New Economy News | March 2023 | |
Adirondack Buyer Days Kicks Off Next Week | |
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Shopkeepers and retail buyers: we hope you'll join us and over 50 artisan makers for Adirondack Buyer Days — ANCA’s annual wholesale gift show.
Meet new vendors and shop new products at this year’s show. This business-to-business event showcases a variety of curated products made by local artisans — something for everyone who enters your store!
Sneak a peek at some of this year's products in our photo album. Buyer registration is free.
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Connect with long-time Buyer Days vendors like LionheArt Graphics and up-and-coming artisan entrepreneurs from northern New York and New England. Register today:
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Adirondack Diversity Initiative | | |
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Nonviolent Communication Workshop
At this evening workshop presented by ADI in partnership with SUNY Canton, SUNY Potsdam and Paul Smith’s College, attendees will learn about the technology of nonviolent communication. Participants will learn how to make nonjudgemental observations, expand vocabularies around feelings and needs, and make requests to get needs met without violence.
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Emerging Stewards Experience the Adirondacks
ADI’s Emerging Stewards Program — including our Alternative Spring Break and Claiming Space partnerships — offer students from BIPOC communities a variety of recreational and cultural experiences in the Adirondacks.
A recent six-day Alternative Spring Break at Camp Dudley in Westport (photo below) provided activities including a challenge course, snowshoeing, visiting Rising Moon Yak Farm and a service learning project at an Amish maple sugaring farm. Students also gained a historical perspective of different cultures in the Adirondacks.
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Students from Gates Chili SAVVY program, Rochester, participate in ADI and SUNY ESF Timbuctoo Institute's Claiming Space program in February. | |
ADI partners with SUNY Potsdam’s Division of Diversity Equity & Inclusion Center for Diversity to offer the Alternative Spring Break program and SUNY ESF's Timbuctoo Institute to provide experiences through the Claiming Space program. | |
Panel: Equity and Inclusion in the Adirondacks
On March 10, ADI Director Tiffany Rea-Fisher was a panelist for Equity and Inclusion in and Around the Adirondack Park, hosted by the NextGen Committee of the Lake George Land Conservancy. The panel focused on inequities in access and enjoyment in and around the Adirondack Park and discussed how we can ensure the benefits of land conservation are shared with all members of our community, what we can do to work towards a safer park, and more.
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Small Business Opportunities | |
Free Marketing Workshops
ANCA, CITEC Business Solutions, and the SUNY Canton SBDC present a free, virtual workshop series for small businesses and nonprofits interested in launching, updating, or growing their marketing efforts.
Attend one or more workshops to learn how a marketing plan could grow your clientele and strengthen your bottom line.
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Marketing Goals & Concepts: Tuesday, March 28, 2023, 12:00 - 1:00 p.m.
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Build Your Marketing Plan: Tuesday, April 4, 2023, 12:00 - 1:00 p.m.
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Digital Marketing Basics: Tuesday, April 11, 2023, 12:00 - 1:00 p.m.
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Building Welcoming & Belonging at Work
Learn how to create a space of welcoming and belonging in your workplace to attract and retain diverse talent, and understand the needs of your expanding clientele. This entry-point exploration offered through ANCA CPR and ADI will use different methodologies — including nonviolent communication — to learn how to better articulate feelings, needs, requests, and boundaries.
Free and open to all, including small business owners and staff, aspiring entrepreneurs and nonprofit personnel.
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Featured Business for Sale: Stillwater Hotel
Where the road ends, the fun begins! Located in Lowville, NY, Stillwater Hotel sits on the shores of the Stillwater Reservoir and is a destination for a summer drive or winter ride.
Learn about this and other available businesses in the North Country by visiting our list of featured businesses for sale.
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$558K Grant Funds Agroforestry Project
ANCA announced this month that we received a $558,000 federal grant to support climate-smart agroforestry projects on small farms in northern New York. The USDA Natural Resource Conservation Service (NRCS) Partnerships for Climate-Smart Commodities grant will help farmers, including North Country Creamery (pictured) diversify their operations while implementing farming practices that improve land, water and air quality across the region.
