Being from Upstate New York I usually pass by farms, and dairy production places and even a meat packing plant quite frequently. So this usually makes me want to eat more cheese, with a nice piece of meat. Upstate New York has a lot of open fields, so a lot of farmers are able to successful raise cattle, and even own quite a lot of land for different type of crops. So having access to locally produced food is actually fairly easy for me. Most stores sell the product of local farmers and plants.
One draw back from living in the North Country is that we have long winters. So farmers are really only able to grow for around four months out of the year, if they are lucky. Even when the spring and summer time comes, you never know when farmers will be able to actually start planting crops. The weather around my area is so unpredictable it could change in a flash of an eye. But with having so many open and flat lands, they usually are able to still make enough crops to help support the local communities. A major crop that is grown around here is corn, you could go from town to town, and you will have a high chance of passing by a corn field. Corn is a perfect crop to be grown around the area, as our land just suits it so well.
Another aspect I love about being from upstate New York is their is a good handful of farmer markets around the area. So getting fresh produce isn’t that hard to come by. I do wish we could have more food trucks, but the really only food truck around my area is just a burrito truck. Which is kind of sad because I really enjoy food truck food, as I have noticed that they typically always have local produces and nothing ever is processed food. Upstate New York isn’t really lacking any type of meat or fish, we can fish our food all year, and we can hunt our food almost all year as well. So finding or buying a piece of meat that is local isn’t hard at all. Which would be a different story for a city area, as they don’t have as much forest, and lakes as we do.
Bushati. “The Unique Foods of Upstate New York.” Times Union, Times Union, 27 Oct. 2016, http://www.timesunion.com/living/article/The-unique-foods-of-upstate-New-York-10417933.php.
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