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Photo: valentinrussanov A working farm is a living, breathing entity. One that just doesn’t need land to survive but people. Five years ago Long Island farmers had laborers knocking on their doors looking for work. Today, it’s the farmers that search out workers, sometimes resorting to stopping by train stations to find day

There are residential districts; planned shopping districts, historic districts, the list goes on and on. Zoning districts help plan the way towns, cities, counties and states use land. And farmland.

At a Stop & Shop in Long Island there’s a sign reading local under which the season offerings of produce reside. It’s the same at Whole Foods and other neighborhood markets throughout Long Island and New York State. Head East, to where expressways give way to wide open spaces of land and farm stands dot

Photo: valentinrussanov Farming in New York is flourishing, with farmers setting a sales record in 2013, taking in $5.68 billion in cash receipts. That’s more than $1 billion from just three years ago according to recently released data from the United States Department of Agriculture. “The newly released USDA sales numbers for 2013