Connecting People + Place
Celebrating Pershing Avenue Farm’s First Harvest
Residents of Poughkeepsie’s Northside neighborhood turned out in force to enjoy a Harvest Fest at the Pershing Avenue Neighborhood Farm + Gardens on Oct. 2, 2021. The event celebrated the first successful season in the community gardens — where local residents grew...
Birdability Aims to Make Nature More Accessible to All
At age 14, Virginia Rose fell off a horse and injured her spinal cord. She’s used a wheelchair ever since. Rose discovered birding nearly two decades ago and has made it her mission to introduce people with mobility challenges to...
#HudsonInspired: Artist Matthew Friday Considers Water, Waste
Not many artists think deeply about ecology and water, but artist-writer-educator Matthew Friday has done exactly that in multidisciplinary works such as DUMP!, Stories of Water and Waste, and more. Friday credits his interest in ecology to a childhood spent...
Hiking by Art
A wall-mounted phone with a rotary dial and a curly cord. A decade or two ago, an Appalachian Trail hiker like Dan Foeller could pretty safely have bet it was just another pay phone. Passing it earlier this summer, though,...
#HudsonInspired: Artist Arnie Zimmerman Worked With Valley’s Bricks and Clay
In the 19th and 20th centuries, the Hudson Valley was the largest brickmaking district on the planet. Its metrics were stunning: It employed more than 10,000 people across about 120 brickyards, producing an estimated billion bricks a year. Due to...
#HudsonInspired: Artist Jean Shin Reimagines Fallen Trees
Frederic Church and his fellow painters of the Hudson River School saw nature in a beautiful, romantic light. Contemporary artists can’t, says Jean Shin: “We don’t have the ability to romanticize nature because of climate change.”Shin, who was born in...
Newburgh Street-Tree Planting Aims to Restore the City’s Healthy, Shady Canopy
In May, the residents of South Miller Street in Newburgh gathered to plant, to care for — and really, to better understand — a line of new trees that now dot the block. For some residents, it was an opportunity...
Exploring Green Careers: SERENA PADILLA, Garden Educator
The statistics are impressive: by 2030, more than 24 million new jobs could be created globally by shifting to a greener economy, according to the International Labour Organization. But what actually are those jobs, and what do they take? La Voz...