Hi farm shareholders: We are ready for your visits to the farm! Lingering is welcome, bring friends or family or a snack to enjoy the spring birdsong and growth. Orientation for NEW shareholders or anyone who wants a refresher: 30 minutes. Friday, May 23rd at 5:30pm or Sunday, May 25th at 1pm. If you cannot Continue reading
Lots of scratch cooking happens on the farm and we were reminiscing about the many people who have spent time here over the years participating in the food projects that fill the pantry and freezer. Apprentices, farm shareholders, family, neighbors, community based learning students and more. For some, the techniques are new territory while others Continue reading
Crop updates: We’ve marked the first chinese cabbage, bok choy and hakurei turnips. Soon the potatoes will be available, the first winter squash as well as the daikon radish. With our wet August, we had issues with the fresh onions not being able to dry down correctly. As a result, you likely noticed soft spots Continue reading
Crop updates: The tomato crop is still coming in strong. There’s abundant beans, and now is a great time to make pesto and other basil items. We harvested the first round of potatoes which will be available within the week. The yield was lighter than we would have liked but there’s many good spuds in Continue reading
Crop updates: The tomato harvest is starting to pick up with these sunny days. There’s a great new patch of butterhead head lettuce marked in the front range field. Soon the edamame green soy will be available and also a new bed of beans. This zucchini planting is waning and will stop producing soon. We Continue reading
There’s a fresh bed of carrots available, plus the first ripe tomatoes. Generally in outdoor production in NNY tomatoes are available for 6-7 weeks depending on how soon the frost arrives and how well the plants stave off diseases such as late blight. There was good germination on the next succession of carraot aka the Continue reading
Last weekend marked our least rainy Garden Morning and potluck in three months! The jolly group harvested a couple thousand German Extra Hardy garlic as well as cleaning up in the flower beds, weeding fall carrots and harvesting cucumbers and zucchini. We welcomed new shareholders along with a handful of St. Lawrence students. There’s a Continue reading
Farm & Garden Updates Crop Updates: We are starting to offer sweet Walla Walla onions this week, which grew well and have a delicious, mild flavor. You’ll see them starting to trickle into the barn. There’s also a new crop of the compact head lettuce Monte Carlo. Another crop of beans will be ready shortly. Continue reading