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Always Bearing fruit.....

"I am interested in helping people have a tastier life! Learn to have

good taste! By eating seasonally- naturally. Eat healthy be Happy!""

No matter how you slice it, farming is

changing back to basics. And the

sooner it happens the better! Nature is

far smarter than any biotechnology

corporation of the early 21st, it is very

complex and we are Not always as

smart as we think we are. Like many

people organic farmers are getting back

to basics. This 4th of July, lets embrace

Independence from pesticides and large

international corporations and get back

to buying Local!

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Similar to spinach and beets with a flavor that is bitter, pungent

and slightly salty, Swiss chard is truly one of the vegetable

valedictorians with its exceptionally impressive list of health

promoting nutrients. Although Swiss chard is available

throughout the year, its season runs from June through August

when it is at its best and in the greatest abundance at your

local supermarket.

Swiss chard, along with kale, mustard greens and collard

greens, is one of several leafy green vegetables often referred

to as "greens". It is a tall leafy green vegetable with a thick,

crunchy stalk that comes in white, red or yellow with wide fan-

like green leaves. Chard belongs to the same family as beets

and spinach and shares a similar taste profile: it has the

bitterness of beet greens and the slightly salty flavor of spinach

leaves. Both the leaves and stalk of chard are edible.

Independence Pot-LuckLiberty View Farm

July 3rd 20107 PM

Bon-Fire after DuskSinging Dancing Drumming

R.S.V.P

NaturallyGrownapples@Gmail.com

I P L

All chickens and their owners-

One of a kind Hudson Valley Farm Forum. It's been hard for

everyone here in the Hudson Valley and surrounding areas

lately to find rare and unusual breeds as well as just backyard

plain layers. No auctions or connections available locally so

here we are! Trade, Give, Sell, Barter

Next tailgate is the last Saturday of the month. Raindate:

Sunday

@ Hudson Valley Game Farm

737 route 44-55. Highland NY. 12528

more info contact Tank or Carol Marie

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/hudsonvalleychickens/

"Hudson Valley Chickens"

This pesto is an especially tasty way to enjoy fresh kale. Garlicky and

cheesy, this pesto recipe is every bit as tasty as traditional basil pesto,

but the kale makes it healthier.

Use this kale pesto in your favorite lasagna recipe or simply toss with

penne to make pesto pasta.

Prep Time: 5 minutes

Total Time: 5 minutes

Ingredients: • 1/2 cup pine nuts • 2 cups firmly-packed fresh kale • 2-3 cloves garlic • 1/2 tsp. kosher salt • 1/4 cup grated parmesan cheese • 2 Tbsp. to 1/2 cup olive oil

Preparation: 1. Place pine nuts in a dry skillet, and toast, shaking

occasionally, until golden brown, about 3 minutes.

2. Place kale in a food processor fitted with a metal blade. Add

pine nuts, garlic and salt. Pulse until kale is finely chopped.

3. Add cheese, and pulse until cheese is incorporated. Do not

puree or overprocess. The pesto should still be chunky.

4. Drizzle in olive oil, and continue to pulse until the pesto

reaches the desired consistency.

VERY HEALTHY VERY YUMMY!

KALE PESTO RECIPE

is a Community Supported Farm

providing their members regeneratively grown vegetables,

flowers, and herbs for weekly pickup at the farm.

They grow with Permaculture based no-till systems that use no

chemicals, that avoid or eliminate fossil fuel use, that

regenerate their soils, that grow delicious veggies and more…..!

Offering a range of locally produced food: eggs, fresh bread,

maple syrup, lacto-fermented foods, fresh and dried herbs,

fruit, and of course fresh produce from this little farm! !

2010 WORKSHOPS IN THE WORKS (they love suggestions for

workshop topics and locals who have skills to teach!)!!

Some of the topics offered: weed-free no-till garden techniques,

food preservation, canning, drying, lacto-fermentation,

alternative energy and fuels, composting, and much more.!

Almost all of our workshops are by donation. At Regeneration

they believe that sustainable living skills need to be shared

among the community to all who want them. No one will ever

be turned away from their permaculture workshops. And of

course, donations are always gratefully accepted! They

appreciate the support in making these programs available.

SUNDAYS AT THE FARM

Regeneration CSA

81 Clove Valley Road

High Falls, NY 12440

845-687-0535

regenerationcsa@gmail.com

www.RegenerationCSA.org

Fulfilling the vision of a country wedding theme is unique and easy.A sustainable way to have a most special day.

