(Hubbardsville, NY – Aug. 7, 2013) Standing at the Endless Trails Farm, U.S. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand will push for passage of the Senate Farm Bill, which includes priorities to help specialty crops, expand markets for farmers, and increase the availability of nutritious locally-grown food for consumers.
Gillibrand will highlight provisions that provide more secure funding for critically important programs that support family farms, expand new farming opportunities, invest in the local agriculture economy, and assist consumers by improving access to healthy foods at direct and retail markets.
Endless Trails Farm is 340 acres owned by Pam and Dave Williams since across from the assembly area to the Brookfield Trail System where they raise grass fed beef cattle. The Williams family focus on agri-tourism, offering horse-drawn wagon and sleigh rides and a family-style dinner featuring the farm’s grass-fed beef. They are also part of the Side Hill Farmer’s Cooperative, an organizing partner of the Growing Upstate Food Hub project that is currently under development to establish a shared-use, value-added processing facility for Madison County farmers in Canastota.
The Growing Upstate Food Hub will provide farmers such as the Williams’, with access to new and viable markets, shared business services to help farm businesses grow and diversify, as well as aggregation and distribution services of local farm products.
The project is currently expanding farmers’ access to local markets through the Side Hill Farmers’ retail storefront in Manlius.