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FarmTown is a 40-stage clicker game where players start as farmers, and grow a mini food processing empire. Plant seeds, harvest grains, add animals, and regularly sell your goods at the town fair to raise more funds. Use your game experience to research and purchase new equipment and processes to sell your food for more. Each stage has specific goals based around how much money you must earn or which items you much create. This is a JavaScript web application which uses cross-platform mobile-friendly HTML. All modern web browsers like Microsoft Edge, Apple Safari, Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox and Opera should support it. This game works on just about any type of computing device including Microsoft Windows desktop computers, Apple OSX Mac computers, iOS powered tablets and phones like the iPad and iPhone, laptops like the Google Chromebook, and the many types of mobile phones from manufacturers like Samsung which are powered by Google Android.

Ready for some farm fresh peaches locally grown here in NJ? Our white and yellow peaches are ready to be picked with Dandee Red apples also available beginning 7/27. Cut your own sunflowers or take family photos in the flower patch. Please bring your own clippers or they are available for purchase. Grab the family and start your own pick-your-own adventure!

Hoyt Farm is open every day of the year except New Year's day, Thanksgiving day, and Christmas day

The park is open from 8:00 am to dusk - except for weekends from Memorial day through mid October when we are open from 9:00 am to dusk.

Hoyt Farm is only open to Smithtown residents ALL year round. Non-residents may only park in our lot when they are the guest of a permit holding resident and will be charged a $12 parking fee. A permit is purchased at the Smithtown Parks Department and is NOT the same as a vehicle sticker.

Since 1977, Old Town Farm has operated as a horse facility and produce farm. But in those 44 years, the city has truly grown up around us. The Bio Parks, the museums and the bike paths now surround us, all within walking distance. Our dream for OTF is to keep its farming character while adjusting to its urban location. Toward that end, we invite you to check out the various activities on this website and then think about contacting us to schedule a visit to Old Town Farm.

In this work of creative nonfiction, author Kate Benz provides an intimate look at the present-day residents of Courtland, Kansas (population 285), a town whose economy depends almost entirely on agriculture.

Courtland is a community that is unwaveringly determined to keep their corner of rural America not only alive but thriving, refusing to let challenges define or deter them. Instead, they continuously find creative ways to overcome, adapt, improve, and move forward.

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The Nanhu site is currently a tapestry of small farms and canals on the edge of Jiaxing, a city of three million. Jiaxing is uniquely positioned between Shanghai, Hangzhou, and Suzhou, and is connected to Shanghai and Hangzhou by a 20 minute ride on the high speed rail.

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Farm reform strategy: farmland reorganization and enlarged operational scale, technology integration to create product value, production optimization and investment, rural revitalization through the integration of culture and leisure

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The existing canal network includes many disconnected waterways. Dead-end canals will be removed, and the system will be reconnected to allow for better flow and circulation.

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Besides performing an important ecological function, the treatment wetlands will also be educational and recreational. Along the weirs there will be walkways inviting people to meander through the wetland area and giving a chance to observe the cleansing and filtration process.

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Stormwater run-off will be collected, stored, and cleansed through bioswales. The run-off collection and bioswales will be showcased and made evident so that people can experience the water cleansing treatment process.

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Three major parklands run east west within the development, each with distinct character. These parklands are intended to have a regional draw, and provide amenities for the surrounding neighborhoods and the greater Nanhu district.

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The northlake parkland is the most urban and active of the three parklands. The garden parkland brings a sense of the agricultural surroundings to the village core, and offers a respite from the dense urban surroundings in a garden setting.

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The ecology parkland is an extension of the treatment wetlands and features meadows, wildflower fields, and marshes. Wildlife viewing terraces, bird observatories, and shelter pavilions are placed within this ecological park.

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Sprawling megacities around the world are overtaking arable land to accommodate increased spatial demands. The larger these cities become, the further agricultural landscapes are forced away from the people they sustain. This project brings innovative hybrid agricultural and urban typologies into close dialogue at the crux of two major metropolitan cities. An infrastructural overhaul will treat heavily polluted water as it flows through the site, and will establish a new paradigm for modern agricultural living.

Agricultural land in China is often wiped clean of all previous historic or cultural significance to make way for urbanization. As the nation struggles to house the influx of urban migration, agrarian life is marginalized. However, current trends indicate that people are craving a reprieve: the health effects of industrial pollution are being felt, wealthy populations are spending money on organic food, and the intensity of massive dense cities can be crushing and overwhelming. Nanhu presents a cultural shift at the intersection of urban and agricultural life in China through the creation of a dense urban village and the retention and enhancement of existing farmland.

Nanhu is currently a tapestry of small farms and canals on the edge of Jiaxing, a city of three million people in the Yangtze Delta. Jiaxing is located between Shanghai, Hangzhou, and Suzhou, a region with a population near 80 million. A new high-speed rail line enables travel from Jiaxing to Shanghai and Hangzhou in twenty minutes and positions Nanhu to be both a bedroom community and destination for metropolitan residents seeking a break from intense urbanity.

An extensive canal network, abundance of water, flat land, and fertile soil give Nanhu potential to be a model agricultural center of food production for the surrounding mega cities. However, the site faces three major hurdles: under-utilized efficiency in agricultural land organization, a stagnant and polluted canal system, and a rural population density which is too low to be sustainable in this location in China.

