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The Express Magazine is the go-to source for lifestyle stories about the people and places in the world-famous summer resort towns of the Hamptons ☀️

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Bill Bockhaus went to work for Aqua ViTea, a large kombucha producer in Vermont. He was eager to learn the business on a much larger scale, surrounded by massive fermentation tanks and an established production operation.

After returning to his hometown, Bockhaus decided, “If they can do it, I can do it,” he said. “I can do it just on a smaller scale.”

And so he began building his own company from the ground up. He developed recipes, worked on branding, networked with kombucha producers around the country and even connected with someone in Switzerland as he learned the business. Licensing and regulatory paperwork took months, but by August of last year, Hamptons Kombucha was officially launched.

Read more at the Linktree in our bio or pick up the October issue of The Express Magazine.

✍️ Kim Covell | @kcm11976 by @theexpressmagazine

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By day, Claire DiMenna is a junior at the University of Connecticut studying animal science. By choice, she is the founder and driving force behind Critterville Farm Sanctuary — a Riverhead nonprofit that gives rescued farm animals a place to live out their natural lives.

At 20 years old, DiMenna is living a life that is anything but conventional. The nonprofit is now a prominent fixture on Sound Avenue in Riverhead, but her journey began years earlier when she was just 11 years old.

“I always loved animals,” she said. “My sister and I were always the ones who took home the pets from class.”

Read the article at 27east by clicking on the Linktree in our bio or pick up the October issue of The Express Magazine.

📷 Courtesy Unparalleled Suffering by @theexpressmagazine

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When summer begins to fade and give way to fall on the East End, the crowds thin, but local farm fields are still bursting with produce.

For most farmers, autumn is not the end of the growing season. It is one of the busiest and most rewarding times of the year.

Warm-weather crops like watermelon are replaced with things like winter squash and Brussels sprouts, for example, which thrive in the cooler temperatures. Sweet potatoes, carrots and beets are coming in, while tomatoes and sweet corn can still be found until the first frost … or until the crops are depleted.

At Halsey Farm in Water Mill, Adam Halsey, a 12th-generation farmer, and his son Eli see the fall as a time when the farm shifts from the intensity of summer into a slower, more reflective season.

"The summer is head down, and you don’t think about how tired you are. In the fall, you can actually slow down. [And] we have some of the best produce of the year in the fall. When it’s not as hot, there’s not as much pressure," Adam said.

Read more at the Linktree in our bio or pick up the October issue of The Express Magazine

✍️ Kim Covell | @kcm11976
📷 Eli Halsey taken in Halsey Farm and Nursery by @theexpressmagazine

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The October HARVEST issue of The Express Magazine is on newsstands now. by @theexpressmagazine

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I’ve been lucky to have had articles, and features in papers, and magazines for music over the years, but this is a first!
I appreciate the awesome feature in @theexpressmagazine
It’s always fun to see your own images in print, but having your own story to go along with the photos is something else!
Thank you for great words @patrickjsauer 🙏
and thank you @kathrynmenu & @gavin.menu for the feature.
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#montauk #eastend #hamptons #photographer #photography taken in Montauk, New York by @theexpressmagazine

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I would like to order 14 of them please.

Our Atomic Egg Sandwich on the cover of @theexpressmagazine just glowing and partnered with the Blueberry Birch Soda 🥤 taken in Peconic, New York by @theexpressmagazine

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The closure of Sag Harbor staple Espresso da Asporto was a heavy blow to locals who had loved the spot for years — and the team at Cruust, the new eatery occupying Espresso’s cove-side space, is the first to agree.

That is why Cruust was created “with the local in mind,” as Bobby Deery, the general manager of both Cruust and K Pasa, explained.

“Everyone knew Espresso’s menu like the back of their hand,” Deery said. “Our team knew that if we were going to take the space, we had to do something similar.”

Opened in July to eager residents from Sag Harbor and beyond, Cruust is the latest venture by Tip Top Hospitality — the group behind local mainstays K Pasa and Sen, which includes Jesse Matsuoka, Bobby Deery, David Hart, Tora Matsuoka and Stephen Loffredo. As Sag Harbor locals themselves, Matsuoka and Derry placed community identity at the core of the restaurant’s philosophy.

