Upstate NY (anything outside NYC) is VERY agricultural. Just about anything that is not cold sensitive can be, and is, grown here. It’s usually the staples: potatoes, corn, onions, and apples galore (there’s orchards everywhere) along with cherries, peaches, pears, berries, any kind of vegetable that doesn’t require a long growing season.
But that’s the down side. Our frost free dates are from about the middle of May until Sept/Oct. It has been from as early as the middle of April to as late as Nov. but that can’t be counted on.
There’s also a lot of game in this state and a lot of dairy.
Weather and corrupt government aside, NY STATE has a lot to offer.
Weather and corrupt government aside, NY STATE has a lot to offer.<<<
Yes, I have known several native New Yorkers who thought it was the place to live.
Arizona is not, but it is too late for me to be moving again.
I will have frozen /broken pipes and the heat in the summer.
The worst of all in this area, is the soil, you cannot add compost etc to it, as the wind blows every day and takes it away.
There is almost no food grown here, there are no farms, dairies, feed lots, and not much in the way of wild life to eat.