Beautiful country farm settings are the perfect place to entertain. A country wedding venue has many advantages in that the setting itself offers almost all the "decoration". Privately, you and your guests have access to the orchard, edible landscapes and flower gardens through-out the property. Wonderful photo-ops are plentiful on a farm. Farm homes are also perfect accommodations for you, the bridal party, and or your guests.

FARM FOR A DAY Share, learn & laugh...

Weddings in the Hudson Valley

Did you know there are many ways to get out and

enjoy the day while helping a farmer?

Well you can - weeding, watering, harvesting it's easy!

Crop Mob, Woofing or just ask a farmer to volunteer. Liberty View Farm

Regeneration Farm

Lee Reich

!

A wedding on a farm can be most anything from a more informal feeling to an event that is magnificent in grace and elegance and of course anything in between.

Affordable, sustainable and tasteful. On a farm cultivated with love.

One of Liberty View Farms' Barns

Libertyviewfarm.biz for more info!

Located two hours north of New York City, CAS provides a safe

and loving haven for abused horses and farm animals - animals

who have never known warm shelter, spacious pastures, good

food, or the touch of a kind hand. Since 2001, CAS has provided

refuge for over 1,700 such animals, and served as a center to

raise awareness of their mistreatment and its impact on all of us.

In short, the mission of CAS is:

* to provide a safe haven for abused, abandoned, and

neglected horses and farm animals

* to heighten public awareness of the treatment of these

animals and its impact on humans, animals, and the planet we

share through innovative on and off-site programming

* to serve as an educational resource to schools and youth

organizations by providing innovative on-site and school-based

programming

Catskill Animlal Sanctuary

"Tours" at Catskill Animal Sanctuary are unlike any you've ever experienced. For reasons that we'll explain when you arrive, many of our animals free range. Rather than living in enclosed pastures, they're free to go wherever they please throughout the work day. So when you drive into our parking lot, be prepared to have a chicken hop in your car, a sheep walk right up to say hello, or a pig saunter by in his relentless quest for food. If you're lucky, Casey the horse might suggest where you park.

HudsonValleyParents.com is a group of families (with children of

all ages, or soon-to-be through pregnancy and adoption) who live

in, or are connected to, the beautiful Hudson Valley region of New

York State, including Ulster, Dutchess, Orange, Sullivan, and

Westchester Counties. Our purpose is to enable members to

coordinate local activities and discuss parenting issues.

"Hudson Valley Parents" was originally known as the "New Paltz

Playgroup" which began in 2003 when a few of us were encouraged

to exchange phone numbers and e-mails after a local La Leche

League meeting. Until our initial playgroup gatherings, many of us

did not know any other people in the area with a baby and felt

very isolated as new parents. As our membership has grown (from

8 people to over 1000 and counting!), this community network

has evolved from a personal e-mail list, to a Yahoo! group, and

now we're our own official website and forum.

The site's owners are full-time Hudson Valley residents, Erica and

Michael Chase-Salerno, proud parents of Declan and Quinlan.

If you have kids....

Hudson Valley Parents

Take A Share In A Booth In The "Green Tent" At The Dutchess County

Fair!

Low Cost, Limited Commitment To Be Present, and Tremendous

Exposure.

This year at the upcoming Dutchess County Fair (August 24-29), They are

adding a new space to the Green Tent(a BIG tent in the middle of the

infield area of the Fairgrounds): It's a 10' x 25' space, for CSAs, farmers and farmers markets to share at

very low cost...a place where you can display information about your

farm/CSA/farmers market, have people sign up to become members for

the next growing season, and just generally show the thousands of people

who visit the tent what the importance of your enterprise is to our local

communities.

The Dutchess County Fair attracts up to 400,000 or more visitors over six

days. You'll never find another venue to get this kind of real-time

marketing exposure to so many people.And the cost -- $50 per farm/CSA/market -- can't be beat.

Also, by grouping together, you'll only be required to be physically present

in the booth for a few hours one or two days of the Fair (all other Fair

exhibitors/vendors are required to staff their booth 13 hours each day,

for ALL six days!).

If you're interested, please contact Laurie Rich, Coordinator, Dutchess

County Fairgrounds Green Initiative: 845.876.6330;

LRich@frontiernet.net ASAP!

"Green Tent"

Calling All CSA Farms, Farmers and Farmers Markets

Evolutionary Organics is a

28 acre farm run by Kira Kinney. She has been farming for 16 years, the last 8 on Springtown Road in New Paltz. She has had a small

CSA at the farm since 2006

and have been selling in New York City's farmer markets since 1995. Grand Army Plaza in Brooklyn on Saturdays!

