Grow your roots here
Root Access empowers you to live fully, work meaningfully & feel deeply rooted in Schoharie County.
Roots
The stories that make us who we are. Our connections, founders & families & the threads that bind all of us together.
End of the Road agripreneur Brennan McCarthy brought what he learned at his grandfather’s knee in Newark, New Jersey to a rented acre in Schoharie County.
Brimstone Bakery went from wholesale cookies to a garden sanctuary—but it was Schoharie County where Anthony truly planted roots, curating art galleries and building community one creative experience at a time.
Wayward Lane Brewing turned a historic Upstate NY farm into a craft beer destination, blending local ingredients, community roots, and national recognition—all just 35 minutes from Albany and three hours from NYC.
Raema Frost is an Upstate NY entrepreneur who took her Rockerbox Spice Co. from a Queens apartment to Williams Sonoma after figuring out how to grow it in Schoharie County.
Welcome to Root Access, your digital doorway to quality life and work in Upstate NY powered by Schoharie County’s SEEC and partners. Stories about what make us us along with resources for growing your business, making community connections, and even moving in.
Community
Our neighborhoods & village life. Schools, kids, outdoor adventures & landscapes. Fairs & festivals.
If you’ve forgotten more than you learned about what-all led up to signing of the Declaration of Independence on this, its 250th anniversary, what about the stories you never heard? More than a dozen Haundenosaunee artists, sometimes with divergent views, weigh in with the answers in Talkin’ Bout A Revolution: A Haudenosaunee Response to the 250th, now on exhibit at the Iroquois Museum in Howes Cave.
After a nearly-two-year germination, the Schoharie County Farmers Market will launch for a run of 20 Sundays on Memorial Day. Where? The Cobleskill Fairgrounds’ Hall of Ag.
In Upstate New York’s schools, we’re all family and even in basketball, life-lessons are as important as winning. Though winning is important to—just ask Middleburgh, Scho-Burgh winners two years running.
Root Access was never meant to just speak about the community; with the help of our Focus Group, it’s also speaking with it.
A generous donation—270 acres of forests, fields, and hiking trails—helped inspire a partnership between the Schoharie Land Land Trust and community volunteers and the creation of the Settles Mountain Land Preserve.
Schoharie County’s Sunshine Fair is a family-friendly Upstate NY showcase of food, farm animals, and carnival rides. 2026 will mark the 150th Sunshine Fair.
Whether you’re a remote worker, parent, or lifelong learner, Schoharie County’s community libraries offer WiFi, workshops, belonging, and more in each of our downtowns.
Welcome to Root Access, your digital doorway to quality life and work in Upstate NY powered by Schoharie County’s SEEC and partners. Stories about what make us us along with resources for growing your business, making community connections, and even moving in.
Legacy
History, secrets & the stories from our past that you’ll want to hear. We were revolutionary before the Revolution.
If you’ve forgotten more than you learned about what-all led up to signing of the Declaration of Independence on this, its 250th anniversary, what about the stories you never heard? More than a dozen Haundenosaunee artists, sometimes with divergent views, weigh in with the answers in Talkin’ Bout A Revolution: A Haudenosaunee Response to the 250th, now on exhibit at the Iroquois Museum in Howes Cave.
Want to know more about what’s going on in Upstate New York to mark the 250th anniversary of the American Revolution? Revolutionary Schohary County—Rev 250—is your go-to.
Schoharie County is nothing if not resilient and thanks to the NOVA documentary Operation Bridge Rescue, the story of a race against time to lift and twist and coax the rebuilt Blenheim Bridge into place—the original washed away by Hurricane Irene in 2011—the rest of the world now knows it too.
The area now known as the Village of Schoharie was first named by the Mohawk people, who referred to it with a term transliterated as Ska-ahár-ree, commonly interpreted to mean “driftwood” or “floodwaters,” in reference to the Schoharie Creek.
