Ag and Markets has updated their COVID page.  You can read it all here: https://agriculture.ny.gov/coronavirus

Thank your inspector next time you see them – Ag and Markets has been working hard behind the scenes to get horticultural operations labeled as essential and back to work!

I have excerpted the section on Horticulture:

• Horticulture businesses, including greenhouse operations, nurseries, sod farms, and arborists, are now permitted to reopen statewide, in all regions. Please read the interim guidance for horticulture businesses.
• Landscaping is open statewide; permissible activities have been expanded to include the care and planting of grasses, sod, plants, shrubs, and trees and the mulching, trimming, and removal of these items for disease, safety, and public health purposes.
  • Transportation of equipment and materials necessary to meet any of the above functions and irrigation to maintain plant health is permissible.
• Gardening is open statewide; permissible activities include the cultivation of flowers, vegetables, herbs, fruit, trees, shrubs, etc., at home and community settings and locations.
• Horticulture and landscaping businesses must follow the Non-Food Related Agriculture Summary Guidelines and Read and Affirm Detailed Guidelines for Non-food Agriculture.

Also!

The $100M New York Forward Loan Fund will provide loans to small businesses, focusing on minority and women owned small businesses, that did not receive federal COVID-19 assistance.

Some updates here, too https://coronavirus.health.ny.gov/home