"You can get your food right here in your community from a farm and farmer you can get to know. It is important that you realize nature can be both fickle and extreme, thereby altering the schedule some. It is also important that you remember that you will be receiving super fresh SEASONAL produce."

Vegetarians and omnivores are welcome!

Kira Kinney at blondykinney@yahoo.com or 845-417-1543.

Evolutionary OrganicsC.S.A.Community Supported Agriculture

Liberty View Farm Stand!

Right off the side of our farm house...

Eat

Healthybee

Happy

Farmer Rene'

Farmer Billiam

Some of our veggies

"I've been working on some still

lifes in the morning. It's the only

time right now when Is quiet

enough to do some

uninterrupted work."

"I like waking up

early and painting, it

sets the day up

nicely."

A traditional

painter stuck in a

post-modern world.

Master Painter and Educator Les

Castellanos offers year-round private instruction in painting and drawing. Mr.Castellanos was born in Peru and joined his family in New York at the age of eleven. He gratuated from The School of Visual Arts with an

Illustration degree in 1994. He has received awards from the

Art Students League, The Society of Illustrators, and The Art Director's Club.

In 1996 he was a Recipient of the Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation

Award which allowed him to enroll

in Graduate school . During that time, Mr. Castellanos was a guest instructor at The School for the

Visual Arts and was also part of an arts program for children at P.S. 22 funded in part by the New York Academy of Figurative Art, where he completed his Masters Degree.

Hudson Valley ArtistLes Castellanos

New Paltz New York

Sainsbury's opens doors on "Honybee Hotels"

Supermarket chain warns protecting bee population will prove essential to UK

farming supply chain The race to be seen as the UK's greenest supermarket took a

somewhat bizarre twist last week when Sainsbury's announced that it is to set up

a network of " bee hotels" across London to help reverse the decline in the

population of solitary bees. The company said it has appointed bee expert Robin

Dean to install and maintain a network of small-scale "hotels" at 38 stores across

the capital.

The supermarket added that the initiative would not only help to address

biodiversity loss, it could also provide a boost to the production of the fruit and

vegetables upon which the firm is reliant. "Bees are the unsung heroes of the food

chain, as most fresh fruit and veg depends on bees for pollination," explained Dean.

"We hope that by setting these bee hotels up at a network of stores across the city,

we'll be able to help rejuvenate the bee population, and learn more about why the

population has decreased so dramatically over the past few years."

The scheme is part of a wider initiative designed to help restore bee populations,

which has also seen the supermarket work with farmers to sow a seed mix

designed to help support bumblebees and other insects. Neil Sachdev, Sainsbury's

commercial director, said there was a long-term commercial motive for the

initiative. "We recognise that if we are to continue to sell fresh British produce in

the long term, we are going to have to look at the problem of the declining bee

population and do our bit to help solve the problem," he said.

"When we've gained an understanding of how well the bee hotels work in these

stores, we might well consider making them a standard feature of Sainsbury's

supermarkets nationwide."

The Ulster County Beekeepers embrace a natural approach to

honeybee care. We nurture bees and beekeepers, as well as advocate

for public awareness and a shift in environmental policy to keep our

pollinators and our earth healthy and diverse.

They meet the first Monday of most months

@ Rosendale Community Center.

7 - 9 pm

Coffee and mingling at 6:30

1055 Rt 32, Rosendale

Ulster County Beekeepers' Association

New York City Beekeepers Association, a Hive for the Urban

Beekeepers of Gotham City

We are a small group of beekeepers, bee enthusiasts, and honey lovers

who live, work and pollinate in the greatest city in the world, and who

happen to share a love for the humble honeybee and her delicious

doings.

The mission of the NYCBA is to provide our membership with a

medium for sharing knowledge and mutual interest in beekeeping, and

to educate and promote the benefits of beekeeping to the world, in a

forum of friendship and fun, and to do so safely and responsibly in an

urban environment.

Whether you are a beekeeper with 10,000 colonies or you just like

honey in your tea, you are welcome to join our hive.

Whitney Haddard

sweetpandco@aol.com

(845) 239-5131

Full Moon Farm

Paul Colucci and Laura Watson

PO Box 231

Gardiner, NY 12525

Phone: 845-255-5602

Fax: 845-255-3538

The Rhinebeck Farmers Market is located in

the Municipal Parking Lot on East Market St

in the Village of Rhinebeck, 12572

A couple weeks ago, McDonald's, France, released a gay-friendly commercial that encouraged

patrons to "come as you are." The ad, which created a lot of buzz (mostly in America, where it

wasn't -- and as we learn below, won't be -- aired), got a reception from McDonald's execs in

America that was colder than day-old fries.

