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New York City may have had a record-breaking blizzard on Saturday, but not a single snowflake fell on the farm.  Sarah had five friends over to celebrate her birthday.  Pasta, cake, movies, and air hockey for all. Daisy offered to drive us home on Sunday. We arrived home early enough so that Sarah could go […]

It’s at last gotten cold enough to have a little ice on the pond.  We had a relaxing MLK weekend.  We drove up Saturday morning in time for Sarah’s first indoor soccer practice with the Dutch Elite Soccer Academy in Milan.  On Saturday night, Jen and I ordered a pizza and watched The Big Short, […]

We had a lovely Christmas vacation at the farm, with highly variable weather (often unseasonably warm, as above, but it also snowed) and lots of visitors (Lew, Rinda, and Lewis, for Christmas; Erica and Geoff, for New Years; Lauren (Sarah’s babysitter-for-life), and her dog, Hamilton, for the weekend after New Year; and a drive-by Saturday lunch […]

The Rhinebeck Farmers’ Market operates year round, but I’d never stopped into the Town Hall where it spends the winter.  It looks about as you would expect.

Soon it will be Thanksgiving, which means it will be time for Hickory Nut Pie. We will have to take them on the road, as we’ll be spending Thanksgiving in Scottsdale, Arizona. I suppose people have traveled farther. Now that the leaves are down, you can see all sorts of interesting things up in the trees, […]

Sarah and her fellow Ravens fought mightily to keep the Philipstown Raptors from scoring, even resorting to this unusual defensive formation — but score the Raptors did, and the Ravens were unable to put one in the win column. Sarah certainly earned an A for effort. On Saturday we harvested our Brussels Sprouts and some apples, […]

We had a very beautiful weekend, with pleasant days and changing trees. If this was not the peak weekend for fall foliage, it wasn’t far off. Well, you get the picture.  On Friday night, though, we had our first frost of the year.  Jen and I had to pick all remaining vegetables from the garden, using […]

We are really quite high on our free-range apple population.  Jen gathered some more of the Bogmere Pippins and made them into a tarte tatin, the recipe for which can be found here.

We continue to find old apple and pear trees from the farm’s former life as an orchard.  The fruit they produce is not beautiful — and, in fact, not always tasty — but there is some high quality fruit out there. Jen is now able to reach such fruit thanks to our new Flexrake LRB190 Fruit Picker. Jen also tends […]

It is tomato season, which we’ve been celebrating with many colorful tomato salads.  From left to right are Brandywine, Cherokee Purple, Pineapple Hawaiian, Aunt Ruby’s German Green, and Sungold, all from Jen’s garden. Our weekend was truncated — cut in half, more or less — as a result of an away game against the Cold […]