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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 […]

We had a hot and happy Independence Day at the farm.  Here, Jen goes off to gather lettuce for a July 4 salad.  Later we climbed Burger Hill to watch fireworks from the towns near the Hudson River. Sarah read about a book a day. It’s berry season.  We do not appear to have a […]

Jen put in a heroic effort in the garden this weekend.  Everything is ship-shape, and we should have a splendid summer, veggie-wise.  To the right of Jen (her left) you can see Sarah’s little rose bush in full bloom. Grandpa and B.J. visited the farm and indulged Sarah in a game of the aptly named […]

Jen and Sarah made good progress planting the garden today.  If the produce gods cooperate, we will have tomatoes (Brandywine (red and black), Paul Robeson (a brandywine variant with a very deep voice), Pineapple Hawaiian, Green Zebra and Aunt Ruby’s German Green, plus Sungold and Sweet 100 cherries), peppers (poblano and red), broccoli, brussel sprouts, cantaloupe, […]

We took Friday off.  Sarah dyed some eggs, and on Saturday we brought them back to New York to celebrate Passover.  Today we had an Easter egg hunt in Central Park.

We made ravioli Saturday night.  It’s a team effort: Jen makes the pasta, I make the sauce, and we collaborate on fillings.  In this way we can have thirds, all the while complimenting each other’s cooking skill.

We arrived at the farm for our Christmas vacation and found a deranged squirrel in the family room, hopping from bookshelf to bookshelf.  In the process, he knocked my ukulele to the ground, destroying it.  The squirrel had gotten in through the chimney in the mud room.  We chased him out the front door. Other […]