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Changing the world one compost machine at a time
Learn about Compost for Good's background, current work and mission in North Country Public Radio's Mitch Teich's conversation with team members John Culpepper, Katie Culpepper and ANCA's Jen Perry. The team speaks about the environmental benefits of composting, as well as the economic opportunities of community-scale composting with drum composting machines.
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Federal Farm Loan Workshop Offered in Malone
The USDA Farm Service Agency (FSA) will host a workshop at its office in Malone, NY about various loan options offered by FSA as well as how to get started with the agency.
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What: FSA Loan Workshop
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When: Friday, March 31, 11:00 a.m.
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Where: Franklin County USDA Service Center, Malone, NY
Call 518-483-2850 Ext. 2 to register.
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Clean Energy Conference is Back!
This year ANCA is partnering with the Mohawk Valley Clean Energy Team to convene stakeholders and innovators as we explore incentives and opportunities, as well as challenges, related to state and federal policies.
With a focus on elevating local interests and marginalized voices, we will explore how we can work together to meet climate goals while advancing a clean energy economy that strengthens our businesses and communities.
What: ANCA Clean Energy Conference
When: June 1-2, 2023
Where: Irish Cultural Center of the Mohawk Valley, Utica, NY
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Grants for Food Waste and Compost Projects
The USDA NRCS is offering grants to support municipalities and school districts interested in entering into cooperative agreements to develop and implement municipal compost and food waste reduction plans in rural, urban and suburban communities. Application deadline is June 15, 2023.
Contact ANCA's Jennifer Perry at jperry@adirondack.org for more information or for grant submission assistance
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More on Community-scale Composting
Lewis County has launched an organics working group made up of members of the Development Authority of the North Country, the Tug Hill Commission, the Lewis Co. Planning Department, and Julian Mangano (pictured) — owner of Della Terra Farm and ANCA SOIL Loan Fund recipient. The group will explore options to earn points through the Climate Smart Communities program by creating an organics management plan, buying collection bins for residents, and requiring food scrap collection in municipal buildings.
If your community is interested in CSC certification or wants to learn more about organics recycling actions that can lead to certification, contact Jennifer Perry: jperry@adirondack.org.
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Clean Energy Communities
Congratulations to the following communities who are earning credit toward clean energy project grants through the NYSERDA's Clean Energy Communities Program while saving money and greenhouse gas emissions!
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Franklin County authorized Open C-PACE Financing
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Town of Champlain completed Energy Code Enforcement Training
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Town of Fort Covington completed Energy Code Enforcement Training
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Town of Harrietstown completed Benchmarking - Advanced Reporting
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Town of Westport completed Benchmarking - Advanced Reporting
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Town of Westport completed Clean Heating & Cooling demo for installing a heat pump in their town hall
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Town of Westport added a fully electric Chevy Bolt to their municipal fleet
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Village of Champlain completed Energy Code Enforcement Training
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Welcome to ANCA!
We are happy to welcome two new staff to ANCA this month:
Mahala Nyberg has joined the ANCA CPR team in the role of Program Navigator and is helping small business access free and low-cost services to help them build strength and stability.
In his role as Clean Energy Communications Coordinator, Craig Basford will support the communications and outreach needs of our new North Country Clean Energy Program, which aims to bring clean energy and energy efficiency information, programs and incentives to residents across the region.
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ICYMI: Here's What We're Reading | |
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Check out our jobs page for openings with member and partner organizations and regional nonprofits:
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Communications-Education Coordinator: Adirondack Center for Loon Conservation
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State Land Planning Student Assistant/Intern: Adirondack Park Agency
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Education Assistant: Adirondack Watershed Institute
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Communication and Engagement Coordinator: GardenShare
Have an opening you want to promote? Send a web link to jobs@adirondack.org.
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Build a Resilient Regional Economy
ANCA members are growing the region's New Economy by building strong, resilient and equitable systems for local food, clean energy and small businesses. Become an ANCA member today.
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