
Local Food

Our Farmers Match Program
Westchester Land Trust’s Farmers Network is not just a name. We have real farmers growing real food. And not only growing it, but selling it too.
We’ve asked them to tell us where their produce is available, so we can put it on this page. Here’s what we know about so far:
I&Me Farm, Bedford – Mimi Edelman and Eileen Zidi: Tanrackin Farmstand, Guard Hill Road, Bedford, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., Fridays and Saturdays. They also sell their produce to Dish Bistro & Wine Bar, Mahopac. (That’s Eileen’s son, Adrian Zidi, pictured at the farmstand, above.)
Farming 101, Newtown, Connecticut – Trout and Jennifer Gaskins: Monroe, Ct., (Fridays) and Greenwich, Ct. (Saturdays) farmers markets.
Ryder Farm, Brewster – Ryder Farm farmstand, 400 Starr Ridge Road, Brewster; Wednesdays at the Brewster Farmers Market.
Digger's East, Brewster -- Doug DeCandia: Sweet Grass Grill, Tarrytown; The Flying Pig, Mount Kisco; the Country Farmer, North Salem; farmstand at Katonah Yoga, Bedford Hills, 9 a.m.- 1 p.m., Thursdays
Amba Farms, Bedford Hills -- Liz Taggart: Sweet Grass Grill, Tarrytown; Saturdays 8 - 2 in front of Susan Lawrence's, Chappaqua.
Daisy Hill Farm Stand, Bedford -- Gwenn Brant: Farmstand at 214 West Patent Road, Fridays and Saturdays 9 - 6, Sundays 10 - 4.
Kitchawan Farm -- Linsay Cochrane: ecologically grown vegetables, herbs & flowers available for pickup at the farm on Tuesday & Friday afternoons by email order only: freshandlocal@kitchawanfarm.com
Stuart's Fruit Farm, Granite Springs Road, Granite Springs -- Betsy Stuart: farm stand open 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Stuart's sells tomatoes to the Yorktown Diner, Traditions 118 in Granite Springs, Grand Central Deli in Somers, and tomatoes and squash to the Westchester Broadway Theater.
Inaugurated in December 2009, the Farmers Network has grown to more than 100 participants, including organizations such as the Glynwood Center, the Stone Barns Center for Food and Agriculture, and Westchester County, all of whom are part of the fast-growing local food movement. With Slow Food Westchester and Mypersonalfarmer.com, we held an innovative farmers-chefs "speed meeting" in the spring. You can read a terrific account of it here.
An important part of the Farmers Network is our match program -- we try to match landless farmers with people who own land that would lend itself to farming.
In just a few months, we’ve already made five matches. Among them are Mimi Edelman and Eileen Zidi, of I&Me Farm. Mimi and Eileen work on land owned by William Louis-Dreyfus, on Wood Road, and by Bob and Beth Mancini, on Guard Hill Road, both in Bedford. Both properties are protected by Westchester Land Trust conservation easements that allow agriculture.
Another is Doug DeCandia, who is working at Ryder Farm, in Brewster. Patch.com recently published a terrific story on Doug.
To learn more, click here. Or to participate in the Farmers Network or the match program, email Eileen Hochberg, Westchester Land Trust’s director of conservation outreach, Eileen@westchesterlandtrust.org, or call her at 914 241 6346 x12.






Visitors to Westchester Wilderness Walk in early July saw a black bear within the preserve.