What’s Up North Blog

*Thank you to our partners at Adirondack Harvest and contributing writer Rebekah Pierce for this guest blog. To view the original posting, visit Adirondack Harvest's website.   By Rebekah Pierce, Contributing Writer for Adirondack Harvest A head of lettuce might...

by Ethan Boecher*, Summer Research Fellow This summer I found myself sitting with a friend, not at a desk, not in a meeting, just talking, rattling off statistics about the North Country. Population decline. Aging business owners. A quality of...

By Zach Hobbs, ANCA Deputy Director When ANCA launched our new Strategic Plan, Building Shared Prosperity earlier this year, we made a very small change to our logo, replacing our previous tagline, “Growing the New Economy” with “A North Country...

by Cody Douglas, Communications Consultant, Compost for Good Most people don’t realize how much food they throw away every day. Too often, we throw away leftovers no one eats, fruits and vegetables that spoil, or pieces of food that could...

By Audrey Schwartzberg, Communications Director During my nearly ten years at ANCA, I have rarely had the occasion to dig into the organization’s vast archives. Digitized materials can be hard to locate and search, while many print documents are surely...