Upstate NY ‘s Carlisle, NY. Explore the Route 20 town where Schoharie County patriots built the Great Chain, bluebirds found their way home, and small-town kindness still greets every traveler.
We’ve got all the Upstate NY Revolutionary history you didn’t know you needed to know, from battles to gallows on Main Street.
A hundred years after New York City destroyed and flooded the Village of Gilboa to quench its thirst for water, locals still talk about it like it happened yesterday. Now, thanks to rediscovered Fox News footage and some historical detective work, a six-minute silent newsreel is bringing the village's final days back to life.
Welcome to Root Access, your digital doorway to quality life and work in Upstate NY powered by Schoharie County’s SEEC and partners. Stories about what make us us along with resources for growing your business, making community connections, and even moving in.
Access
Even as we celebrate our back roads, we’re not standing still. Stories about tech, broadband & community development projects that are growing our economies—and how to invest in them.
SEEC’s 287 Main coworking space could be what you need to launch or grow your Upstate NY business. Give us a call to give us a try.
If the thought of venturing outside in winter chills you to the bone, no worries. Use the time to develop your plans for a business and become one of Upstate New York’s entrepreneurs.
There’s plenty to do outdoors in Upstate NY. We mine the Get Offline, Get Outside Challenge for the best Schoharie County picks.
Schoharie County: By plane, train, or car we’re just a few hours from NYC, Boston, Montreal, and Niagara Falls…the perfect place to start and end every adventure.
Schoharie County’s $33.6 million door-to-every-last-door broadband build-out is underway. When completed, it will open doors to economic development from around the world.
From disaster recovery to broadband, co-working, and high-tech innovations, partners UAlbany and SEEC are proving Upstate New York’s rural economies can thrive in the digital age.
Do artists fuel the Upstate NY economy? It turns out, in places like Schoharie County, the answer is a resounding yes.
Welcome to Root Access, your digital doorway to quality life and work in Upstate NY powered by Schoharie County’s SEEC and partners. Stories about what make us us along with resources for growing your business, making community connections, and even moving in.
Vibes
Arts & culture with our own twist. Galleries? Poetry? Music? Our artists and craftspeople. Look for it here.
If winter’s got you down, Upstate New York is filled with scenes like this, the Cave House Museum of Mining and Geology in Schoharie County’s Howes Cave. It’s the original entrance to the world-famous Howe Caverns.
Patience paid off for eagle-watchers at Minekill State Park in Upstate New York—thanks to help from Schoharie County Eagle Trail founder Bill Combs Jr.
If you like winter—and in Schoharie County, you’d better—now’s the best time to get outside and enjoy its beauty. Take a look…
The Vibes are just the beginning in Upstate NY’s Schoharie County. Line dancing, trivia, pancake breakfasts, and outhouse races…there’s always something to do.
Every October, Upstate NY’s Sharon Springs turns into an unexpected literary hub—where world-class poets, students, and locals gather for two days of readings, workshops, and community.
Wayward Lane Brewing turned a historic Upstate NY farm into a craft beer destination, blending local ingredients, community roots, and national recognition—all just 35 minutes from Albany and three hours from NYC.
Welcome to Root Access, your digital doorway to quality life and work in Upstate NY powered by Schoharie County’s SEEC and partners. Stories about what make us us along with resources for growing your business, making community connections, and even moving in.
Meet The Writer
Patsy Nicosia
Root Access writer Patsy Nicosia brings with her a lifetime of experience in local journalism, covering the stories that matter to Schoharie County and its neighbors through her award-winning reporting and photography for more than 40 years.
From 1992-2025, Patsy served as editor of the Cobleskill Times-Journal. Prior to that, she was editor at the Stamford Mirror-Recorder after getting her start as freelance writer and then a reporter at the T-J…a long time ago.
She’s excited to now be working with SEEC’s Root Access, sharing the stories of what makes Schoharie County…Schoharie County–from its history, to its neighborhoods, its arts scene and its tech possibilities, and mostly the people that connect us all.
Reach out to her at Patsynicosia@gmail.com.