agriculture

It won’t be long before the dedicated leek hunters and diggers will start presenting recycled butter or cottage cheese containers filled with leek dip...

Low maintenance, beautiful flowers and plenty of varieties have made hydrangeas a favorite landscape plant. It seems you can’t visit a garden center o...

ELLICOTTVILLE — Hundreds of young students in Cattaraugus County schools excitedly learned about strawberries last week from the Cattaraugus County 4-...

LITTLE VALLEY — The Cattaraugus County Sheriff’s Office was commended Wednesday by County Legislature Chairman Andrew Burr on its recent reaccreditati...

CUBA — Cornell Cooperative Extension is planning a gardening class series at Cuba Library. The benefits of gardening and landscaping are well known, b...

From crime on the rails and vain young men to worries over DDT in milk, from naming the Reilly Center to a “Quantum Leap” in schools, here’s a look ba...

BELFAST — More than 100 grangers took part in raising funds and welcoming state officials to the Pomona Grange Annual Dinner Saturday night. The Alleg...

RANDOLPH — The Randolph Central School District commemorated a significant milestone this year — the 85th anniversary of its successful Future Farmers...

SALAMANCA — Despite snow on the ground in recent days, a special education classroom at Seneca Intermediate School has already begun growing a garden....

ALBANY (TNS) — The state Cannabis Control Board voted Friday to waive licensing fees for the next two years for New York’s 279 cultivators, many of wh...

ALFRED — Eight Alfred State College students and a staff member spent spring break working with Habitat for Humanity in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, ...

ALBANY — Natural gas drilling companies would be banned in New York from using an extraction method that involves injecting large amounts of liquified...

Provided On a backroad — anywhere in Allegany County. Whether you are an aspiring Ansel Adams or Margaret Bourke-White, Allegany County is the place t...

ELDRED, Pa. — Otto-Eldred School District agriculture teacher Brandon Witmer was recognized this week as a 2024 Northern Regional Golden Owl Award win...

LITTLE VALLEY — The kids stole the show at the annual Cattaraugus County Farm Bureau presentation during Wednesday’s Cattaraugus County Legislature me...

U.S. Rep. Nick Langworthy introduced the bipartisan, bicameral Making Agricultural Products Locally Essential (MAPLE) Act to support the maple industr...

LITTLE VALLEY — Cattaraugus County 4-H hosted the annual NYS Western District Regional 4-H Horse Bowl Contest Saturday at Cattaraugus-Little Valley Ce...

BELMONT — Cornell Cooperative Extension will host an upcoming workshop, Grow Your Own Asparagus and Rhubarb, set for 10 a.m. to 11 a.m. March 23 at Ti...