Attractions
60 exhibitor booths
Food and refreshments
Silent Auction

Children's Activities
Baked Goods
Pictures with Santa

Changing Times was the general store and post office for our small town more than 100 years ago. Today Changing Times B&B and our shop Almost Antiques, offer our guests an eclectic mix of the past with modern amenities of the present. Stay in one of our beautiful guest rooms and become a part of our history. With our convenient and central location, we’re sure to become your country home away from home whenever you visit the beautiful Hudson Valley area. Press blue button for more about antique shopping at Changing Times.

Attractions
Art and Crafts (local artisans)
Jewelry
Live Music

Products
Baked Goods
Granola
Homemade Soups
Local Art & Crafts
Local Dairy Products
Local (Jams, Jellies, Pickled Veggies, Salsa)
Local Seasonal Produce

Press blue button for dates and time for pick-your-own fruit availability of peaches, cherries, and apples. Early varieties include: Honey Crisp, MacIntosh, Acey Macs, Jonagold, Cortland, Empire. Soon after varieties will include: Red Delicious, Golden Delicious, Macoun, Fortune. Later varieties will include: Fuji, Mutsu and Cameo. Also available will be Pears (Bartlett & Bosc), Pumpkins & Gourds, Honey, Apple Cider and Spiced Mulled Cider Mix.

Attractions
Beautiful orchards and ponds

U-Pick
Apple Picking
Black Sour Cherries & Red Sour Cherry Picking
Sweet Cherry Picking
Peaches Picking
Pumpkin Picking

There are three Vacation Rental Cottages that have the amenities of home. The units are outfitted with a bathroom with toilet and shower, a kitchen with hot and cold running water, refrigerator, stove, microwave, cooking and eating utensils, enclosed/screened-in back porch facing the water, a picnic table and fire ring. Press blue button for photos, and more about Lake Taghkanic State Park.

Things To Do
Beach
Biking
Boat Launch sites
Boat Rentals
Cabins & Campsites
Fishing
Food
Hiking
Hunting
Pavilions
Picnic Tables
Playground & Playing Field(s)
Showers
Sledding, Snowmobiling & Snowshoeing
Tent/Trailer Sites
Vacation Rentals

Winter Activities
Cross-country Skiing
Ice Fishing
Ice Skating

"Van Buren was preeminent among the second generation of American politicians. As eighth President, the first born under the U.S. flag, he continued building the Democratic Party he helped organize. His administration faced daunting challenges: The nation suffered a severe and lingering economic depression. Crises with Great Britain, Spain, and the Republic of Texas taxed his diplomatic skills.

"Most troubling throughout his political career was the issue of extending slavery into new states. Van Buren opposed extension while still trying to cultivate a coalition of northern and southern interests. The issue divided the nation and his party and foreshadowed the whirlpool of frustration, anger and violence which was to consume the country in the 1860's."

You can even sign-up for TRANSalert , email . . as part of the Transportation Regional Advisory Network System, the New York State Thruway Authority offers an email service to its customers to inform them of major unscheduled incidents that may affect their travel on the Thruway.

Also available are travel Plazas by name and location with a link to additional restaurant and service information.

On the Traveler Information page, press the National Weather Service button for weather maps including: warnings & forecasts, graphical forecasts, national maps, radar, and air quality.

We specialize in certified organic produce. We provide produce from early May through mid to late November. We distribute our produce through our CSA, local markets, and special orders. We also offer a diverse line of herbal teas and organic herbal products.

In Red Oak Farm's CSA Program, members pay at the beginning of the season for a weekly installment of ever-changing, in-season produce from our farm. It runs from mid-May through mid-November, and in the course of a season provides over 40 different types of delicious, fresh-picked produce. Installment payments or other agreed upon payment schedules are also possible. We also offer an extended share option starting in mid-November which runs into the winter, offering an array of roots and other storage and cold-hardy crops.

Organic CSA Products
Arugula
Beets, Broccoli
Carrots, Cucumber, Garlic
Green Beans, Kale, Onions, Potatoes, Peas
Salad Greens, Spinach, Swiss Chard,
Tomatoes, Turnips and more

Currants
Grapes
Raspberries
Strawberries

Eggs
Flowers
Herbal Products (Herbal Teas)

"Roxbury Farm is a community supported farm. We grow vegetables, herbs, and grass fed pork, lamb, and beef for over 1000 shareholders representing over 1200 families in four communities--Columbia County, the Capital Region, Westchester County and Manhattan - on 300 acres in Kinderhook, New York.

