welcome to the farm
Sep 25 2016
We had a busy weekend, hosting the Winnakee Land Trust Barn Tour on Saturday and the Landsman Kill Trail Association Fall Trail Ride on Sunday. Our barn, which is 100 years old this year, has one of the earliest poured concrete foundations in Dutchess County. On Saturday I tried to give the barn tourists an authentic farm experience […]
Sep 18 2016
Jen’s garden is producing more tomatoes than we can comfortably eat, but we are doing our best to keep up, with tomato salads, tomato tarts, BLTs, bagels with cream cheese and tomatoes — you name it. Jen is even working on a tomato jam. We had a bat mitzvah-shortened weekend in the country, but on […]
Sep 11 2016
We had many threatening clouds but ultimately a beautiful weekend. Jen’s gardens are at maximum production. We have more flowers than vases, and more tomatoes than we can eat. Sarah’s friend from school, Ainsley, spent the weekend with us. On Sunday, Sarah led a jam tasting. Now she has her first full week of seventh […]
Sep 05 2016
We had beautiful weather for Labor Day weekend at the farm. Jen’s parents and sister visited. We ate many tomato salads. Sarah won lots of points playing Boggle against her aunt, the English professor. And Daisy did what Daisy does best.