Go to Western NY Farm for Some Cow Cuddling Therapy

Did you know cows can sooth the savage beast in you?

Check out this story at https://www.goodmorningamerica.com/travel/story/cow-cuddling-thing-costs-75-hour-64388247?fbclid=IwAR33rhmPcAb22Z0_7c9tEQCTpz4k5sjFp6wgeR9n-ixNuXtcxu7ikWCq9ik

All you have to do it go to this farm in Ontario County (south of Rochester and Canandaigua) to hug some cows.

Naples High School Senior Wins Potato Growers Scholarship

Jacob Rathbun on his family farm

Jacob Rathbun of Naples, has been named the 2015 Empire State Potato Growers Association Scholarship winner.

The Empire State Potato Growers Association annually selects an undergraduate student residing in and attending college in New York to receive a $500 scholarship per academic year for up to four consecutive years of agricultural education.

Rathbun will graduate from Naples High School in June and then study for a degree in viticulture at Finger Lakes Community College. He plans to transfer to Cornell University to complete his bachelor's degree in viticulture and enology. 

His career goal is to start his own grape farm and winery and grain production enterprise.

Rathbun was raised on the family farm in Naples, where he has helped fit ground, plant, hill and harvest 350 acres of potatoes. This spring Jacob and his father Charles Rathbun planted 50 acres of their first crop of barley to sell to the craft brewing industry. 

He has a hobby planting of grapes on the farm. This summer he will visit vineyards and wineries in Italy.