The organic farm will be both a new productive agricultural job base and a source of healthy and sustainable foods. Visitors will be able to observe and appreciate food cultivation and the agricultural process. New farming products will include specialty items such as herbal medicines, fragrances, and flowers, which are products with higher monetary returns that will raise the economic profile of the modern farmer.

Agricultural endeavors range from large-scale organic specialty food production to farms that cater to tourism, family farms, and community garden plots for all to access. This diversity will attract different people and interests while forming a precedent of agricultural innovation in the region.

The success of the project depends heavily on addressing existing degraded environmental conditions by introducing treatment wetlands and reorganizing a historic canal network that will allow residents and visitors to directly engage with the water.

Once reconnected, the canals will be used for water transport by boat and the edges and banks of the canals will have pedestrian pathways that will serve as a circulation network. By cleaning the water, the entire site will be poised to meet international organic certification standards and in turn increase the financial and ecological value of the land.

Large parklands span a range of uses, from boating and strolling pavilions to viewing of fabricated and restored wildlife habitat. There will also be neighborhood parks, corridors along the canal network, and intimate gathering spaces within individual residential blocks. Smaller open spaces will serve the immediate neighborhood and provide amenities such as play fields, small plazas for gathering or exercise, and places for rest and relaxation in an outdoor setting. Through agricultural tourism and the ecological improvements explored on the site, Nanhu will become an educational attraction for the greater Shanghai region.

China needs a model to inform the process of land conversion with a sustainable and meaningful approach. Nanhu answers this pressing question by illustrating how to integrate a compact urban village with productive agricultural landscapes. The new relationship is an example of how urbanization can increase the productivity of the land and improve environmental quality through technology and education while embracing the agrarian qualities to create an authentic place that retains residents and attracts tourists alike.

A MARTNEZ, HOST: Sometimes, a really good meal can lift your mood or make you see a place in a different light. In a remote and tiny town on the high plains of Kansas, it's happening over and over almost every day. A restaurant there uses local products and high-end cooking to breathe new life into a hard-pressed farm town. Here's Frank Morris from member station KCUR.FRANK MORRIS, BYLINE: At rush hour in Sylvan Grove, Kan., a truck or a car or a tractor drives by every so often. The town's been shrinking for most of the last century.(SOUNDBITE OF DOOR CREAKING)MORRIS: But inside one of the old limestone buildings, Fly Boy Brewery & Eats is filling up. Sandy Labertew and her husband are regulars.SANDY LABERTEW: Well, it's open Thursday, Friday, and Saturday and Sunday mornings. And we eat here as often as we can. So we feel pretty good about this place.MORRIS: The food's good. Grant Wagner, the co-owner and chef here, worked his way up through top-notch restaurants. He's from a small town out here originally and says he grew up surrounded by people who had to work with their hands, fix stuff, make do. Found himself in Kansas City, the executive chef at a place where he says customers would drop 2 or 3 grand on dinner. Then, 3 years ago, he and a friend bought Fly Boy.GRANT WAGNER: I just got tired of making food for rich people. I wanted to go back to making food that I cared about for people I cared about.MORRIS: Now Wagner is catering to local farmers and ranchers, families headed for nearby Wilson Lake, and others willing to drive an hour or two for some fine dining or just a top-flight cheeseburger. It's working. On a busy night, Wagner says he'll serve 300 people, so more than Sylvan Grove's entire population, from a menu largely built around beef, from cattle grazing on pastures not far from town.WAGNER: I've got 100% local beef and, man, it is fantastic. It'll put anything in the - in Kansas City, it'll give them a run for their money.MORRIS: He uses honey from right down the street, local cucumbers to make pickles and mushrooms from somebody's basement. Lucas Hass, the co-owner and brewer at Fly Boy, says it's more than a nod to environmental sustainability. It's basic economics in a place that's seen its financial vitality ebb away for decades.LUCAS HASS: You got to do what you got to do to survive out here, but where we can, we try to support local because it keeps it here. I just really hate seeing so much of our wealth being just vacuumed to a different coast.MORRIS: It's an approach that people here appreciate up and down Main Street.RAMIE SCHULTEIS: It is a fun place for local people to go and enjoy themselves.MORRIS: Ramie Schulteis sits behind a desk stacked with books at the Sylvan Grove Public Library.SCHULTIES: The food is good. The service is amazing. The drinks are good. And it's also important for our economy.MORRIS: Fly Boy customers sometimes stay at one of the town's new Airbnbs, for instance. The restaurant also generates jobs for people like Hannah Pahls, a junior at Sylvan Grove High School who says she's proud to be part of a small-town success story.HANNAH PAHLS: This restaurant has just - it's been through everything. It's been through COVID. I just feel like it's a big inspiration to the town, being so well-known here in Lincoln County.MORRIS: In a region where most little towns are withering and restaurants are closing, Fly Boy is giving Sylvan Grove a renewed sense of hope and pride and showing that people like Grant Wagner can come back to the countryside and thrive.For NPR News, I'm Frank Morris.(SOUNDBITE OF KHRUANGBIN'S "PEOPLE EVERYWHERE (STILL ALIVE)")

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