"Our farmland has been taken off the market, permanently. It can never be bought or sold again. It can only be leased, and only by a farmer who commits to farming it. The lease is lifelong and inheritable, and the fee is based on the agricultural value of the land, not the market value. Affordable housing for the farmer and farm employees is also protected in perpetuity. Even in the rapidly rising country home market two and a half hours from New York City, this land and housing will always be available and affordable to a farmer.

"Roxbury Farm is a biodynamic farm. A biodynamic farmer allows a great diversity of living organism on his or her farm to thrive as those systems have proven to be most efficient in harboring life and storing energy. Every aspect of the farm makes its own unique contribution to the whole. When a farm is biodynamic it is transformed from a factory, producing food and generating profit, to a being that has its own characteristics with associated strengths and weaknesses that are honored."

CSA Products
June through December

Radish, Scallions (Green Onion)
Kale, Beets, Tatsoi, Snow Peas
Sugar Snap Peas, Parsley
Cilantro, Broccoli, Broccoli Raab
Summer Squash
Zucchini, Cucumber
Cabbage, Swiss Chard, Tomatos
Baby Carrot, Peppers, Eggplant
Sweet Corn, Basil, Onion
Potato, Winter Squash
Cauliflower, Carrot
Collards, Cabbage, Sweet Potato
Popcorn

Grassfed Meat
Grassfed lamb and beef and pastured pork can be ordered by the cut and delivered to your CSA site along with your vegetable share.

We are members of the Northeast Organic Farming Association of New York's Farmer's Pledge in place of becoming certified organic."

"We strive to provide our animals with environments that best suit the instinctual needs of the animal. Our lamb is all grass-fed and our pigs are pastured and fed organic grain. Our beef is also 100% grass-fed."

"Roxbury Farm is a community supported farm. We grow vegetables, herbs, and grass-fed pork, lamb, and beef for over 1000 shareholders representing over 1200 families in four communities: Columbia County, the Capital Region, Westchester County and Manhattan . . .

Products
Grass-fed pork, lamb, beef
Herbs
Vegetables

Samascott Orchards offers a large selection of fruits and vegetables for you to pick. Press blue button for picking dates for fruits and vegetables.

Question: Is pick-your-own less expensive than pre-picked?
Absolutely! Not only will you save money picking your own fruits and vegetables, you will get a healthy dose of fresh air, sun and exercise.

U-Pick
Apple Picking
Berry Picking (strawberries, cherries, blueberries, raspberries)Grape Picking
Peach Picking
Plum Picking
Pumpkin Picking Vegetable Picking (rhubarb, peas, beans, tomatoes, peppers, summer squash, winter squash)

Police Station Address
Columbia County Sheriff's Office
85 Industrial Tract
Hudson, NY 12534

Contact
Sheriff: David W. Harrison, Jr.

About
The Office of the Sheriff is the oldest office under the system of common law in the United States and is an integral part of government in the State of New York. The position of Sheriff in Columbia County dates back to at least 1772 when Phillip J. Livingston was appointed to the position. In 1822, Samuel E. Hudson was the first Sheriff to be elected to serve a term of three years. Since then, the Sheriff has been an elected official with the current term being for four years.

As the oldest constitutional law enforcement officer of the county, the Sheriff is charged with maintaining the peace in all municipalities, villages, and townships within his/her jurisdiction, as well as the care and custody of persons pending court action. The Sheriff's Office is unique in that it is one agency which provides four enforcement functions . . . law enforcement, corrections, security services and civil enforcement . . .

The Columbia County Sheriff's Office is a state accredited law enforcement agency . . . The men and women within the four divisions of the Office provide a wide range of services to County residents. By New York State County Law, Deputy Sheriffs must reside in Columbia County. The Sheriffs Office is a civil service agency. Full time employees are required to pass a civil service test and be ranked on a list approved by New York State and administered by the county Civil Service Commission.

Columbia County is located in the Hudson Valley of New York State between the Hudson River and the Massachusetts and Connecticut state lines. It is approximately 125 miles north of New York City, 30 miles south of Albany and 100 miles west of Boston, MA. . . . Columbia County has roughly 30 miles of Hudson River waterfront along its west border . . .

Press blue button for up-to-date information about the Corrections Division, Civil Enforcement Division, Security Services, Community Public Services, Victim Information, Crime Tips, Sex Offenders, and more about the Columbia County Sheriff's Office.

The season begins in mid June with cherries, followed by raspberries, peaches and nectarines and apples such as Gala, Acey Mac, Honey Crisp, Fuji, Royal Cortland, Lady Apple, and Macoun. Press blue button for picking schedules.

U-Pick
Apple Picking
Berry Picking
Cherry Picking
Nectarine Picking
Peach Picking
Raspberry Picking

U-Pick
Apple Picking
Blueberry Picking
Raspberry Picking
Strawberry Picking