We’ve begun to harvest the garlic and the crop looks excellent. Carve out some time this week to pick up your share of the harvest, 25 for each Free Choice Share and 100 for each Homestead Share. There’s a garlic pick-up sheet in the wash stand, mark there when you’ve gotten your bulbs. If your Continue reading
Farm Happenings New arrivals to the farm this week are the Freedom Ranger chicks. Right now we are keeping them warm and dry inside until they develop their feathers. In August, shareholders will be able to visit them outside down beyond the perennial beds. Our favorite quote of the week was a shareholder in the Continue reading
Farm Happenings What a jolly success the garden tour was on Saturday. There were guests from Lowville to Dickinson Center to Massena, including several new transplants to the region. In the fields we are growing out a variety of lettuce that was brought from France to the Lewis County area in the 1830s. Virkler lettuce Continue reading
Farm Happenings All the slicer and paste tomatoes are planted in the Dutchess field. Pictured, GH and Lindsey are trellising the crop with the stake and weave method with T posts as support. Rye fancies himself a solid supervisor. On Saturday, July 10th, 10am-noon, there is a tour of littleGrasse as part of the Grow Continue reading
Farm Happenings The solstice has come and gone and it’s the time of summer that (sometimes) Bob and Flip are able to sneak away for a couple days. We had a glorious retreat that included visits with family, peaceful woods hike at Hawk Mountain Sanctuary as well as nerding out by touring the oldest organic Continue reading
Farm Happenings This week we welcomed a third apprentice joining us for the summer months. Lindsey teaches middle school in the northeast and was eager to get a change of scenery and learn more about food production and preservation. We first met her six years ago when she joined us on the farm for a Continue reading
Farm Happenings Introducing our newest fields Rambler and Dog Park (so named because we spotted coyotes trotting through it last winter). These fields are around and beyond our house. After years of work preparing the space, the first food crops have been planted. The near plot has all the fall potatoes and the far plot Continue reading
Farm Happenings It was a relief to have a bit of precipitation this week. It’s a dry spring which translates to more labor watering. We are thankful that we have a good supply of water between the pond and our well. The big push of spring transplanting is finally complete. We planted 9 varieties of Continue reading