“We know everyone that comes in,” Deery said. “It’s important to not only have a face you know behind the counter, but that local mentality too.”

Read more using the Linktree in our bio or pick up the October issue of The Express Magazine.

✍️ Hope Hamilton | @hhopehamilton
📷 Lee Meyer | @leemeyer26 by @theexpressmagazine

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It all started with the string beans.

Vicki Littman was just 11 years old when she told her father, Les Jones, that she wanted to sell some of the string beans growing on her cousin’s family farm in Sagaponack locally.

“We would go to my cousin’s farm, where he grew them, and then we’d go to my other cousin’s house next door to where I lived, and we’d sort through the string beans, and then they would ship them to the market in New York City,” Littman, now 56, reminisced in an interview in August. “For me, I was, like, why are we shipping them to New York City? Why can’t we just sell them here?”

It was the kind of innocent question that springs from the mind of a child — and instead of being dismissed by the adults around her, someone listened.

Littman’s father built her a small farm stand and helped her set up what ended up becoming one of the most successful operations on the East End.

Read more at the Linktree in our bio and in the October issue of The Express Magazine.

✍️ Cailin Riley | @cailin820
📷 Lori Hawkins | @lorimhawk taken in Amagansett, New York by @theexpressmagazine

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As a Grammy-nominated singer, songwriter, guitarist and “one-man band,” Raul Midón is always on a quest to articulate his own unique voice without falling into clichés. That means digging deep and honoring his own truth.

“One thing I am still trying to do is write from my perspective,” he said when we sat down for a Zoom interview recently. “I try not to rely on visual clichés, which are so common in songs.”

This rings true for anyone trying to capture a specific emotion or experience, but for Midón, who is blind, the visual clichés are truly not applicable. He has his own way of seeing things and sharing that with his audience is illuminating. He referenced a line from the song “When You Call My Name” on his album “Synthesis”.

“I don’t know why, but I feel music in the rain, see the sunlight in my brain,” he sang to me through the computer screen. “Writing from the perspective of someone who has never seen these things,” he said, “that’s unique.”

Read more at 27east by using the Linktree in our bio.

✍️ Emily Weitz

Raul Midón will be playing the Sag Harbor American Music Festival on Friday, September 25, at 8 p.m. at @baystreettheater by @theexpressmagazine

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Showing off their prowess on the southern shore of the South Fork is something that Cameron Burton, Caleb Atkinson-Barnes, Ryan Duryea, and Peter Schaefer have done for years. The quartet — all Pierson graduates — are familiar faces at the eastern ocean beaches in the summer months, particularly at Sagg Main. They regularly take part in lifeguarding competitions during the summer, where they go up against guards from the western Southampton Town beaches, East Hampton Town and Village beaches, and beyond, and they also help train the next generation during the town’s junior lifeguarding program.

While the calm waters of the bays surrounding Sag Harbor Village have not traditionally been the place where their skills are called upon, their journey to the whaleboat race competitions makes perfect sense.

Read more by clicking the Linktree in our bio.

✍️ Cailin Riley | @cailin820 by @theexpressmagazine

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While many of the biggest draws every year during HarborFest happen down on Windmill Beach, Main Street or Long Wharf, another tradition has consistently attracted a steady stream of visitors and devotees.

The annual Arts & Crafts Fair has been part of the HarborFest slate for years. Taking place at Marine Park, the fair draws artists and artisans from all over the region, including many who are local. They bring a wide range of unique, handcrafted goods and offer them for sale in their boutiques, from stunning landscape photography to handmade candles and soaps, jewelry, fine art, clothing and more. And while the name of the fair may be simple, there is not only something for everyone but also an intentionally curated gathering of items and goods that sets the event apart from the average or stereotypical arts and crafts events that pop up around the East End during the year.

✍️ Cailin Riley | @cailin820 taken in Sag Harbor, New York by @theexpressmagazine

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One of the East End’s most well-loved annual traditions, the Hamptons International Film Festival, will return for its 34th season from October 2 to 12 at various theaters, including the Sag Harbor Cinema, Southampton Playhouse, Guild Hall and East Hampton Regal UA Cinema.

Read the interview by visiting 27east.com or clicking the Linktree in our bio.

✍️ & 📷 Hope Hamilton | @hhopehamilton by @theexpressmagazine

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