Pencil sketch by Mary Ann Barr 2021
Town Hall, 1830 Danby Road, Ithaca, NY 14850
On November 10 2022, Danby’s Conservation Advisory Council hosted a webinar on a new Tompkins
County food policy initiative, whose goal is to increase local food production in
Tompkins County 50% in 5 years. Speakers included Don Barber, former Caroline
Town Supervisor, now Chair of Food Policy Council, and Erin Kurtz, District Conservationist, USDA – NRCS.
The Town of Danby sits on the traditional & ancestral land of the Gayogoho:no’ (Cayuga Nation), one of the five nations to first form the Haudenosaunee. Indigenous peoples were largely forced out of Upstate New York by the Sullivan-Clinton Expedition in 1779. The land that would become the Town of Danby was a part of the Watkins and Flint Purchase, a 336,380 acre patent granted by New York State to numerous eastern investors in 1794.
