While it's been a few years since I've been up around Malone, I was surprised to see how much of the land immediately around the village of Malone is good soils used for crop production, mostly silage and hay-ledge for dairy. Get north and west of Malone, you have more wetlands and forested areas whose shallow sandy soils have been depleted both due to historical agriculture practices and timber cutting for the iron-smelting industry at the turn of the history.

Near the limestone mines in Greenport.