In November, Flip was contacted by NNY Business with the news that she was recognized in their annual 20 Under 40 Awards for emerging leaders in the North Country for her activities at both littleGrasse and Cornell Cooperative Extension. It’s exciting news when folks working in food system resiliency can be respected on equal footing Continue reading
As the you pick season is zipping up for the season, we’ll reduce our weekly updates to monthly emails. We’ll share the musings at the homestead and you’ll be the first to hear when our CSA information is announced for 2021! We will not be hosting our annual Swap It! Community Trading Event customarily taking Continue reading
Farm Happenings There’s two full weeks remaining in the share and we invite you to make the most of the many greens along with carrots, squash and more. If your household is interested in harvesting kale or chard to blanch and freeze, be our guest! One hallmark of autumn is planting garlic and shallots. In Continue reading
Pumpkin winnas! Great job guessing to the Dalton, Armendariz-Huang and Townsend families. The final pumpkin weights were 81, 41.5 and 22.25 pounds and two guesses were within a quarter pound! We have our thinking caps on for other interactive and fun stuff to incorporate into the 2021 calendar at littleGrasse. Stock up on greens this Continue reading
Though this is the fourth season of the You Pick Share, each year we’ve tweaked and expanded the model. Improvements in 2020 include more variety and a longer season. A couple crops we hoped to feature in the fall did not perform well enough to distribute: cabbage and broccoli. The good news is that we Continue reading
Farm Happenings The hard frost happened and zapped many tender plants. It was a pleasure to see so many households stocking up on beans and enjoying another bouquet from the flower garden before the chill set in. There’s still beaucoup groundcherries that survived under the insulation of their own plant mass. There’s a lovely new Continue reading
You are a generous bunch! From farm fresh gazpacho to goose breast, apples to apple chips it was a beautiful week of surprises- thank you. Early September is known for it’s bounty since the hot summer crops overlap with the cooler fall crops, thus nearly every item is “in season”. As the weeks progress there Continue reading
While the farm share focuses on vegetables, herbs and flowers, we enjoy sharing the fruits of the Dutchess tree when it bears well. What fun we had during the apple harvest, five of us tackled the job and they are now available as part of the pickup for this week only. The apples are good Continue reading