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Paula Redmond Real Estate

www.paularedmond.com Paula Redmond Real Estate is a company dedicated to bringing you the best properties that the Mid-Hudson Valley has to offer.   From rural landscapes to charming villages, Paula and her associates can link you to every property in Dutchess and Columbia Counties. As smaller companies are merging with larger brokers, the independent broker [...]

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Koko Farm – Riding Lessons, Training, Boarding & Sales

Koko Farm Wiltsie Bridge Road Ancramdale, NY (just down the road from Herondale Farm) Riding Lessons, Training, Boarding and Sales All Ages and Levels Welcome: Beginner – Advanced – Showing   As with all of our “Choices” this one developed from personal experience. My daughters have been riding at Koko Farm for the past three [...]

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Robin Hood Radio: WHDD 91.9 FM & 1020 AM

There can’t be many NPR stations quite like WHDD, the smallest outpost of that embattled empire, serving both urbanized weekenders and local farmers and other residents in a varied slice of the Berkshires, the Litchfield Hills and Dutchess County, N.Y.  Amid the whales of contemporary radio, there are still a few distinctly independent minnows, like [...]

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Agriturismo Restaurant

Agriturismo 2938 Church Street Pine Plains, NY 518.398.1000 Website: www.agriturismorestaurant.com We first introduced Mark Strausman to our readers in March of 2010. At the time, we could hardly believe this big-city, high profile chef (Sapore de Mare, Coco Pazzo, Fred’s at Barneys and Compagna) was talking about opening an Italian farm-to-table restaurant right here in [...]

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Sol Flower Farm

Andy Szymanowicz started his first garden with the help of his grandfather when he was 5 years old — and he was hooked. At 15 he was already working in greenhouses and by 20, he was a forestry education major. Is it any wonder then to learn that his love for nature, growing plants and [...]

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Shandell’s – Lampshade & Vintage Lighting Studio

Shandell’s 2976 Church Street Pine Plains, NY (518) 789-6603 Email: thingsthatmakeyousmile@gmail.com Website: www.Shandells.com SHANDELL’S FEATURED IN HUDSON VALLEY MAGAZINE’s “Home Issue”!  (CLICK HERE) We first blogged about Shandell’s last summer.  Author/entrepreneur Diane Meier had told me about what wonderful work Shandell’s owner and artisan, Susan Schneider, had done for her when she was looking for [...]

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Rembrant Painters

Robyn and Eddie Interior/Exterior House Painting Services 845.541.2430 Serving Dutchess, Putnam and Southern Columbia County

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The Farmer’s Wife in Ancramdale

The Farmer’s Wife 3 County Route 8 Ancramdale, NY 12503 518.329.5431 www.thefarmerswife.biz The Farmer’s Wife is my hometown place.  Whether it be for morning coffee, breakfast, lunch or something to take home when I don’t have time to cook.  Though they have the most delicious prepared foods available at the store (soups and meals that [...]

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Doodletown Farm

Here’s another great “trade secret” from me – Doodletown Farm Antiques. If you read our blog you already know Doodletown’s owners, Bob Murphy and Jack Lindsay through their very popular home renovation series here on our website. Before leaving the big city and moving to Ancram, Jack was an art curator, and Bob, an advertising [...]

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Wanda Furman – Home Style Consultant

Hammertown readers  might already be familiar with Wanda’s name.  She was a pivotal force behind the Gatehouse Redo in Pine Plains this spring and she styled the recent photo shoot we had for our newly-published brochure. This past February, Auntie M did a 3 part interview with Joan and Wanda when they discussed the renovation [...]

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