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Farm Hands and Editorial

The Farmers Choice Team

The Farm Hands behind the counter at our Fishkill and New Paltz stores. Between us we have walked thousands of shoppers from Dutchess and Ulster counties through their first (and thousandth) visit, and we write these guides the way we talk on the floor: plain, honest, and never pushy.
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Who writes for Farmers Choice

Everything published here is written or reviewed by people who work our counters in Fishkill and New Paltz. The Farm Hands are the ones fielding the questions every day, so they set the topics, and nothing goes up that they would not say to a shopper standing in front of them. Where a piece touches New York rules, we check it against the Office of Cannabis Management guidance in force at the time and date the update on the page. When the rules change or the shelves change, we come back and revise rather than leaving a stale post sitting there.

How we handle facts and sources

Guides cite their sources at the bottom, and store facts like hours, addresses, and license numbers come from one internal record so the same number appears everywhere on the site. We do not publish medical guidance of any kind, because that is a conversation for your physician and not a retail counter. What we do write about is what we actually know: what is on the shelf, how it is grouped, what the labels mean, what a first visit looks like, and what is happening around our towns this month.

Ask us directly

If a guide left something out, the fastest answer is still a person. Call the Fishkill farm stand at 845-440-3647 or the New Paltz barn at 845-419-2420 during open hours, or come visit either store and ask at the counter. Fishkill runs 8AM to 10PM Sunday to Wednesday and 8AM to 11PM Thursday to Saturday. New Paltz runs 8AM to 10PM daily. Questions that come up more than once tend to become the next guide on this site.

Two farm stands behind the byline

Farmers Choice runs two licensed adult-use stores in New York, and the writing here comes out of both. The Fishkill farm stand, at 18 Westage Drive in Dutchess County, is the original and the one that set the tone: fresh picks up front, plain answers at the counter. The Barn in New Paltz, at 1 Old Route 299 at Thruway Exit 18 in Ulster County, is the flagship, with the Shawangunk Ridge behind it and a 360 tour on its page. Between them they serve most of the mid-Hudson region, from Poughkeepsie and Beacon on the Dutchess side to Kingston, Highland, and Gardiner on the Ulster side. That is the map the blog and the guides follow, because it is the map our customers actually drive. Cannabis dispensary like no other.

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