Canacadea Berries

11/30/2025

I’ll be making some thumbprint cookies and Jonas will be 📷 capturing the memories! 🧑‍🎄

Santa is coming to town, and he is making a Stop here on The Hill!! 🎄🎅🏽⛄🎁

08/15/2025

We hope everyone’s having a great Summer!

01/31/2025

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Date: January 30, 2025
Contacts:
Doug Sinclair, MD, MPH, Yates County Public Health Director 315-536-5160
Kate Ott, MPH, Ontario County Public Health Director 585-396-4343

50 Dead Snow Geese at Kashong Point, Geneva
Testing for H5N1 is Underway

Hopewell and Penn Yan: Ontario and Yates County Public Health officials were notified today that Snow Geese discovered dead on the west side of Seneca Lake at Kashong Point, are being tested for H5N1, also known as Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (HPAI). The site is near the border of Ontario and Yates Counties.

Yates County Director of Public Health Doug Sinclair commented “H5N1 in the Finger Lakes wild bird population is not new. Per US Department of Agriculture records, infections in birds from counties surrounding Seneca Lake have been documented for several years.”

HPAI is most dangerous and deadly to birds; causing large die-offs, such as the most recent ones on Seneca Lake. Mammals can also get HPAI. It was first detected in US cows in March of 2024, and in April 2024, the CDC confirmed the first human case in a Texas dairy worker.

The virus can be transmitted directly from birds, or via contaminated environments or other infected animals. Human infections are rare, but can occur if the virus is inhaled or gets into the eyes, nose, or mouth. Risk to the general public is low, though people who work with birds and cows are at greater risk of becoming infected. Human-to-human transmission can occur, but is unlikely.

Per Kate Ott, Director of Ontario County Public Health, “There is no cause for immediate alarm, but surveillance is important.” The CDC has been monitoring HPAI for decades because flu viruses can swap genetic information with each other and create new strains when they meet up in the same host, leading to pandemics. In New York, farmers are on the lookout for sick cows and workers, and are having their milk tested regularly for H5N1.

Residents should try to keep wild and domestic flocks apart; protect their hands, eyes, nose, and mouth while disposing of dead birds; and as always, practice excellent handwashing. To report dead birds, call the NY State DEC at 585-226-5380 (Avon office); 607-622-8274 (Bath office). Finally, farmers should contact their veterinarians when livestock or poultry are sick, and dairy farmworkers should see their healthcare providers for eye or upper respiratory infections.

Additional information is available at: https://www.cdc.gov/bird-flu/situation-summary/mammals.html; https://dec.ny.gov/nature/wildlife-health/reporting-dead-wildlife; and https://www.aphis.usda.gov/livestock-poultry-disease/avian/avian-influenza/hpai-detections/wild-birds.

More Info from DEC: https://dec.ny.gov/news/press-releases/2025/1/dec-launches-new-web-based-form-to-report-suspected-cases-of-highly-pathogenic-avian-influenza-in-wild-birds #:~:text=New%20York%20State%20Department%20of,monitor%20HPAI%20in%20New%20York.

Yates County Public Health

08/27/2024

07/04/2024

Happy 4th of July

06/29/2024

Nothing to do on this rainy day? Stop in and try our New Release! Our La Crescent will leave you with that tropical sunshiny feeling ☀️🥂

06/21/2024

Looks like it's going to be a great year for berries!

03/02/2024

Olean Times Herald provided their local readers and communities access to the documentary "Foodways stories of farms, food, and resiliance" on Wednesday, February 28th - a nice Birthday gift to be pictured in the paper🎈🎁🥳

Be a part of change to a local food system that grows and raises safe, sustainable, and trusted food. We can have a system that doesn't rely on big ag corporations and pharmaceuticals that continue to disrupt our health and environment.

Share, share, share and make choices to purchase locally or grow / make it yourself 🤝🫶💞

Know your Food Know your Farmer, they are in every community🧑‍🌾👩‍🌾

02/06/2024

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12/09/2023

We are thrilled to introduce two new wines to our Dry Red line up! Our 2022 Saperavi Reserve and Woodshed Red, a blend of Cabernet Franc & Saperavi! Stop in this weekend and give them a try. Open Wednesday - Sunday 10-5pm.

11/13/2023

Bunny tail grass is so fun to grow. Still looking good.