New York State Agriculture Commissioner Richard A. Ball nowadays introduced that the Taste NY program is kicking off two new social media contests to have fun the 10th anniversary of the program and advertise New York State meals, drinks, and agritourism all the way through the vacation season. New Yorkers touring throughout the state in November and December can take part in the contests for an opportunity to win prizes, together with reward baskets full of New York-made meals, drinks, and reward pieces from each and every area of the state and reward playing cards to StoreTasteNY.com, the program’s e-commerce market. This initiative closes out a year-long sequence of occasions the Department held throughout the state to acknowledge Taste NY’s anniversary milestone and the program’s over $100 million in financial have an effect on to New York State manufacturers since its release.
Commissioner Ball mentioned, “For 10 years, Taste NY has been promoting all the best products New York has to offer, highlighting the hardworking men and women who produce them and bringing new customers to their doors. We’ve had a great year celebrating the success of this program over the past decade, and there’s no better time to wrap up our festivities than during the holiday season. If you’re traveling this holiday season, I encourage you to take the time to stop at a Taste NY Market along the way to support your local farmers and entrepreneurs and take part in the #TasteTurns10 contests for a chance to win some delicious prizes for your holiday tables.”
#TriviaTuesday
Additionally, Taste NY Markets and regional Welcome Centers throughout the state are retaining a digital trivialities contest main up to the unveiling in their annual Christmas tree toppers. This yr, the NYS Grown & Certified Christmas bushes on show at each and every of the state’s regional Welcome Centers and Taste NY Markets will spotlight a distinct New York agricultural commodity in a selfmade tree topper. In the 4 weeks main up to the tree topper unveiling, social media customers can have the alternative to wager what 4 commodities Taste NY might be that includes in the tree toppers in keeping with a weekly sequence of trivialities questions.
Each post will come with a link to a kind the place fans can wager the commodity for an opportunity to be entered to win a $25 StoreTasteNY.com reward card. Participants can have till the Friday of the week the query is posted to input. On each and every Friday, a winner might be drawn from a pool of that week’s individuals. On Monday, December 11, all the tree toppers might be published.
#TasteTurns10 Selfie Contest
Starting Monday, November 20, and operating thru the finish of the yr, Taste NY Markets in the 10 regional Welcome Centers throughout the state will be offering New York State-themed “selfie stations.” To take part in the contest, New Yorkers and guests touring for the vacation season snap a photograph at the selfie station and post it on Facebook or Instagram the use of the hashtags #TasteTurns10. A QR code equipped at the selfie station will supply instructions for a way to be sure that individuals are entered in the contest.
Each regional Welcome Center will award one contest winner a Taste NY reward basket full of regional meals, drinks, and reward pieces from native Taste NY markets. Entries for the reward baskets will have to be won by means of December 31 and drawings might be held in early January. Winners might be notified by means of e-mail and directed to select up baskets at their regional Welcome Center.
This promotional contest comes as a part of the Department’s year-long sequence of occasions throughout the state in popularity of the 2023 10-year milestone of the Taste NY program and its good fortune over the ultimate decade, together with over $100 million in financial have an effect on to New York State manufacturers since its release. The Department has held open area occasions at Taste NY Markets throughout the state, together with at the regional Welcome Centers and the Olana State Historic Site, to show off the range and high quality of New York State’s farmers and meals and beverage manufacturers. Taste NY used to be additionally celebrated at the 2023 Great New York State Fair thru a distinct Tasting Yard at the Fair’s Suburban Park that includes seven native breweries, a spotlight of the program’s emblem in the Sand Sculpture showcase, in addition to increasing choices at the Taste NY Pop-Up Market and Marketplace.
About Taste NY
Taste NY highlights the high quality, range, and financial have an effect on of meals and drinks grown, produced, or processed in New York State. Taste NY objectives to create new alternatives for manufacturers thru occasions, retail places, and partnerships, comparable to at The Great New York State Fair and the Barclays Tournament at Bethpage State Park. Over the ultimate 10 years, Taste NY has supported just about 2,000 meals and beverage manufacturers taking part in the program thru shops, occasions, and sponsorships. In 2022, 311 new manufacturers had been onboarded to the program thru New York’s Welcome Centers. Taste NY’s meals and beverage companies additionally enhance the state’s farmers by means of the use of New York grown and produced substances of their merchandise.