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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 […]

Sarah had her first soccer game of the season on Saturday.  The Ravens (f/k/a Fireballs) played the Red Hook Storm.  Sarah played defense with gusto, élan, and vigor.  The Ravens fell to the Storm 2-1, but there wasn’t a moment when we doubted that the Ravens could win. Sarah and her friend Anna congratulated each […]

We had a splendid time at the 170th Dutchess County Fair. Sarah met a Doberman-colored bunny, while local matrons looked on in horror. Jen took to the air. I got the chance to bump Sarah. And vice versa. We triumphed in the culinary arts. (No, really, we killed it this year.) And, at the Miracle […]

I was awakened Saturday morning by this pileated woodpecker — not by his hammering away at the maple tree outside our bedroom window, but rather by the sound of wood chips falling on the hood of the car parked below. It’s just as well we had an early start.  We harvested peaches from our nano-orchard.  […]

We just finished a two-week vacation at the farm.  (Or, rather, I finished it.  Sarah and Jen continue to vacation.)  Here’s Sarah having a sip of water after hiking through Ferncliff Forest, just outside the village of Rhinebeck. It’s part of the old Astor estate.  Jen and I climbed the fire tower, which gives spectacular […]

This weekend, we took Sarah back to Hidden Valley Camp, in Freedom, Maine.  As is customary, she was promptly given a kitten. We once again stayed in Belfast, Maine, where they have lovely sunsets. We drove eight and a half (but who’s counting?) hours back to Rhinebeck, where black cap season is in full swing.  […]

The sun finally peeked out this afternoon at the end of a sleety MLK weekend. We made lots of soup: White Bean on Saturday and French Onion today.  Daisy was the happy beneficiary of two bones.