Supporters of open space and local farms will enjoy a “community farm dinner” in Gardiner on Saturday, June 9 to raise funds for the town’s newest farmland protection project -- the Hess farm. The Town of Gardiner has again joined with the Open Space Institute (OSI) to protect this family farm, a 74-acre working farm that has been in operation since the Civil War and in the Hess family since 1928. The farm is located at the corner of Sand Hill and Marabac Roads, a mile south of the hamlet of Gardiner and just across the street from the Wallkill Valley Rail Trail.