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June Fruition Showcase

Are you one of the 600+ viewers who saw the June Fruition Local Food Showcase online? It’s an amazing time of year for food grown or made in our region and our livestream shines a spotlight on three unique food producers each month.

The June edition featured Daniel Martin of Martin’s Farmstand in Potsdam, Matt Martin of M & M Eggs in Massena, and Alicia & Josh Taillon of The Blue House in Madrid.

Martin’s Farmstand

Daniel and Mendy Martin started with a you-pick berry patch in 1998 and now, 20+ years later, has a full complement of items from their homegrown vegetables to meat, maple and more sourced from other area growers they know and trust. In our conversation, Daniel elegantly explained how a food system only works if both the growers AND the eaters are dedicated to each other. We created a snippet of his interview. Learn more about their family business here.

Visit Martin’s for a well-stocked local food shopping experience.
Martin’s grow the most perishable crops on site, such as strawberries and lettuce so they are at their freshest, while sourcing from other growers to increase their selection at the stand.
M & M Eggs

“When we buy birds we look for some of the best flocks in the United States and get the best genetics we possibly can,” shares Matt Martin. M & M Eggs’ pride and passion is conserving chicken breeds that are in danger of disappearing Read more June Fruition Showcase

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May Fruition Showcase

We live in a vast rural county, larger than the states of Delaware and Rhode Island. In a place this spread out, sometimes it takes a while to know who is doing what. There’s a brand new way to learn more about agriculture in our area and the stories behind our area’s food businesses.

In addition to this blog, just launched in May 2021, the Extension Local Foods team is bringing the farmers and food businesses right to your computer screen with a new livestream called the Fruition Local Food Showcase. We are passionate about connecting consumers with the people who grow or sell food items available in St. Lawrence County.

The showcase features three new people every month, who have their chance in the spotlight for a 15 minute interview. Community members tune in on YouTube or Facebook, where it’s livestreamed and also saved as a recording to view later.  The program gives viewers a unique opportunity to learn directly from the people who run these businesses about what drives them, what’s new this season, and how to access and best use their products.

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