecame here in September of 1990, soweve been here for almost 26 years.We have a lot of friends, a lot of rela-tionships with good people.


Ive had a mission to preservethe genetic diversity of our vegetables and to to educate people on how to save andregrow seeds. We grow good gardeners.

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them to heal thems

elves.

On March 25, 2011

, Bryce

was added to the t

ransplant

list with whats know

n as 1B

status, the second

from the

top. At the time, do

ctors told

the Rogersons th

at listing

him at 1A the hig

hest and

most needy status

would

require Bryce to wai

t in a hos-

pital for a heart to

be found.

But with Bryce abl

e to take

his medication at h

ome, the

Rogersons opted to

keep him

in Neversink, to all

ow him to

continue attendin

g school

and be with his fam

ily.

They were told i

t would

take six months to

a year to

find him a heart.

On June 25, 2013

, more

than two years late

r, his heart

hadnt come. The R

ogersons

moved their son up

to 1A sta-

tus, the top of the t

ransplant

waiting list.

At that time, doct

ors had

changed their mind

and said

Bryce could stay h

ome and

wait. They told the R

ogersons

it would probably b

e a month

or two until a he

art was

found. It was alm

ost seven months

until the call came.

That was January

14, the

night Nicole called a

friend to

watch Bryan and pa

cked her

other two kids into

the car to

fly over the roads to

Morgan

Stanley Childrens H

ospital at

Columbia Presbyt

erian in

New York City. Bryc

e was cry-

ing, Nicole recalls

, but his

biggest worry was

how am I

going to turn in m

y home-

work? I told h

im your teacher

isnt going to wor

ry about

your writing assign

ment.

Husband Brian h

ad just

arrived in Alabama

for his

hunting trip and cou

ldnt find

a flight north, so he

rented a

car in Montgom

ery and

drove straight thr

ough the

night to Atlanta, Ge

orgia, for

the earliest f

light to

LaGuardia, a 6 a.m

. that he

hoped would get him

there in

time to see his

little boy

before he went into

surgery.

Brians plane left l

ate, but

the fates aligned b

ecause of

CONTRIBUTED PHOTO

The Team Bryce logo

is of the

local group of suppor

t for the

family.

CONTRIBUTED PHOTO

Despite being born w

ith a potentially fatal

heart condition, Bryce

Rogerson has led as

normal a childhood

as possible. Here, h

e

proudly shows off a h

uge trout he caught.

PLEASE SEE BRYCE, 3A

Opposition to China City gro

ws

BY GUY CHARLES HAR

RITON

MONTICELLO

In its

heyday, the Catski

ll resorts,

known as the Bors

cht Belt,

were a premier vaca

tion spot

for those residing

in the

northeast. Top no

tch acts

politicians have sh

own their

concern as well.

When the peo

ple of

Thompson heard

about it,

they were dumb

founded,

according to Super

visor Bill

Rieber. The oppos

ition was

immediate and s

trong he

Casino, throw of the dice

Mamakating cool to Shawanga

BY GUY CHARLES HAR

RITON

WURTSBORO Go

ver-

nor Andrew M. C

uomos

plan to bring reve

nue to

would have ame

nities

such as a market

selling

local produce, a foo

d and

wine center and

an out-

door performance

space

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