SAGES

Thursday was JAM PACKED with SAGES activites! After a day's hard work pressing cider, Station students, staff, and faculty gathered together for a Thanksgiving feast. Good food. Great people.

Yesterday was our second cider press of the academic year, just in time for Thanksgiving!
Thanks to all the Station members who donated their time to press and bottle cider.
And be sure to pick up a jug or two! All money from cider sales goes to fund scholarships for high school seniors from area schools seeking higher education in agricultural sciences.

Getting ready for another year of cider production! We got a chance to enjoy the beautiful NYS fall weather the other day and picked two and a half bins of Empires and Jonagolds. Looking forward to turning these into fresh, delicious apple cider early next week!

Today was the 3rd annual Under-appreciated Vegetable Cook-off. This was the year of the Beetdown! Here were our entries (clockwise from top):
Sweet Potato and Beet Bake (Mighty Main Dish winner)
Beet Hummus with Goat Cheese (Smackdown Side Dish winner)
Beet Chocolate Cupcakes
Beet Surprise Chocolate Cake
Beet and Lemon Panna Cotta (Daring Dessert winner)
Beet Crumble
Beetballs
Beet Sliders (center)

Thank-you to all our participants and congratulations to the winners!

We took advantage of the unseasonably warm weather to do another round of apple picking. These lovelies will be transformed into delicious cider during our November press- just in time for Thanksgiving!

SAGES Halloween Party: great costumes and even greater people!

More apples for cider!

We picked our first round of apples for cider on Monday! Our next picking will next week Friday (Oct. 23) and our first cider press will be later this month. Get ready for cider!

Our own Dr. Susan Brown with Dean Dr. Kathryn Boor and NYS Senator Michael Nozzolio announcing a $600,000 grant for the purchase of a Hiperbaric 55 pressure processor. This machine will be the newest jewel in the crown of the Station's cutting-edge research.
Thanks, Senator, Dean and Director!

And we have cider! The first bottles are already coming out.