{"id":282,"date":"2014-05-09T16:32:43","date_gmt":"2014-05-09T20:32:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/hvagriculture\/?p=282"},"modified":"2014-05-09T16:32:43","modified_gmt":"2014-05-09T20:32:43","slug":"field-trip-to-the-farm-to-table-co-packers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/hvagriculture\/2014\/05\/09\/field-trip-to-the-farm-to-table-co-packers\/","title":{"rendered":"Field trip to the Farm to Table Co-Packers"},"content":{"rendered":"

After five times field trip to various farms in the New York state, we knew much about agriculture \u00a0and rural life in American society. As an international exchange student from China, I never know much about the life in the farm and never thought I have the chance to get into \u00a0the other way of living in America. But the field trip give me the chance to experience it and it is so interesting and attractive! Yes, I was so looking forward to this visit!<\/p>\n

This Friday, we went to the Farm to Table Co-Packers, which located 1 hour from Vassar \u00a0College.\u00a0Kingston-based Farm to Table Co-Packers is a full-service contract packaging company. The building of this company is the former office of IBM. It was founded by\u00a0Jim Hyland, who has an ambitious idea to provide the healthy , local food in winter.Because some food cannot be sold in harvest season, it will be wasted. However, the company absorb it and package this food into add- value food in food market \u00a0so that the food can be sold all round the year, not the short harvest season. Because of it, we can eat healthy food in winter and the surplus food will not be wasted.<\/p>\n

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This the product of this company.<\/p>\n

Now the company has so many kitchens\u00a0that includes a processing line, a full bakery, an incubator\/test kitchen, a cutting-edge \u201cIndividually Quick Frozen\u201d system, storage for refrigerated, frozen and dry goods, and multiple loading docks.<\/p>\n

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This is the machine of product line. \u00a0It seems so complicated that I \u00a0do not know how to use it.<\/p>\n

The history of farm to Table Co-Packers shakes me. Not like the traditional farms, This company only \u00a0make the fresh food into value-added product. Now it has become the food- hub in this region. From this trip, I learned that a good idea can create a good company, and the combination of modern and tradition can make our daily life better.<\/p>\n

After finished our visit \u00a0to Table Co-Packers, we came to a beautiful small town- Kingston, which has so many beautiful buildings . there are many interesting stores in the town. The weather is nice, \u00a0I am so happy when I was looking around to take some beautiful pictures.<\/p>\n

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I have six field trips in this class from traditional farms \u00a0to modern company. I have went to \u00a0many beautiful places . It is so different from the city.<\/p>\n

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I have seen kinds of animals. they are so cute! See this pictures. You can imagine how interesting of the life in farm!<\/p>\n

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I have eat many kinds of delicious food, something \u00a0I never \u00a0eat before.<\/p>\n

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Take this class with a great professor \u00a0and explore more about \u00a0America.<\/p>\n

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