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Thematic Map: Before the Sprawl in Delmar

12 Reasons Why

Pigs, while smelly are pretty awesome livestock when it comes to meat on a small homestead. I'm kind of a bit obessessed with them but so is the internet. 

Thematic Map: African Americans By Election District in Albany County

How to feed your pigs for almost $0.00 !

Grinding your own field corn seems like a good way to save money but I think I would find a way to run the corn sheller mechanically as turning it seems like a lot of hard and unnecessary work. That home-made corn crib though is pretty neat and sounds like it works well for storage and drying of field corn. I'm actually very impressed by this small scale homestead operation. 

Map: Oakley Corners State Forest

Change in Agricultural Land Use, 2001-2019

While tillage is up in the Lake Ontario plains and northern Finger Lakes due to more dairy, the decline in dairy in other parts of state means a lot of farm land that was once cultivated is now used for hay and grazing for beef cattle.

Change in Agricultural Land Use, 2001-2019

Map: Severence Hill Trail