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Growing Monroe


While there’s not much green around MCC these days, our Ag guy Bob King found some spring flowers over the weekend. Albeit, he had to travel to Long Island to find them!

In case we didn’t believe him, Bob snapped a few images while touring Jamesport Gardens, which houses about a dozen greenhouses for its retail business. Shown in the image is Jamesport owner Dave McLarin.

The tour was part of a knowledge gathering trip that Bob took with Robert Colby, a local farmer and volunteer to the Agriculture and Farmland Protection Board who serves on the external advisory committee for the Agriculture and Life Sciences Institute at MCC. The two are pulling together information on tactics for creating and managing a campaign for consumers to support the local agriculture industry. Efforts are under way to begin a “Grow Monroe” program. While touring four agriculture production facilities, Bob learned of the great successes reaped from the “Grown on Long Island” campaign.

The tour also included visits to:

Vanderwettering Greenhouses in Riverhead (with Nate Corwin), North Fork Potato Chips in Cutchogue (with Marty and Carol Sidor) and A Taste of the North Fork in Cutchogue (with Geri Woodhouse).




Dianne E McConkey
College and Community Relations
03/24/2008