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We drove up to the farm Saturday morning after Sarah’s magic-themed 9th birthday party at our apartment.  We spotted 16 hawks on the Taconic on the way up — a personal record.  When we arrived, we found the pond frozen solid.  Sarah found a cat tail and made a wish. Sarah and Jen shoveled off […]

On Saturday, Sarah answered the time-honored question of Hanukkah — apple sauce or sour cream? — in the time-honored fashion, by having both.  Here’s a link to the recipe.

On Saturday night we made, as a team effort, what we called Bucatini Alla Mexicana — basically, this recipe, but with chorizo instead of guanciale and with a dried poblano addded to the sauce.  Too spicy, said Sarah, here rolling out the pasta dough.  At the edge of the counter you can see the little […]

We had some really impressive thunderstorms Saturday evening.  Perhaps in response, this woodpecker went looking for a safe and cozy spot.  He found one by making a hole about the size of a silver dollar in one of the pillars on the back porch. The storm also shook loose lots of tomatoes.

Do we relax on Labor Day?  Why, noooo – we do lots of yard work.  But we are not the only ones who keep busy. This highly energetic squirrel gathered two hickory nuts simultaneously. And this frog made a home in Sarah’s rosebush. But it was not all toil.  Jen’s dad came to visit, and […]

Sarah seemed to have a tolerably good time at the Dutchess County Fair this year.  We missed the fair last year because of a hurricane, but Sarah nevertheless won a blue ribbon.  This year, Sarah went twice, on Friday and Saturday. There were no ribbons for us this year, blue or otherwise.  Jen’s blackberry jam […]

This weekend we celebrated Jen’s birthday in high agrarian style.  Here’s Jen showing the tomato plants what’s what. Like most farmers, Jen and Sarah started the day with a hearty breakfast. Sarah received calls on this recently harvested cucumber. We dropped off our entries for the Dutchess County Fair, which starts on Tuesday.  Jen entered […]

Sarah snacked moodily on heirloom tomatoes before we departed from the farm this evening. We have a new — and vibrant — beehive in one of the maples in front of the cottage.  You can hear it buzzing from some distance away.  We consulted Ray Tousey, who sells honey at the Rhinebeck Farmers’ Market.  He said […]

We had a very relaxing summer vacation at the farm.  We had beautiful sunsets … … and beautiful moonsets. Jen made blackberry jam and other delicious things. We spent plenty of time with our resident hawks, who for some reason have nested very close to our bedroom window, rise early, and are quite agitated. Jen […]

It was the peak weekend for the Rose of Sharon, here shown in full bloom. Sarah’s babysitter Lauren visited for the weekend.  It was bittersweet, as she leaves us next Friday to begin a PhD program at the University of Virginia. It was nice to have an extra pair of hands for berry picking!  The […]