The Chicago Tribune recently interviewed Don Thompson, the Chief of Operations at McDonald's,

and has him saying:

"[A]t McDonald's, there are core values we stand for and the world is getting much closer. So

we have a lot of conversations. We're going to make some mistakes at times. (We talk) about

things that may have an implication in one part of the world and may be the cultural norm in

another part of the world. And those are things that, yes, we're going to learn from. But, you're

right, that commercial won't show in the United States."

In response to Thompson's comments, the National Gay and Lesbian Chamber of Commerce --

the largest GLBT business group in the country with 1.4 million businesses -- has severed

their relationship with McDonald's, writing in a letter:

Barring a significant change in policy on the part of McDonald's, please consider this letter as

official notice that the NGLCC will not accept future support or membership by McDonald's or

any of its subsidiaries. Additionally, please note that we will answer any questions about this

communication, the past relationship between our organizations or any other questions by

members of the NGLCC, the media or other interested parties with nothing less than factual and

accurate information based on our communications and experiences with McDonald's and its

representatives.

We strongly believe that McDonald's plan to

distance itself from LGBT and other diverse

business segments, coupled with the release of

the French TV ad, is ill advised and counter to

the spirit of good business and sound ethics. We

sincerely hope that McDonald's will reconsider

its position and that the company will again

show its support for LGBT people, our families

and our businesses -- not just where it is

politically expedient, but around the globe.

Have it your way you clown!

"I have not eaten there in years and never will again!" BvR

The Queens Galley is a 501 ( c) 3 not for profit organization that

provides awareness, education, relief and prevention of food insecurity in

America. The Queens Galley supports, creates and implements programs

dedicated to the affordable nutritional education of children, families and

seniors.

Soup Kitchen

The Queens Galley soup kitchen is open

every day of the year, serving breakfast,

lunch and dinner to anyone seeking a

meal. Each meal is prepared from

scratch with the assistance of volunteer

chefs, culinary students and

professionals as well as dedicated

community members. The Queens Galley

soup kitchen enjoys a wonderful rapport

with our local farms. We are expecially

grateful to Migliorelli farms, Phillies

Bridge farm project, Hearty Roots, RSK

farms, Bread Alone, Saulpaugh farm and

Liberty View Farm for their generosity

during the growing season.

Meals served:

July 2007 5,974

May 2010 11,152

Volunteers are always welcome! We

begin cooking each day at 7:00am

and continue through 7:00pm.

There are openings for help during

meal prep and service as well as

openings after hours for clean up

projects. Food drives and

fundraisers are also welcomed at

any time!

Open house

180 Horsenden Road

New Paltz

Sunday June 27th

1-4 PM.

Route 299 West to a right on North Putt

Corner's Road to end. Turn left

onto Horsenden Road (3/10 ths of a mile),

home on the left.

From Route 32 North coming from the

Village, turn right onto Horsenden Road

to 180.

Call Westwood Metes & Bounds Realtor Helen Coyle Bergstein 845 803 2298

They Speak Geek!

"I had computer

problems a few weeks

ago and these guys

blew me away with

their service!"

Tell them Billiam sent you.

10 Main Street, Suite 421

New Paltz, NY 12561

845.255.0139

Dear Reader,

As you know, Liberty View has always provided our newsletter

-- and now our newsMagazine! -- free of charge.

We love to inspire community action (and hopefully, you) with

its content, providing original home-grown stories,

great ideas and building awareness and belief that it really is

all about community. And we will continue to do so.

It is our pleasure to provide this platform to cultivate the many

good things that can and do happen and, it is our honor to

cross-pollinate and through our work, help others grow. I

receive several calls a day asking for help in many ways both

large and small.

That is why, while we will continue to offer Liberty View free of

charge, we also will warmly welcome voluntary monetary

contributions from you, to help us grow and evolve so that we

may help others grow as well. It's the gift that keeps giving.

If you care to contribute, we suggest just $1.00 per month. A

little goes a long, long way.

Meanwhile we'll keep digging up great articles from and about

Mother Earth and get word to you on important issues.

When we all help in our own little way, we really make good

things happen!

Thank you for your support!

Libertyviewfarm.Biz for more info.