'NY Times' Features Cutchogue Farm, North Fork Agriculture

While the agricultural diversity of the North Fork is old hat to most locals, the New York Times last week featured a Cutchogue farm that's taken a route unique to the area despite all the different kind of crops and livestock - Icelandic sheep.

The piece focuses on Tom Geppel and Carol Festa - a Mattituck couple who grew inspiration to make cheese after a trip to Italy last year - and states the following: "The new sheep farm is the latest of a growing number of diverse livestock operations on the North Fork, an area once best known for potatoes and, in recent years, for farm activities like “pick-your-own” orchards and fields."

Aquebogue's Goodale Farms hopped onto the dairy car earlier this year and  in October for its plain chevre and unflavored feta cheese in the American Dairy Goat Association's National Convention.

Read the full article about Geppel, Festa, and East End agriculture in the Times here.